{"id":105,"date":"2008-01-03T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-04T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/esx-35-on-a-hp-d530.html"},"modified":"2008-01-03T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-04T01:16:00","slug":"esx-35-on-a-hp-d530","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/esx-35-on-a-hp-d530\/","title":{"rendered":"ESX 3.5 on a HP D530"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I was looking at this blog post:
\nhttp:\/\/www.ntpro.nl\/blog\/archives\/325-The-ultimate-ESX-3.5-white-box.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>And I thought… We’ve got one of those lying around.<\/p>\n

So I figured I’d give it a try.<\/p>\n

I added a supported nic, and was on my way. Then I realized that my D530 only had an IDE drive in it.<\/p>\n

I installed ESX 3.5, and sure enough it griped because it didn’t have any storage. On a positive note, the onboard nic was recognized by ESX. So I didn’t even need to add a “supported” nic.<\/p>\n

Well I didn’t have any SATA drives or non-supported SATA RAID controllers.<\/p>\n

So I looked at this VMTN forum post:
\nhttp:\/\/communities.vmware.com\/thread\/47225<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

To address some storage, without wanting to setup another box on the network, I followed the instructions from the PDF located in the thread: http:\/\/www.vmug.nl\/downloads\/VMWare_NFS_en_iSCSI.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Thanks to Reinout Wijnveen for the instructions.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that I don’t know Dutch, I was able to mull my way through the document. Sure enough, success!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Now I’ve got a “free” ESX test box. Keep in mind it isn’t the fastest (with a 3.0 GHz P4, and 1GB of RAM), but I can “play” without having to touch our test or production environments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well I was looking at this blog post: http:\/\/www.ntpro.nl\/blog\/archives\/325-The-ultimate-ESX-3.5-white-box.html And I thought… We’ve got one of those lying around. So I figured I’d give it … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-virtualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasemccarty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}