VMware on a Raspberry Pi!?!?! (ESXi Install)

It's crazy...you can install VMware ESXi on a Raspberry Pi!!!! Do you need a Raspberry Pi? I'm giving away 2, ENTER HERE:
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0:00 ⏩ Intro
1:56 ⏩ What do you need?
3:04 ⏩ Update your Raspberry Pi
4:37 ⏩ Get your SD Card ready for VMWare
7:26 ⏩ Create the VMWare installer
8:41 ⏩ Install VMWare ESXi on your Pi
14:13 ⏩ Create your first VM!!
20:31 ⏩ Add more storage
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--Prep your MicroSD Card for VMware--
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--Create the VMWare Installer--
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ENTER TO WIN a Raspberry Pi: bit.ly/31Ctafc Buy a Raspberry Pi: geni.us/BmCeEgp Blog Post: networkchuck.com/vmware-raspberrypi/ 0:00 ⏩ Intro 1:56 ⏩ What do you need? 3:04 ⏩ Update your Raspberry Pi 4:37 ⏩ Get your SD Card ready for VMWare 7:26 ⏩ Create the VMWare installer 8:41 ⏩ Install VMWare ESXi on your Pi 14:13 ⏩ Create your first VM!! 20:31 ⏩ Add more storage SUPPORT NETWORKCHUCK --------------------------------------------------- ➡️Become a KZbin Member: bit.ly/join_networkchuck 👊Join thisisIT: bit.ly/thisisitio 👊 ☕OFFICIAL NetworkChuck Coffee: NetworkChuck.coffee ---What do you need?--- Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB or 8GB) -Get the kit here: geni.us/BmCeEgp 2 USB Flash Drives -A small one: (16GB or smaller): geni.us/DJdC -A big one: (64GB or larger): geni.us/UAoi3H Coffee (optional, but it really helps): networkchuck.coffee ---Update your Raspberry Pi--- Raspberry Pi Imager: bit.ly/3mwqh7Z UPDATE COMMANDS: sudo rpi-eeprom-update sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a ---Prep your MicroSD Card for VMware--- Things you need to download: Latest Raspberry Pi Firmware: bit.ly/2HpIaG6 UEFI Raspberry Pi Firmware: bit.ly/3jota8D ---Create the VMWare Installer--- VMWare Installer ISO: bit.ly/2J0bSCn Tools to create the VMware installer -(WINDOWS) Rufus: bit.ly/3jvIVKV -Etcher (mac/linux): bit.ly/35w8p5X

[@bruvGHOUL]

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[@sandymango]

I’ve tried entering but it states 0 entries.

[@henrykudos1407]

How long have you been into IT? You're just too good. It's intimidating 😞😞I want to be good with IT too. I'll appreciate your advice/guidance

[@lohfrankdvd]

@Networkchuck Would be nice to win something.

[@maxoverridemax]

Disclaimer you don't really have to cut the pie up.

[@Matando]

Bro.... I know the raspis are cheap, but watching you cut it up like that hurt.

[@jorensc]

He said on his Twitter it was broken already so

[@Matando]

@@AnilArya51 I'm sorry. That's very irresponsible of your parents. Please, don't ever get discouraged

[@AnilArya51]

@@Matando actually my mother says "do what you love" and I feel like my dad is a psychopath : ( bored with hours of lecture basically on no topic maybe because he is drunk Idk

[@diegodeveloper9272]

Men... thats sad, but dont give up on your dreams. I hope things get better for you soon.

[@AnilArya51]

@@diegodeveloper9272 getting worse every day, can't change faith

[@MrMartinZockt]

No raspberry pi were harmed in the making of this video. The sliced one was a professional actor. Please don't try this at home!

[@Zerpentsa6598]

CGI. You can cut up PCB so easily.

[@solelgammal]

Yeah

[@3asyrider75]

🤣

[@thesnscorner269]

Lol

[@MrMartinZockt]

​@Robert Slackware No, a pi2 has no wifi and the SoC has no heat spreader. It's minimum a pi3b+. But you can see on the silkscreen of the pcb it is a pi4. Also 2x mini HDMI and USB-C is only on the pi4.

