I didn't think these worked with ESX, but a couple Google searches turned up people reportedly using the nvidia 'forcedeth' driver in ESX. The new Mini has an nvidia ethernet controller. ![]() I have had mixed results with Broadcom NICs (which are supposed to be supported). Probably the biggest question mark for running ESXi on a Mini is the ethernet controller. The old versions of ESX were picky about the storage controller (originally only supporting SCSI, and improving IDE/SATA support in ESX 3.5 and more in ESX 4.0). I have also installed ESXi on my old whitebox x86 server with a single Core Duo CPU, and several single CPU (quad core) systems at work. I run servers of all vintages in an ESX development lab, one of the older has only one single core CPU (with hyperthreading). ![]() You will need a Windows system to manage ESXi afterwards, since Virtual Infrastructure Client is Windows only. Worst case, you waste 5 minutes registering with VMware for your free serial and a CD to burn the ESXi images to. People have reported great success running ESXi on computers with one physical processor (Core 2 Duo or Quad). I didn't leave it on long enough to see if ESXi could address all 8GB of my RAM, but it did install. It did, however, for the most part install and run just fine on one of my internal disk drives (SATA). Note that I've tried installing ESXi on my Mac Pro via burning the ESXi image to a bootable USB stick, and the Mac Pro refused to boot from that (one of the nice things about ESXi is that it will run from a USB stick on supported systems). ![]() If you want to use any of the features that require two or more VMware ESX 3i-enabled systems, then you've got to pay for them.ĮSXi supports IDE, SATA, and SCSI storage. ![]() It comes with a FREE license supporting unlimited CPU's and *everything* you need to run on a SINGLE computer.
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