Has anyone tried installing ESXi on the box? Looks like the standard esxi ISO does not have required drivers for network interfaces, so the process ends with a "No Network Adapters were detected" message
Resolved: Looks like we have a Realtec RTL/8111/8168/8411 card on board. My native Ubuntu shows kernel driver r8169 and those are not apparently on the supported NIC list from ESX 5.5 onwards. Thus we need a custom ESXi iso build. I followed this guide: https://www.v-front.de/2014/12/how-to-make-your-unsupported-nic-work.html Requirements: A Windows computer (XP or newer) with Powershell 2.0 or newer VMware PowerCLI version 5.1 or newer - I used 6.5.1. looks like we need to upgrade Powershell to 4.0/5.0 to install VM Power CLI, otherwise Install-Module command is not available. I ran WIN7 with PS 2.0, then upgraded to PS 4.0 following this guide: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...scripter-install-powershell-4-0-in-windows-7/ and installed PackageManagement PowerShell from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=51451 Once I had the above figured out and installed I run the following command in PS: .\ESXi-Customizer-PS-v2.3.ps1 -v65 -vft -load net55-r8168,net51-r8169 and got my custom ISO built and ESXi 6.5.0 running on the board