[@ballsislife6018]

You make me want to learn everything! Your energy, and enthusiasm to share information and teach people for free is something special! Much love

[@chinesepopsongs00]

Each coffee break this guy gets more hyper, he is very good at explaining things though. Love his way of making videos.

[@ElTatiMar]

Did you really sliced a rasp?! DUDE WHY?!

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

It doesn't even look like one of the older ones. I could /maybe/ understand if it's a defunct one that's released the magic smoke, or was so old that it just didn't measure up any more and you'd gotten your money's worth out of it and then some. But that looks like the new one with the usb-c power port. That's just wrong.

[@daniiboii6213]

Did he really just ruin the edge on a nice spyderco knife by cutting an abrasive material like a silicon circuit board ???

[@ElTatiMar]

@@TheLukemcdaniel you can always use it for parts, that's the magic of electronics

[@TheLukemcdaniel]

@@ElTatiMar I don't fully disagree, but not everyone has the tools/skills to replace those surface mount components. And there's little need for that for most of us. But a fully working pi can always be repurposed.

[@ethhacks2070]

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[@pPod1231]

This guy could get me super hyped about anything. Next video could be about algebra n I’d want to learn it. That’s a real gift.

[@kelvezu1585]

I really love this kind of content where the creator has deeply in-love on what he does.

[@Sc0rphionx]

I really love when naive people believe the industry standards

[@imthew6rst596]

Man actually cut up a raspberry pi

[@LampJustin]

He must seek medical advice!

[@rift9891]

That what i wanted to say🤣

[@Impact_Creativity]

That's sad

[@amyslivets]

It was virtualized action 😅

[@Ryosukekun21]

Yea I cringed as well

[@dadnumber1140]

One day your channel is going to blow up. You should have way more subscribers for the effort you put in. Love watching your videos you do super cool projects and extremely well spoken.

[@scottjand]

It kind of got famous! www.raspberrypi.org/blog/get-vmware-on-raspberry-pi/

[@3asyrider75]

Amazing tutorials, your articulate it in such a simple way that anyone can get their hands on the basics for IT administration. Most of us are hands on and not great at explaining complex IT implementations in laymen’s terms. You would be a great high level manager or CTO with your level of communication. Unfortunately I haven’t had the luxury of working with IT managers or CTOs that can communicate effectively....

[@jdomian]

Chuck, this was a great tutorial. I followed everything and it worked out great. From one IT professional to another... every video experience I have had on your channel is energetic, easy to follow and also entertaining. Thanks again for the great work!

[@bhushanlingamoorthy2934]

Oh my goodness! You massacred that poor pi and now I'm traumatized for life.

[@subtitles1492]

True. It made me want to UNSUBSCRIBE, almost.

[@zipp4everyone263]

Now this IS amazing. I remember using Esxi for a final exam and it blew my mind. Having used Virtual box etc for a while i've gotten used to the performance drop from having a virtualiser ontop of a fully fledged os. Going to ESXI you dont use that bottom layer OS as the ESXI is, in it self, an OS where you can host tons of virtual machines with snapshot capabilities, trye hibernations and offline->live switching. The only reason to why this doesnt blow some peoples brains is due to them not knowing about it or not understanding it. Back in the day you basically had to use server hardware to really use ESXI.

[@tkan2653]

the introduction explaination is so clear

[@oldanalog_synth9244]

It's a big fun to show your video, thank you!

[@TJSSheppard]

Love your videos Chuck. Weasel was written by VMware as a replacement for Red Hat Linux's Anaconda installer and is used for installing ESX 4. It’s been a very long time since I’ve heard it mentioned.

