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  • ESXi on a Pi

    From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to Deon on Monday, December 28, 2020 23:25:36
    Howdy again Deon,

    So ESXi is running well on my pi's, I have a vm running so far on the first pi of 4... just debian 10 right now, thinking about what I wanna do with them still.

    I notice that ESXi on the Pi is only good for 180 days, I vaguely remember a brief conversation about this some time back, but wanted to ask again... what happens after the 180 days? is everything just dead and requires a reinstall or


































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    can I still use stuff?

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  • From deon@1337:2/101 to MeaTLoTioN on Tuesday, December 29, 2020 10:43:34
    Re: ESXi on a Pi
    By: MeaTLoTioN to Deon on Mon Dec 28 2020 11:25 pm

    Howdy,

    I notice that ESXi on the Pi is only good for 180 days, I vaguely remember


































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    a brief conversation about this some
    time back, but wanted to ask again... what happens after the 180 days? is
    everything just dead and requires a
    reinstall or can I still use stuff?

    Officially, just get a ESXi key from VMware - they are free. It'll run as a hypervisor without the extra features (which are probably moot on a Pi anyway).

    Unofficially, google search. Folks have documented how to "reset" the timer, so


































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    you dont loose anything - although I havent tried this. You might find other items via a google search too ;)

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/202 to deon on Friday, January 01, 2021 23:08:03
    Officially, just get a ESXi key from VMware - they are free. It'll run
    as a hypervisor without the extra features (which are probably moot on a Pi anyway).

    Yep the key seemed to work for each of the 4 pi's running esxi, so now I have unlimited time with them I guess =)

    Thanks for the heads up. Took me a while to figure my way around the vmware site to get the key but now I have it, and added to all pi's it's all gravy.

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  • From deon@1337:2/101 to MeaTLoTioN on Saturday, January 02, 2021 10:21:00
    Re: Re: ESXi on a Pi
    By: MeaTLoTioN to deon on Fri Jan 01 2021 11:08 pm

    Happy New Year!

    Yep the key seemed to work for each of the 4 pi's running esxi, so now I
    have unlimited time with them I guess =)

    Sweet.

    I got me another 8GB Pi coming with the Argus One case and M.2 adapter. Should be a lot neater than my current setup with USB caddy.

    Now I need to sell my 3's :)

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to deon on Saturday, January 02, 2021 00:36:02
    On 02 Jan 2021, deon said the following...

    Re: Re: ESXi on a Pi
    By: MeaTLoTioN to deon on Fri Jan 01 2021 11:08 pm

    Happy New Year!

    Happy New Year to you too, sir!

    I got me another 8GB Pi coming with the Argus One case and M.2 adapter. Should be a lot neater than my current setup with USB caddy.

    Now I need to sell my 3's :)

    Ahh nice, I used to have a 3b but I lost that a few years back.

    Oh there's an M.2 adapter? That's interesting, I assume that you can then use an NVME disk for boot? or do you still need the SD Card for booting?

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  • From deon@1337:2/101 to MeaTLoTioN on Saturday, January 02, 2021 11:58:45
    Re: Re: ESXi on a Pi
    By: MeaTLoTioN to deon on Sat Jan 02 2021 12:36 am

    Howdy,

    Oh there's an M.2 adapter? That's interesting, I assume that you can then
    use an NVME disk for boot? or do you still need
    the SD Card for booting?

    There is an M.2 adapter (its a USB to SATA M.2). So not NVME but a SATA drive -






























































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    still much better than a stick or the SD card.

    I read somewhere that the UEFI boot can be put on the USB drive now (doesnt need to be on the SD card) so I may try it out and see if I can do it. (I also recall reading from the ESXi install that the UEFI boot cannot be on the same USB device as ESXi, but I dont know if I read that incorrectly - doenst make sense to me). ESXi can boot from the SATA, so that part is OK.

    BTW: I also discovered that somebody wrote a module to get expose the Pi's tempurature - but I cannot get it to install, so I may try with that as well since I see there is an ESXi build update since I installed.

    ...ëîåï

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