Baremetal VSphere Mac Minis

Speaker: Vanessa White

A case study guide on building VMware VSphere ESXI bare metal Mac Minis to host Mac OS X virtual machines.

Note: talk will go over steps that will invalidate Apple warranties if users are not hardware repair certified, and intended goal of the initial project was to create development environments for testing software builds.
Included topics:
• Physical upgrades to the Mac Mini itself
• Creating bootable thumb drives for installing ESXI on the Mini using unetbootin
• Getting past the Pink Screen of Death in ESXI
• Configuring ESXI
• Using Casper Netboot to create VMs post setup
• Updating the serial numbers of the VMs to a more Apple-friendly length