[@user-kd7fw4hn4h]

Btw. Etcher is a cross platform tool, means you can use it on Windows, Linux and Mac

[@VioletGiraffe]

It's just a bit heavy, so I do prefer Rufus for Windows. By "heavy" I mean that it's an electron app that weighs something like 250 MB on the hard drive, and the main Etcher executable is a self-unpacking archive that extracts these 250 MB into your Temp folder EVERY SINGLE TIME you run Etcher. Not SSD-friendly!

[@user-kd7fw4hn4h]

@@VioletGiraffe By that what u are saying, you cannot use VS-Code or the Raspbery Pi Imager or any other modern Electron based Apps anymore. I think it doesnt matter if your SSD dies because of Windows continuously writing things onto it or some Electron App getting used. Please correct me if Im wrong.

[@leeloomultipass7994]

Thanks Chuck! I did this today. 51 yr old IT student, I graduate soon with an ATA degree. This was challenging but really fun.

[@HumairDawood]

Like your style and how you make this not boring at all. Will be learning a lot from you. Thanks mate

[@ELFrederick]

Fun project. Use another PI to build a small NAS, and then use the NAS as storage for the twins. Practice VMotion between the PIs and demonstrate how to move OS for High Avail while patching ESXi from VSphere.

[@stuartkelly400]

Just followed this vid, so simple! I was going to buy a server so I could practice backup and replication, no need now!! Great Video Thankyou!!

[@appunnyraj]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIqVoqSKmJ2gitE

[@KenPryor]

This is so cool! Thanks for such a great tutorial. I'm thinking of doing this now, once I get a new RPi ordered.

[@kainedev0167]

Like you I have used VMWare for 13+ years and never thought about this. This is awesome!!

[@luismejia857]

I'll take a slice of that pi 😎👍 Awesome video!

[@Casperr123]

Amazing ! I would've never thought about this being possible. Its cool esx has an arm version of hyp.

[@appunnyraj]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIqVoqSKmJ2gitE

[@Paavy]

Just did this, so cool, can't wait to play more with it!

[@t0ddbak3r]

Dude, thanks for this video! I've been trying to sort out some sort of setup at home to do my school labs on and was going to repurpose a couple of my PI 3B+ media boxes and maybe throw some VM's on my gaming pc to do so, but I just caught this video and it's gonna save me a ton of hassle and will be perfect for what I need. I just got a new PI 4B 8GB today thanks to your recommendation and may add a second down the road if I need to expand further or start poking around with clustering. By the way, thanks for putting these videos out and being a way for those looking to tinker and learn to find the knowledge they need to help them do so (and not have to mortgage their homes to get it!).

[@Viking8888]

I love your teaching skills Chuck. Your genuine excitement is infectious! Winning a RPi 4 8GB would be so AWESOME, seeing as my only pi died about a week ago. Plugged in my mini hdmi to hdmi cable to my monitor and started smelling that "lovely" smell of burning electronics on both ends. 🤮 Fried the Pi and my monitors hdmi port is now dead. I hate it when crap happens!

[@potatofypotatofy7772]

is that your fault ,claim your warranty.

[@Viking8888]

@@potatofypotatofy7772 I was able to get it replaced.

[@jesse2450]

I’m just getting into networking stuff and I’m lovin the videos you’re putting out man looking forward to trying this out

[@eeandersen]

Thanks for the tutorial. You took implementation to full execution and that is appreciated. I'll excuse cutting one up 'cause you did such a good job in preparing the video. Besides I'm sure it was just a 3D printed mock-up anyway.

[@JeroenL111]

Chuck, I like your enthusiasm! Super!

[@cvazquez743]

Chuck thanks for the video! I have a question where did you install vcenter? or where do you recommend running it?

[@DwightManAF]

Wow. My brain his hurting, just thinking of what I can do with this one. Thanks

[@Devillman90]

Great Stuff! I really appreciate the quality of those videos. I used VM many times but never had to play with the infrastructure behind them. I am about to buy 2 more Rpis and i'm gonna try that some day.

[@gavinmessick3715]

The enthusiasm is always great almost forgot to subscribe to you

[@adamwade5612]

Thanks for the upload.

