Comments on: The Mini ESXi 4 Portable Server

By: Eniot

Eniot — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 09:54:00 +0000

I think you talk about PRO/1000 PT dual gigabit PCI-E ?

By: Eniot

Eniot — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 08:59:00 +0000

thanks for reply,

But I have another one question for you :
Do you try to use the main bord NIC ?
Do you thinks this drivers can work with the DH57JG :
http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2194

By: Jon Owings

Jon Owings — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:09:00 +0000

Sorry for the delay it is a Intel Pro ET Dual Gigabit

By: Eniot

Eniot — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:57:00 +0000

Hello,

What is the model of yout dual Gb PCIe card ?

Thanks you for reply and your post.

By: Jon Owings

Jon Owings — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:43:00 +0000

I may be able to rebuild the ESXi on it this week. I will also post back about the VT support. I can run ESXi inside of it, so that leads me to believe VT-x is working.

By: Pete042

Pete042 — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 15:02:00 +0000

Thanks for the post, We have a VMware Academy that I use virtual esxi hosts running on a vSphere cluster.
With the introduction of vSPhere4.1 there are a few limitations that I need to work around with some of the labs.

I’ve been investigating a very similar configuration as yours as an option. Does the DH57JG bios allow for enabling VT-x? The only information I can find is that it does not allow for VT-d, but does not mention VT-x.
This is one of the issues I’m attempting to resolve since the bios for VMs does not have an option for VT.

Regarding the integrated nic, have you attempting the reconfiguring of the esx install image:
http://www.vm-help.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=2194

I plan to either use this mb or one from Supermico: X8SIL, which is a very good solution just a bit more expensive for the complete build.

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By: Jon Owings

Jon Owings — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 13:59:24 +0000

I’ll try that out. Thanks for the tip!

By: Jarett Kulm

Jarett Kulm — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:41:34 +0000

You can get the onboard NICs working in ESXI by injecting the drivers. This is a handy script to do it all to a USB stick for you: http://code.google.com/p/mkesxiaio/ The drivers for the Intel 82578DC which is on that motherboard are available within the Community OEM.TGZ pack. Just copy it to the custom-oem folder that the script creates when it asks if you have any other files to add.

I have had to do this for a few of my homegrown or lower end esxi systems.

By: Jon Owings

Jon Owings — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:47:23 +0000

Sean, I know you love it.
I still remember unboxing that workstation you built back at USC.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:47:00 +0000

Sean, I know you love it.
I still remember unboxing that workstation you built back at USC.