Install ESXI on a Raspberry Pi 4 8GB !! It REALLY Works!

A HUGE announcement - ESXI now runs on ARM platforms! Late last week, the ESXI on ARM project announced that the ISO and configuration steps are now available for full consumption, so using my Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB device, I went through the steps to get VMWare vSphere up and running in my environment. It works great! Check below for the following resources

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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
2:40 - Checklist
3:15 - Overview
5:06 - Assemble the Pi
12:55 - Download ESXI on ARM
16:10 - Boot Raspbian and Setup
17:33 - Update and EEPROM
19:33 - Create UEFI Firmware Boot SD Card
25:28 - Configure UEFI BIOS
28:14 - Create ESXI Boot Installer Media
31:17 - Install ESXI
34:04 - Create VMFS Datastore with USB Drive
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Training!

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[mrrobot]

I just got the itch to look into this again and here you are. Great work man!

[chowanae]

I actually followed every step of your video together with the pdf guide. Well everything goes smoothly. Thank you for sharing this it is really a big help for starters.

[NovaspiritTech]

great job on the video!! good guide from start to finish, and awesome work on the usb arbitrator autostart disable

[thomaslanyon]

Super high-value content! Thank you so much.

[KRICHAN_Technologies]

Knox is giving such quality of content and hoping soon subscribers should increase in rapid way. Thank you Knox for putting so much of time in delivering great content

[AcCeSsDeNiEd]

Thanks for the tip on the usb storage. Lots of guides and video blogs did not state it.

[ReQuiem_]

Would really love to see this up and running on the rPi CM4, preferably in a cluster config. This could be a homelab game changer with the Turing Pi Cluster board (v2) coming out soon...

[michaeldeleted]

I made one! Used a USB SSD instead of the second flash drive. Thanks for all your content, Chuck,

[johngallagher]

Great video, everything is up and running, but I am having trouble creating the VMs for Debian, etc. would it be possible for you to do another video sometime walking through the steps to create one?
Thanks,
John G

[davechristoffersen]

Great video, well explained. My question would be why would you do this? At best any vm you create would have 2 cores and 4gb ram allowing some resources for the host

[katyaivanova]

Diese Tutorials sind immer für komplette Anfänger. Das ist mehr als trivial

[pimpmycode]

Great content, thanks for sharing. How are you recording the ESXi screens during the install and setup?

[DevOpsJourney]

I set this up, but ESXi is getting really really bad performance from my external SSID :(

[aa]

hello, have you know how to active rtc module on esxi ? I have buy a DS3231, but didn't working . seem's need driver or something...., thanks

[jorgedeandrade]

Amazing tutorial, but I have a problem with Windows VM's not recognize network adapter, do you have this problem? How to fix it?

[declanmcardle]

Why can't the target be the SD-MMC instead of a USB drive?

[rkaag]

good stuff! thank you!
now... if you remove all the usb devices and pop in a raspian (or any OS) sd card will it behave/be useful as any other RPi or is it now dedicated to ESXi?

[prthomasuk]

You can install ESXi straight back to the device you booted the installer from... All the required files are copied into RAM prior to installation starting. It’s one of the many great things about VMware!

[CNC-Time-Lapse]

For the life of me, I can not get the UEFI bios to save my config when setting the Limit Memory to 3GB <Disabled> setting. Tried every way imaginable. ESXi 7 always only sees 2.9GB... :(

[belami]

Nice walkthrough. But Why did You say that it has the latest bootloader version when it clearly states that "*** UPDATE AVAILABLE ***" at 18:52 ?
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