VMwarewolf32-bit ODBC DSN for vSphere
When you get around to installing vSphere, if on a 64-bit Windows host in x86 compatibility mode, a 32-bit DSN is required for the database connection.
If a DSN has been set up through Start > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC) the vSphere installer won’t be able to use this DSN.
The 64-bit ODBC Administrator tool can be invoked from Control Panel to manage user DSNs and system DSNs that are used by 64-bit processes, but for 32-bit datasources, the 32-bit ODBC Administrator tool is used for Windows on Windows 64 (WOW64) processes.
To set up a 32-bit DSN launch the 32-bit version of the Data Source Administrator. It is located at:
%systemdrive%\Windows\SysWoW64\Odbcad32.exe
The vSphere installer will then be able to detect the DSN and continue the installation.
Please see Microsoft KB article http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/942976/en-us for more information.
If you get the error: DSN is pointing to a unsupported ODBC driver
then see KB article: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1015804
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May 5th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Looking at the supported OS for VC srv, 64 bit is not supported. I guess you could run VC svr on 2008 64 bit in capatibility mode but I am wondering why you would do so? Is 2008 64 bit in capatibility mode that much faster than 2008 32 bit?
May 11th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
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November 19th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
thank you so much. could not figure out why this wasn’t working!