I currently use VMware Fusion on the Mac and on occasion still use VMware Server and Player on Windows at home. Many months ago, after watching an episode of Hak5, I became aware that you can also run VMware ESXi 3.5 or 4.0 on a desktop. How awesome is that! At that time keeping my fingers crossed, I checked to see if either of my existing desktops was capable of running ESXi. Luckily, my Asus P5B motherboard was supported. Check the Unofficial VMware ESX Server Whitebox HCL to see if your hardware is supported.
The only hiccup I ran into was the onboard network card was not supported. I had to purchase an Intel 1000 pro GT. The rest was easy! I had ESXi running off a USB stick with a hard drive added and dedicated to ESXi. I created a few Windows 2003 servers....success!
Unfortunately the only problem was I used this machine on a daily basis for other things. As a result, this ESXi server was hardly ever used. I decided the time has come for me to create my own dedicated ESXi server.
Related Posts:
Part 1 The Time Has Come
Part 2 Running ESXi on VMware Fusion
Part 3 Building My ESXi Server
Part 4 Installing ESXi 4 on a USB Stick
Part 5 Installing vSphere Client on Windows
Part 6 Updating ESXi using vSphere Host Update Utility
Part 7 Browsing the VMware ESXi Datastore
Part 8 WinSCP to the Rescue
Part 9 Creating a VM
Part 10 Downloading a Virtual Machine
***Updated March 26th 2010
I have decided to continue the series with at least the following:
Part 11 Running vSphere Client from Ubuntu
Part 12 Running vSphere Client from Mac OS
Part 13 Adding/Removing a VM to ESXi
Part 14 Export in ESXi
Part 15 Deploying OVF Templates
Part 16 Adding a License Key
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