{"id":762,"date":"2018-02-20T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=762"},"modified":"2018-02-20T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T20:05:22","slug":"how-to-install-windows-rok-on-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/?p=762","title":{"rendered":"How To install Windows ROK on VMWARE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some time when you setup VMware Virtual environment with Windows 2016\/2012\/2008 ROK Data Center you might get error about Hypervisor not ready for ROK installation,<\/p>\n<p>This can happen because the VMware not presenting the ROK installation the true hardware which its running on. You canGet error like this :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-763\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SystemVerificationFailure-206x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"340\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SystemVerificationFailure-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/SystemVerificationFailure.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"site-canvas\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div id=\"divPrint\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-8 col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12\">\n<div id=\"ArticleBody\" class=\"top-offset-small top-offset-mini top-offset-10\">\n<div id=\"dvDynamicContent\">\n<blockquote><p>OR:<\/p>\n<pre>System verification Failure\r\n [English]\r\n This hypervisor is not prepared for the Reseller Option Kit(ROK) media install or you are trying to install the ROK media on a non-Dell system.\r\n To prepare the hypervisor for the ROK install, please follow the steps mentioned in the ROK document at <a class=\"atagcolor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/ostechsheets\">http:\/\/www.dell.com\/ostechsheets<\/a> and then try again\r\nPress OK to restart the virtual machine<\/pre>\n<p>The most simple solution I have found is to use <a href=\"https:\/\/winscp.net\/eng\/download.php\">WinSCP<\/a> connecting to the Datastore and the folder which the VM is running on, Download the VMX file (vm configuration file)<\/p>\n<p>and add at the last raw :<\/p>\n<p>Smbios.reflecthost = &#8220;TRUE&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-764\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios-Reflecthost-300x191.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"721\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios-Reflecthost-300x191.png 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios-Reflecthost-768x488.png 768w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios-Reflecthost.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 721px) 100vw, 721px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Save the file and upload it overwrite the existing vmx file, start the vm and the installation will continue !<\/p>\n<p>More information at :<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dell.com\/support\/article\/il\/en\/ilbsdt1\/sln306971\/dell-poweredge-how-to-install-windows-server-standard-rok-on-a-virtual-machine?lang=en\">http:\/\/www.dell.com\/support\/article\/il\/en\/ilbsdt1\/sln306971\/dell-poweredge-how-to-install-windows-server-standard-rok-on-a-virtual-machine?lang=en<\/a><\/p>\n<p>you can also try through Vsphere web Client 6.5 ver :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-765\" src=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios_gui-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios_gui-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios_gui-768x430.jpg 768w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios_gui-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios_gui-394x221.jpg 394w, https:\/\/itsimple.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/smbios_gui.jpg 1539w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Good Luck<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some time when you setup VMware Virtual environment with Windows 2016\/2012\/2008 ROK Data Center you might get error about Hypervisor not ready for ROK installation, This can happen because the VMware not presenting the ROK installation the true hardware which its running on. You canGet error like this : OR: System verification Failure [English] This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorials","category-virtualization","category-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itsimple.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}