[@appunnyraj]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIqVoqSKmJ2gitE

[@ALXTheMaster]

Chuck!! I did all steps right but my rpi boot up with a green undercore in the middle of the screen, right after the rainbow pic. Any advice??

[@ravenmirabeau951]

Got the same screen...checking my steps and will try again after it's downloaded again.

[@mgran3724]

Had the same issue on my RPI 4b 8GB. Changed from 16 to gpu_mem=32 in the config.txt. That did it for me.

[@ALXTheMaster]

@@mgran3724 bro thank you!! this worked for me! 100% approved

[@will2see]

@@mgran3724 YES, YES!!! Thank you!

[@daviefrew1]

I hjave tried everything but I'm stick with the green cursor thing - gonna fling it lol. Any ideas Please ?

[@gimmedatcake4785]

Just set my up my ESXI. Great tutorial!

[@martinvincent4578]

I learn so much listening at your channel. Thank you so much....

[@David-mw8vr]

that broke my heart watching that pi break apart......

[@gtxg.]

it was already broken

[@GreyRock100]

"I call these 'The Twins' and they're awesome." That's what she said

[@LordOfWizardurl]

Lmfao

[@abinyahwalker7034]

I wasn’t sure about watching your videos because they seemed like click bate, but after watching your ESXi video I can say you’re legit! You are accurate, entertaining and easy to watch. Thank you, instant subscriber.

[@YouTubeCompilations2023]

You're boosting my dopamine every video I watch 😅

[@MrRobot222]

Runweasel is the name of the ESXI installer. :) Loving your videos, just signed up for This Is IT too.

[@AdamTheGuitarist]

Installer or rather the boot loader?

[@JoaoSilva-gs5jb]

Do a XCP-NG and Xen Orchestra setup! Try running Jellyfin!

[@AbdullaMadhih]

Wow. Thank you. I didn’t know we could do this. You deserve a subscription.

[@mfdvd2415]

Thank you so much for this great video Chuck. I will follow the advices you explain in it. Best regards.

[@GundamExia88]

Does it do vCenter and can you show us vMotion on next video? Btw, Great video! Keep up the good job!

[@presidentbusiness1rst]

Love your content I just entered fingers crossed!!! 🤞🏼

[@NetworkChuck]

Thank you and good luck!

[@cyberghostanon7758]

Love this. I want to see more Raspberry Pi projects like brewing mixing coffee.

[@smeagol92055]

This is so exciting! I'm trying to build an offline recovery center with an AI that can reference whatever file you need and dump it to a thumbdrive. So far from your channel I've gained a ton of inspiration and with this VMware solution, I think my vision is just a little bit closer to being realized. Thank you for being you!

[@ketatgenhorst]

The twins, is that type of stackable case a purchased kit or are those things you printed? I'd like to order some of those. I have stacks of pi to organize.

[@mohamedalsayed677]

Chuck: here's how to install vmware on a raspberry pi.. "chops it into 4 pieces" My brand new raspberry pi: >:O

[@remigiuszbloch]

this is my last resort!!!

[@NithinJune]

oof 69 likes cant likes

[@adizivojevic8635]

Pi: IM HAVING A CPU ATTACK

[@ketatgenhorst]

I watch these videos and pause after each step, trying it on my own. Was seriously bummed when he said "Just kidding"after I cut up my pi. :O Kidding.

[@dirkw72]

Hi Chick, its so great what you and david are doing here on youtube and your own channels. I cant wait to put the esxi on the raspi -- i cant believe that you have there 8 gigs of memory and so much cpu power on that small computer board. Its hard to find time for that because of our newborn baby. he is sleeping next to me and i try to use the sleep time if i can to learn for ccna and doing such stuff like with the raspi. i really like the way you and david are teaching. Thanks for all of that what you are doing :)

[@somegearnoidea]

Hi, I followed the tutorial and it worked great. I now have a working Esxi Pi. Thank you for putting this together, I have added a POE power supply so now I have a self contained esxi server. Awesome! Thanks again. SGNI :)

[@SamuelSmithJirikiha]

What!? I built an ESXi server for home and never imagined it could run on a pi.

