Cheapest home lab server??? Raspberry Pi 4 Virtualization Server ESXi Arm edition
Are you looking for the cheapest way to get into a home lab server? What if you could run a hypervisor on top of your Raspberry Pi 4 device? VMware ESXi on Arm enables running the VMware vSphere ESXi hypervisor on top of your Raspberry Pi and can potentially be a great way for many who want to delve into running a home lab environment to spin up a virtualization server for super cheap!
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Introduction - 0:00
Overview of ESXi on Arm - 0:46
Description of VMware Flings - 1:01
Looking at the official ESXi fling site - 1:53
Looking at Raspberry Pi 4 to run ESXi on Arm - 2:28
Recommendations for DRS and other vCenter features - 3:09
What do you need to get started? 3:18
Looking at Amazon for Raspberry Pi 4 devices - 4:00
Kit that I have in the lab - 4:45
USB flash devices and how many you need - 5:17
Downloading the files needed for the ESXi on Arm installatio - 5:35
Downloading the ESXi Arm ISO file - 5:48
Downloading the latest UEFI firmware for Raspberry Pi 4 device - 6:22
Downloading the firmware master package for Raspberry PI 4 firmware - 6:42
Now with files downloaded, we can extract files and merge them - 7:10
Extracting packages - 7:30
Merging the files needed from both packages - 7:41
Selecting the files we need and pasting all files merging and overwriting files - 8:16
Formatting the microSD card and copying over files - 8:49
Copying the contents of teh boot folder to teh microSD card - 9:24
Updating the bootloader for the Raspberry Pi 4 device - 9:41
Create the installation media for ESXi on Arm - 10:39
Inserting the microSD cards and 2 USB drives for installation and target of the installation - 11:27
Changing a Raspberry Pi BIOS setting for limiting RAM to 3GB and disabling the setting - 11:55
Ready to boot Raspberry Pi 4 device - 12:34
Logging into the host interface in ESXi on Arm - 13:13
Looking around the interface - 13:30
Added the ESXi on Arm in vCenter Server - 14:13
I have added an additional USB drive and adding a datastore - 14:33
Datastore created successfully - 15:00
Talking about installing a VM on ESXi on Arm - 15:05
Use cases for ESXi on Arm - 15:20
Wrapping up thoughts on ESXi on Arm and the home lab! 17:09
VMware Fling Site for ESXi Arm Edition:
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My full write up on loading ESXi on Arm on Raspberry Pi 4:
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