![]() ![]() ![]() When I mean fine it means I had no problems with it. Motherboard integrated NIC which is Intel i217-v seemd to work fine for some time. The second solution is to find suitable NIC here and install it on your system instead of TG-3468. #TP LINK TG 3468 SERVER 2012 R2 HOW TO#Build you custom ISO and burn it or use Rufus tool to make bootable usb drive. ESXi Customizer is so simple and intuitive that I believe it doesn`t need explanation how to use it.Get VIB file from here, or originally posted here.In order to use TP-Link NIC and therefore install ESXi you need to have either drivers injected to standard 5.5 ISO file: The rest doesn`t really matter, get equipment that will meet your demands.Īll components are “ESXi 5.5 friendly” except for onboard NIC, TP-Link NIC and DirectPath I/O is not supported by default, you have to enable VT-d in BIOS under Advanced -> Chipset Configuration -> VT-d.Storage is Kingston SSD V300 120GB with write speed of 450Mb/s but it is your choice what you will put here.NIC – TP-Link PCI-e TG-3468 (this is RTL8168 based, works on ESXi 6.0).CPU – Intel i5-4440 with 4 cores and EPT allowing to have nested VMs.I started googling for a cheap way to have another one box to install ESXi or Hyper-V ont it. I added 4 GB of RAM a bit later, but for large environments such as Active Directory with other services it was not enough dough. It was enough for learning basic vmware stuff. The purpose for lab was to pass VCP-510 exam first, so I bought pretty old Dell T300 with one 146Gb HDD and 6GB of RAM. Since I spent many hours on finding proper motherboard with rest of needed components to get my lab working with VMWare ESXi I decided to write this post to make people find easy way to build ESXi 5.5 lab. ![]()
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