Tag: servers
How to set the default boot partition with ESXi on a Mac
After I started testing with ESXi 5.5 (read first post here), I couldn’t get my test Mac Pro to boot from the USB key as the ESXi OS wasn’t being seen in System Preferences -> Startup Disk. The easiest way to do this is to boot into the Mac boot loader, but how do you have this setting stick after a reboot?! Well, look no further! Read More
How to create an ESXi usb installer on Mac OS X
A couple of days ago I wanted to test VMware ESXi 5.5 on a Mac Pro 4,1 (quad-core XEON 2.66GHz / 8GB RAM). I had a couple of issues doing this, mostly my fault as, of course, I jumped straight in and didn’t read any of the documentations. Anyway, once I had read the documentation there were still a few things not covered, so I thought I would document the steps I took to get the platform installed: Read More
