Problems getting Prime LMS to start up

Question

Just got the Cisco Prime Lan NMS software. Getting this error when I try to turn up the appliance after I deployed it in ESXi -
Power On virtual machine:Failed to power on VM.
See the error stack for details on the cause of this problem.
Time: 7/16/2013 9:32:26 AM
Target: Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution
ESXi: ucs-c1b4
Error Stack
Failed to power on VM.
Could not power on VM : CPU min outside valid range.
Group host/user: Invalid CPU allocation requested for VM vmm0:Cisco_Prime_LAN_Management_Solution. (min: 4520 mhz, max: -1, minLimit: -1, shares: -3)
SharedArea: Unable to find 'testSharedAreaPtr' in SHARED_PER_VM_VMX area.
This is being deployed on a Cisco UCS B200 M3 with 128GB of ram. There is nothing else deployed on this blade. I elected for thin provisioning on disk storage.
Wouldnt expect that I would have to tweak the install any.
Suggestions ?

Answer 1

5.1 is not supported - only 4.1 and 5.0 (reference). That's most likely the root cause.
I didn't have any specific information for Prime LMS OVA but even though some folks have reported success with Prime Infrastructure 1.3 on 5.1, the product managers told me at Cisco Live that 5.1 would not be supported until PI 2.0. If they ever release an LMS 4.3 (TBD), it might have ESX 5.1 support.