esxi 8

I am currently running Mikrotik CHR inside ESXi 8. I created a "LAN Management Group" port group which uses vSwitch1 (physical vmnic4) and is assigned a VMKernel port for management. vSwitch1 is also assigned to another port group called "LAN1" and used as a LAN port in the Mikrotik VM. The...

Good day, I'm looking for some help! My hardware: i9-9900k, Z390 chipset (MSI), 64gb ram, some ssd drives BIOS: VT-x, VT-d, Above 4G decoding - Enabled, C-states - disabled. Primary video output - iGPU ESXi settings: hypervisor.cpuid.v0 = "FALSE", pciPassthru0.msiEnabled = "FALSE"...

Hi, I’m running ESXi 8 on one of those fanless no-name boxes with an Intel N5105. I haven’t yet had chance to check how much power it’s drawing from the wall, however it feels pretty warm even ant idle with no VMs running. I was wondering if ESXi supports some kind of power saving on these...

I have a Dell PowerEdge R610 server for LAB usage. As VMware ESXi 6.7 went end-of-life in October 2022, I decided it was time to upgrade. Instead of going with VMware ESXi 7.x I went straight to ESXi 8.x. The upgrade itself wasn't too difficult, have to workaround some unsupported CPU warnings...

Hello, So I bought from Ali Express, one of the N5105 fanless boxes - bare bones model then I got 32 gigs of RAM and a 1TB SSD from Amazon - total cost out the door less than $300. I've installed ESXi as the booting OS, then I installed OPNSense in a VM, and I have it properly working and...

Hi all, I've been out of the homelab game for a few years now and wanted to pick it back up. I was using ESXI before the VMKLinux drivers where deprecated. I have a couple of machines with Intel 82576 and 82575 quad nics. They both seem deprecated and unsupported in ESXI 8.0. Is there a...