Symptoms
Installing an ESXiESX host on HP Proliant BL servers fails. When accepting the licensing agreement, you see the error: lvmdriver failed to load On the Service Console of the ESXi/ESX host, you see an error similar to:vmkctl.hostctlexception: unable to load module /usr/lib/vmware/vmkmod/vmfs3: failure You see this issue on these servers: HP BL 685c G7 HP BL 680c G7 HP BL 495c G5 HP BL 465c G7 HP BL 460c G7 HP BL 490c G7 HP DL 380p G8 HP BL 460c G8 HP DL 360 G8
Resolution
This issue is resolved in ESXi/ESX 4.1. For more information about this version, see the ESXi/ESX 4.1 Release Notes. You can download the latest release from the VMware Download Center. For more information, see Support Communication - Customer Advisory from HP Support. For information on models that require the custom CD or a customer created custom installer CD, see the HP Proliant Servers VMware Support Matrix. Note: The preceding links were correct as of November 6, 2013. If you find a link is broken, provide feedback and a VMware employee will update the link.
Related Information
ESXi/ESX ホストを HP Proliant BL サーバにインストールすると、「lvmdriver failed to load」というエラーで失敗する在 HP Proliant BL 服务器上安装 ESXi/ESX 主机失败，并显示以下错误：lvmdriver 加载失败