[@brianb3854]

Learn something new everyday :)

[@mcnamaraky]

I believe this just happened recently. VMWare on ARM that is.

[@constantinamundsen2487]

But it wouldnt be usable for stuff like running nas, nextcloud and stuff. BUT with a cluster of pis with vmware is great for learning stuff cheaply.learning linux while having snapshots of the os is also sooo much better than reinstalling stuff if you nuke it accidentally.

[@constantinamundsen2487]

@Banana in Condom but not with all the features and custom built extensions i need. Allthough those pis are very reliable. Mi pi 2 is still running since 3 years and never even complained

[@RavianXReaver]

@@constantinamundsen2487 Checkout Turing PI 2 - with RPI CM 4 init ^_^

[@optimizeryt37]

u cutting that raspberry pi hurt

[@LampJustin]

He needs to seek medical advice!

[@muralipala6825]

Your rock dude ...awesome...keep posting this kinda things...

[@engrpiman]

This is amazing. It was easy to implement. I had a 128GB SD cards so I partitioned it but exsi didn't see it as an option.😢

[@w0c0r]

I'd like to know as well why he doesn'r bring that up as an option

[@diegomacedo4918]

@Leonard Lucchese Hi Leonard, Ihave the same question....Did you have any response?

[@colethomas2309]

I can feel my blood pressure rising from all the coffee breaks.

[@metalheadmalta]

Saw this a bit late.... but I got to say this ... Chuck, you're the man.

[@marksloan5443]

This video is wonderful! We followed along and successfully created our server. Thank you for posting this!

[@rss112]

Dude did you install vcentre on one of the raspberry pi as a vm or on another device?

[@roberthealey7238]

Will a follow up video explain installing vcenter on the pi?

[@powerupminion]

My Pi4B won't accept that I disable the "Limit RAM to 3 GB". I do hit "Y", it changes state to "", go back to the main menu with ESC, hit "Continue" and restart into the boot menu again. IT STILL SHOWS 3GB AND THE OPTION IS AGAIN!!!

[@chiodos48]

I'm getting this as well. Any luck?

[@powerupminion]

@@chiodos48 Nope. I've given up on it, after trying on 2 other identical (and completely new) pi4b 8gb... 🤷‍♂️

[@NinjaFlashX]

Ditto. Brand new Pi 4 8GB and the 3GB limit won't stick after the reboot.

[@chiodos48]

@@powerupminion try an earlier UEFI version. I got it working

[@chiodos48]

@@NinjaFlashX I can't remember the version but I found an earlier UEFI version. That worked for me.

[@felipen.s.2484]

Man!!! That was awesome!!! I´m doing it right now!

[@smilin_dominator]

One of the best videos on KZbin!

[@THEREALSAZMAN]

I really hope that pi was already dead

[@brick4353]

i hope so

[@mexikanecfilda]

Don’t worry... it was :)

[@isaiahgovea2319]

Had to be

[@mtrsoftwareservices]

Pi's don't die... they multiply!

[@mexikanecfilda]

@@mtrsoftwareservices true

[@raynca22l36]

me:dreaming of having a raspberry pi one day man:rips a raspberry pi into pieces me:😳

[@hermanvanleeuwen7781]

What is the reason that you dream about the Raspberry. Is it to expensive 4 you?

[@raynca22l36]

@@hermanvanleeuwen7781 i have always been in love with robotics so much that when i found about the raspberry pi and what cool stuff i could do with it i started learning how to code on my phone hoping one day my parents could be able to get me one but even though that hasn't happened yet i still have hope of getting one some day

[@hermanvanleeuwen7781]

Where do you come from.

[@raynca22l36]

@@hermanvanleeuwen7781 am from Africa country Zambia

[@hermanvanleeuwen7781]

@@raynca22l36 is it possible to buy one in Zambia

[@JCtheMusicMan_]

I did this on four Raspberry Pi 4 8GB's. Incredible learning tool!

