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When finished, the installer will request that you remove the installation disc and then reboot. If you have data you need to get off of this drive, hit the Escape key to back out at this point.ħ. NOTE: Repartitioning will wipe everything on the drive. You’re also warned that the disk will be repartitioned.
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The installer then confirms that you want to install using the options you’ve selected. This is the user account that you’ll initially use to log into your ESXi server.Īt this point, the installer took a few minutes to scan the machine again.Ħ.
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When prompted, I set a password for the root account. I selected US Default for the keyboard layout.ĥ. I selected the drive I wanted and hit the Enter key.Ĥ.

Once scanning completed, I was asked to select the drive I wanted to install on.
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I hit F11 to accept the license agreement.Īt this point, the installer took a few minutes to scan the machine.ģ. When asked to begin the installation process, I hit the Enter key.Ģ. Once selected, the ESXi installer boot process began.ġ. Once booted from the CD, I was asked to select the ESXi 5.1 installer. NOTE: All screenshots of this process are from ESXi running inside of VMWare Fusion, but the Mac Mini install process was identical. The CD showed up with EFI Boot and Windows partitions, so I selected EFI Boot. When rebooting, I held down the Option key to allow the various boot drive options to appear, then selected the CD. From there, I used Disk Utility to burn the ISO file to a CD.įrom there, I hooked up an Apple USB SuperDrive to the Mini, popped the newly-burned CD in and rebooted the Mini. My next action was to copy the ISO file from my Windows VM back into my Mac. Once finished, the newly-created ISO was available in my account’s Documents directory as an ISO file named. I wanted to do this, so I clicked the Yes button. That was fine, so I clicked the OK button.ĮSXi-Customizer went to work and prompted me about replacing the ethernet driver. I received a warning that the (U)EFI-bootable ISO could not be further customized. Checked off the Create (U)EFI-bootable ISO (ESXi 5.0 only) checkbox, in order to enable the new ISO to boot the Mini. In the Select the working directory (needs to be on a local NTFS-formatted drive): section, selected the Documents directory of my account.ĥ. In the Select an OEM.tgz, a VIB file or an Offline Bundle: section, selected tg3-3.123cv50.1-offline_bundle-841079.zip (corresponds to the Broadcom ethernet driver.)Ĥ. In the Select the original VMWare ESXi ISO: section, selected VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64.isoģ. Launched ESXi-Customizer by double-clicking on the ESXi-Customizer batch file script.Ģ. Once I had the VMWare installer files downloaded, I then used ESXi-Customizer to slipstream using the following procedure:ġ. What happened? Everything installed fine, but networking didn’t work.įor the second round, I started up a Windows 7 VM and downloaded a copy of ESXi-Customizer as well as a copy of the following files from VMWare’s site:
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The way I found out that this driver is needed is that I first tried installing the stock ESXi 5.1 install without slipstreaming the driver into the installer ISO. VMware ESXi 5.0 Driver CD for Broadcom NetXtreme I Gigabit Ethernet including support for 5717/5718/5719/5720 Specifically, you will need to add the following ethernet driver to the ESXi install ISO file:

It works, but getting it running will take some work. One thing to keep in mind is that ESXi is not officially supported on the Mac Mini. After some work, I now have ESX 5.1 running on my Mini Server. The latest available version as of this date is ESXi 5.1, so I decided to install that. I have a 2011 Mac Mini Server, which is fortunate because setting up ESXi on that Mini model has been well-documented in a number of places.
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I hadn’t previously set up a dedicated hypervisor, so I wanted to learn how to do that. I’ve been doing a lot of work with VMWare Fusion on my Mac and could have gone that way, but I wanted to do the virtualization with VMWare’s free ESXi software. One thing I’ve wanted to do for a while is virtualizing my home server setup, as well as making it easier to stand up (and take down) test servers as needed.
