× Please check, if you have performance problems after installing to ESXI 6. Introduction In this tutorial we will set-up a VMWare ESXi 5.5 as a Testlab for serving virtual machines on a small-scale server system from Hewlett Packard, a ProLiant Microserver G8 aka Gen8. 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 Gen8.

Why doesn't the Internal USB port boot ESXi 6 on my Microserver Gen8? The goal is to run VMware ESXi and the OP wants to install it on a USB key. Browse other questions tagged vmware-esxi hp-proliant usb-boot or ask your own question. 2 years, 7 months ago.

Therefore I went to the smallest available model of the HP ProLiant MicroServer Gen8 servers, a G1610T model. I bought a G1610T and in addition the following hardware: • 1x Intel Xeon E3-1265L v2, a quad-core processor (2,5GHz, Sockel 1155, L3 Cache, 45 Watt, BX5L2) and a turbo frequency of up to 3.5 GHz • 2x Kingston KTH-PL316E/8G DDR3-RAM with each 8 GB capacity (1600MHz, PC3-12800 and ECC!) • 2x Seagate Barracuda ST3000DM001 SATA III hard drives with each 3TB (7200rpm, 64MB Cache) • 1x USB thumb drive (found one in the drawer) The main pros of this server are: • It includes a cheap but fine hardware hd controller, a with a throughput of 91.4K IOPS. • The form factor! – It is in fact an Ultra Micro Tower. • Less than 150 W power consumption – even with four HDDs, it will stay with less than 100 W! • Two 1Gb Ethernet ports and one extra dedicated iLO 4 network port.

Aplikasi Stok Barang Pengeluaran Pemasukan Berbasis Php here. • 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. Up to today me haven´t seen anyone who managed to have 32 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 16 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: • with a lot of (German) information about hardware compatibility • on b3n.org • A good overview of Additional preparatory work Configure HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) You should set-up iLO before the actual installation process, as this will make your further server life easier and of course because this tutorial makes use of iLO. This does not mean, you cannot go without the iLO, but I suggest you to give it a try. Just check my previous post about „“ if you need any help regarding iLO.

Download the VMware ISO image. You will be forwarded from HPs to VMwares web page. Canon Ir2016 Photocopier Driver Download here.  You have to login or create a login during this process. The ISOs name should be similar to: VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-Update1-1746018-HP-5.74.27-Jun2014.iso Upgrading to latest available firmware My server was delivered with a 1.3 version of HP Intelligent Provisioning Online update. The current version, while writing this tutorial is already v.

1.5, so we will cover this firmware upgrade here as well. Open the Remote Console, found under „Remote Console“ >„Java Integrated Remote Console“ (Java IRC), that provides remote access to the system through iLO. Mounting media • Confirming on Step 4 will install the VMWare ESXi Server on your HP system. This will take some minutes to complete. • After the installation the server will be rebooted. This will take additional >three minutes. You can stay connected to the iLO that time!

• The server will restart directly into the ESXi Server, displaying an IP address where it is available through. This is, how it should work! – In my case, this way wasn´t working properly, after rebooting, I ended on a! So I went for the second variant, which is explained in the next section. Installation of VMWare ESXi 5.5 (Method 2, working solution!) If you encounter errors during the first method, please check the following variant, that might be even better, as you are actual performing a manual installation. Choosing your boot device In fact there are several ways to boot the installation media from, I will just outline two ways to boot from.

• You may connect an USB thumb drive with the installation media preloaded as explained on the very short article „„. Just plug it in. • Choose to add the.iso file as a virtual drive to the iLO remote console.

Go to “Virtual Drives” >“Image File CD-Rom/DVD” >Select the installation.iso file you just downloaded before. Accept the EULA • Now we have to select a disk to install the ESXi System to. There a listed two types of storage devices. Local and Remote ones. The locals include some volumes: • HP Logical Volume with 2.73 TiB (on the Raid controller) • USB 2.0 Flash Disk – The internal USB thumb drive with 3.73 GiB where we will install the ESXi to. • An HP iLO device „LUN 00 Media 0“, that is our virtual CD-ROM drive, we mounted the ISO to.