Cisco USC-C210-M2 will only detect esxi flash drive install if I boot

[lukutu]

I'm about to go insane here. I've installed esxi 6.7u1 on my c210-m2, however the bios only detects the flash drive as bootable if I boot the installer ISO first and reboot. I've tried both legacy & uefi bios and no dice, doesn't appear in the BIOS as a bootable device unless I boot the installer first. BIOS/CIMC/firmware all updated.

[Kirk J]

What storage controller are you using to connect the supported SSD to?

https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/servers-unified-computing/ucs-c-series-rack-servers/spec_sheet_c17-644230.pdf

Thanks,

Kirk...

[Christian210876]

Hello Lukutu,

M2 servers are quite old. look at the EOS and Hardware Compliance List (HCL)

As I see it it is only supporting up to version 5.5 not even any updates and not even version 6 of ESXi.