For the last year or so I’ve been running windows 7 under ESXi and due to a few issues I’ve had to re-install more than once. Each time I go through the install process I seem to bump into a problem with the harddrive configuration for the VM that causes the install process to take significantly longer (we’re talking days, not hours…) The problem is that ESXi defaults to a SCSI harddisk and it would seem Windows 7 much prefers the IDE disk. A quick switch of disks and my installs are back to normal speeds.
I figured I’d dump this here so I’d have a place to look next time I do this and incase someone else is having the same issues.
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