[@eben92071]

Just build my vmware ESXi on my brand new Raspberry Pi 4. Nice video and steps. Thanks for sharing.

[@TzZek]

Would be cool to see, a series about hosting these little guys that you can access on the go / being able to get "https"

[@DD_MN]

I started crying when you took the knife out

[@Kaltinril]

This video earned you a sub. Crazy! Nice work.

[@amparorod2000]

Thank you for all your hard work.

[@Ryancooper0602]

i was gonna enter the giveaway but i’m too broke

[@davidorozco9021]

This man has his own coffee. Link in the description 😆

[@exXwULrFni]

The one like Kopi luwak, but made in his own way?

[@korkis.3609]

Surprising recommended video. We've had a small RPi cluster in our test vCenter at work for a few years. Fun little project.

[@Fantaamistar]

i love the way you're doing this tutorial :) I'm gonna get myself a Rasberry Pi 4B tomorrow since my Rasberry Pi 3B+ is not tough enough to handle the ESXi Enviroment with VM's on it. Keep on going bro ;)

[@Lcova76]

Do you have a Tutorial about configuring your Synology..... iSCSI vs LUN's vs NFS

[@leopold7562]

I second this, it’ll be way more useful to me than buying a massive USB flash drive

[@_bentou]

Use NFS, it is way faster than iSCSI.

[@simonlivings629]

I've been waiting for esxi on a pi. Theres a win 10 on arm out there somewhere. Windows on a pi 😱😱😱 Great run through Chuck

[@paulweston1106]

Novaspirit Tech tried and didn't seem to be able to get WOA working in exsi.

[@SniperAtWork1]

Amazing video! I've been using vSphere on Dell servers only, but will definitely try it on RPi! Thanks

[@efkay1326]

Oh man! Love this. I work with servers and VMware everyday but I didn’t know this! I’ll do the same for sure. Thanks.

[@justinkinsey5517]

I wonder will this be available for the Macs since they are moving to ARM chips

[@richardwicks4190]

That's probably why they are porting it but the problem is, what are you going to be running as a virtual machine on a ARM based MAC? Linux? Why bother? There are versions of windows that run on ARM, but they aren't full versions and most of the software that is available for Windows isn't available for x86 unless it's from Microsoft - and you can bet that programs are that are available for ARM Windows will be available for ARM Mac. It's kind of neat, but not very useful in my opinion. I really wish there was a full blown raspberry pi simulator for x86. Qemu doesn't really cut it for me. Less work for me just to develop directly on a pi.

[@justinkinsey5517]

@@richardwicks4190 I agree with you totally, I am not speaking from any stand point, just motivating factors to purchase a mac book, I am not married to a platform just functionality and stability, I use old laptops with Linux distros and or Windows and will probably continue like that because I have no need to buy a platform for the sake of the platform. With virtualization one doesn't need to spend a lot on a machine unless of course you just really want to.

[@onewaydigitalmarketing5803]

HI where can I find the appropiate kali image for this project? I cant find it

[@salmoreno6623]

I to would like to know which image to use

[@Adityasihora04]

Amazing stuff, super like for the way you present.

[@is6031]

This video is amazing! Thanks for your help!

[@thewindowsmaster347]

man: installs ESXi on pi me: installs ESXi on virtualbox inside virtualbox on windows inside mac inside TV

[@sanctoannonymous9504]

meta

[@Sc0rphionx]

Why so many devices if you can virtualize the Matrix in your ThreadRipper am I right?

[@budliquor6972]

The link to the ESXi ARM ISO is not working.

[@034G63EVO]

I was playing around a few years ago and had ESXi running in a VM and connecting to it in multiple VM's on one machine. That was fun :)

[@neilvermeulen5283]

Thank you sir. This was educational. ESXi now running on my RPI4 too. Hosting two Ubuntu servers, just because I can.

