Install Esxi On Sata Disk On Controller' title='Install Esxi On Sata Disk On Controller' />VMWare ESXi 5. HP Pro. Liant Gen. Introduction. In this tutorial we will set up a VMWare ESXi 5. Testlab for serving virtual machines on a small scale server system from Hewlett Packard, a Pro. Liant Microserver G8 aka Gen. If you are currently using DSM 5. DSM 5. 2. If you are doing a fresh install of DSM 6. Two methods are presented below. I strongly advise you to take the second variant presented. The first one, that should work ended in a Red Screen of Death Hardware modifications. As the basic machine is already a nice one, but not powerful enough equipped with hardware, I upgraded the server with additional components directly when buying the Gen. Therefore I went to the smallest available model of the HP Pro. Liant Micro. Server Gen. Install Esxi On Sata Disk On Controller' title='Install Esxi On Sata Disk On Controller' />G1. T model. I bought a G1. T and in addition the following hardware 1x Intel Xeon E3 1. L v. 2, a quad core processor 2,5. GHz, Sockel 1. 15. L3 Cache, 4. 5 Watt, BX8. E3. 12. 65. L2 and a turbo frequency of up to 3. GHz. 2x Kingston KTH PL3. E8. G DDR3 RAM with each 8 GB capacity 1. MHz, PC3 1. 28. 00 and ECC2x Seagate Barracuda ST3. DM0. 01 SATA III hard drives with each 3. TB 7. 20. 0rpm, 6. MB Cache1x USB thumb drive found one in the drawerThe main pros of this server are It includes a cheap but fine hardware hd controller, a HP Smart Array B1. K IOPS. The form factor It is in fact an Ultra Micro Tower. Less than 1. 50 W power consumption even with four HDDs, it will stay with less than 1. W Two 1. Gb Ethernet ports and one extra dedicated i. LO 4 network port. Internal micro sd and usb port to use them as additional hard drive ports. I will not cover the hardware installation here in detail, but just link to other pages that mentioned working CPU Ram upgrades. The Professionals Theme Tune. Up to today me havent seen anyone who managed to have 3. GB of RAM working on the G8 server which would give a nice opportunity for the hosting. But I am quite sure with a wider distribution of 1. GB ECC memory module one will give it a try and make it work. It might be that HP will provide some kind of BIOS update to officially support more total memory. See the following pages for more information about the servers Additional preparatory work. Configure HP Integrated Lights Out i. LOYou should set up i. LO before the actual installation process, as this will make your further server life easier and of course because this tutorial makes use of i. LO. This does not mean, you cannot go without the i. LO, but I suggest you to give it a try. Just check my previous post about i. LO on the HP Pro. Liant Microserver Gen. LO. Download the VMware ISO image. Download the modified current version of ESXi from the VMWare web page. You will be forwarded from HPs to VMwares web page. You have to login or create a login during this process. The ISOs name should be similar to VMware ESXi 5. Update. 1 1. 74. VMware ESXi is the industryleading, purposebuilt baremetal hypervisor. ESXi installs directly onto your physical server enabling it to be partitioned into multiple. Click on FirmwareUpdate here and install all available updates. This process will take a while. Creating disk array. In the HP Smart Storage Administrator. Customizing your ESXi install with oem. ESXi to customize the installation. With this file you can replace default files that ESXi uses. HP 5. 7. 4. 2. 7 Jun. Upgrading to latest available firmware. Soul Calibur 1 For Pc. My server was delivered with a 1. HP Intelligent Provisioning Online update. The current version, while writing this tutorial is already v. Open the Remote Console, found under Remote Console Java Integrated Remote Console Java IRC, that provides remote access to the system through i.