TeamTerry.Net VMWare ESX and ESXi

VMWare ESX and ESXi VMWare ESX and ESXi are very specific about hardware. A cheap NIC I use is the Intel Pro 1000 - around $50 Aus An awesome entry level SATA RAID card is the Adaptec 2410SA The following steps will work, but you will not have any redundancy You can edit the BIOS to get ESX and ESXi working on a modern motherboard (no RAID) * Disable on board RAID chips (JMicron, Intel ICH* etc) * Edit SATA settings to IDE (not RAID or AHCI) * If hard drive is not found - Use UBCD4Win to boot up - Open Drive Image XML * Click Restore - Select Windows Disk Management - Delete all partitions so drive is 'Unallocated'. VM-help - Awesome site especially for Whitebox HCL Virtualizationadmin.com - Another awesome site Top 10 VMWare sites - Top 10 of the best Top 10 VMWare sites Cheap ESX compatible hardware SATA controllers for ESX Trilead - Free utility to backup your VMs Top 10 Free VMWare utilities Transfer files to VM hosts Backup alternatives to VCB VMWare Reference card VMHA with ESX (High Availability) ESX and ESXi comparison VM Backup software - ESXPress - Veeam - Vizioncore - Trilead (Free) Backup software comparison