[@moi44_]

Can't even enter because I have pihole on my old raspberry, would love having the latest 8gb model

[@alkixyourlinux9110]

You cut that up!!????😱. I need one, and you cut it up! 😭

[@NetworkChuck]

Haha, it was already broken. I’m not that crazy.

[@alkixyourlinux9110]

😂😂

[@Kaname2907]

@@NetworkChuck thank you for not killing a brand new pi

[@ruxik92]

I got this running on my rpi4 now with a Network storage with syncthing for photos using a 2 tb USB drive and a pihole server. LOVE IT

[@staceyward777]

Dude! This is nucking futz! VMware on a Pi?!? I've got multiple Pis in my house running NAS, PiHole, an ADS-B feeder for all the flight tracking websites that also functions as a stratum 1 NTP server for my home network. I wouldn't try to combine the NAS with the others, but all the rest could run off just one Pi. Thanks for this vid man. And I probably wouldn't have found it if I hadn't watched your vid on "you NEED a website" and scoped out one of the sites you mentioned. I'm 55 and retired, not looking for a job and have no intention of blogging, but great vid. But this just blows my mind. I was already playing with Proxmox and getting ready to dive into ESXi anyway.

[@ckatke]

It feels sad 😢 when someone wastes a technology that I can't afford 😔

[@adamwade5612]

Why can you not afford it?

[@ckatke]

@@adamwade5612 bcoz it costs ₹4000 which is 4 time my pocket money 💰

[@scienceium5233]

@@adamwade5612 money issues

[@ckatke]

@@scienceium5233 feels bro

[@scienceium5233]

@@ckatke sorry

[@wgeorgecook]

Is there a technical limitation that prevents you from installing ESXi on the SD card? Or do you leave that on Raspian for recovery purposes?

[@JulesArchinova]

Would like to know too

[@compaholic83]

I'm guessing because the higher end USB 3 thumb drives have more write cycles than SD cards. Being used for ESXi will wear any flash related media out considerably faster greatly reducing their lifespans. The higher end USB3 flash drives tend to have higher write cycles and will generally last longer.

[@jabranejabri3346]

oh man thank you for sharing your greatest knowledge, and nice vmWare on raspberry

[@mullydoesmusic-ishstuff5506]

I did, it works! I’m studying for my Linux+ old Linux guy here that’s not worked in IT for 15 years and want to get back in. My first Linux install ever was Redhat 5.4! I thought this would be some good practice plus give me some different diaries to play around with while giving some experience with virtualization. So far so good! That clustering looks interesting. Might have to check that out. Thanks for an awesome vid!

[@Felix-ve9hs]

Have fun installing VMware vCenter >:^)

[@soup3ygnome173]

vCenter is not compatible with arm "yet" lol on their page they say it can be managed with vCenter running on a x86 system though

[@d0ugk]

LOL even if they had an ARM edition, good luck running it on a Pi with even 8gig of ram. It's a pig of an appliance, pretty sure it requires a min of 8 gig of RAM all on its own. I have a copy of it running on my home lab in the smallest VM i could get it to run in which I think is 8gig of RAM. It works and is fairly responsive once booted for playing in a home lab on 8gig of ram, but the appliance takes something like 20-30min to boot to the point you can login to the web ui. And this is v6.7.0, not sure how much more pigish 7.0 is.

[@InterFelix]

@@d0ugk oh, 7.0 is pretty much the same in that regard. It takes FOREVER to boot, which is driving me crazy, and it's eating RAM and CPU for breakfast. Good thing I have two decommissioned Servers with 256 Gigs of RAM and two octacores each as my lab environment at work

[@d0ugk]

I find with 6.7.0 the CPU isn't bad once it's booted and settled down. It's Still a ram pig. My cluster at home is 4 lenovo m93p tiny hosts I picked up for a bit over 100 a pop. Max ram on them is 16gig, so the vcenter appliance eats up half those resources on one of the 4. They fit comfortably next to my qnap nas in one of those Ikea cubby hole shelves, and don't scream or chew power like a rack of servers.