pkaramol
pkaramol

Reputation: 19422

ESXI - Invalid configuration for device '5'

I am trying to create a new VM on ESXI 6.0 using a Windows Server 2012 R2 .iso file.

After selecting all VM options and when finalizing the creation, the process fails with the following extremely informative message:

Failed - Invalid configuration for device '5'.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

My only concern is that ESXI by default does not offer the very specific option of selecting Windows 2012 R2 Server as OS (check attached image) - so I dont' know if this is causing the failure.

(I am selecting just Windows Server 2012, without the R2 since it doesn't exist)

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 7976

Answers (1)

Dmitry
Dmitry

Reputation: 21

Device 5 stands for IDE controller.

I managed to solve the similar issue by creating the VM without attached HDD and SCSI controller (WinServ 2016 in my case). Then you can try to attach a HDD and Controller lately.

Upvotes: 1

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