ACTIVATE EXTRA NIC IN VMWARE ESXI 5 MAC
My mac mini runs a common linux distribution with xen enabled kernel – but that is far away from vmware´s work i run the very very cheap but uncertified Dell T105 tower server (sometimes available 150€) & boot from a 1gb usb stick and the guests reside on centralized NFS storage connected via multiple gigabit ethernet links – cheap, great performance and imho best for setting up a vmware lab or non mission critical servers Reply already the wacky LAN card was not supported in nearly any common linux distribution until a few months ago. I havent compared the minis hardware with the compatibilty list (which is very annoying, since you have to find out seperatly which hardware runs on the servers listed)īut i seriously doubt that it is compatible. but you probably won´t get any support from vmware in case of troubles. I haven´t tried it myself yet, but have a bit expirience in running esx on uncertified hardware – if you make sure to use common hardware which is typicly also used in the (low end) servers listed on vmwares compatibilty list, it works pretty charming. I was trying to find out of boreness if someone did it yet and found your blog. That’s two Mac Minis running VMware ESXi 5, a cheap $250 Netgear NAS handling the storage duties for shared storage, and a few other pieces of unrelated tech gear. Presto – my Ikea datacenter comes to life! My Ikea Datacenter WiFi doesn’t, but that’s okay – I wouldn’t even run a lab off that. The USB keyboard works, video out (via HDMI!) works, and the onboard Ethernet wired network card works. These ISOs work for my Apple Mac Mini 2011 (5.1):ĭownload the ISO, burn it to CD, and boot from it.
It has to be vSphere ESX or ESXi, not VMware Fusion or Parallels, because my clients all use ESXi and I wanted to be able to do things like VMotion and Storage VMotion.
I’d always wanted a small VMware vSphere 5 (ESXi) lab farm up and running, and I wanted to use Apple Mac Minis just for compactness and the silence. Great news – Pedro Costa has got a working solution! Apple Mac Mini 2010, 2011, and 2012 models all boot a patched version of VMware ESX 5.0: VMware ESXi 5 Running on an Apple Mac Mini
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