Using a SATA SSD Drive with ESXi on Arm on a Raspberry Pi

Yes, Tom Fenton uses ESXi on a Raspberry Pi, but with an added twist: using an M.2 SATA SSD device for USB storage.

ESXi for Arm Raspberry Pi 4B - SSD SATA Drive Problems : r/vmware

I have a Raspberry Pi 4B, and Seagate 120GB SSD drive. ESXi detects the adapter (vmhba34), but it doesn't find the actual disk itself.

Getting Started with VMware ESXi on ARM with a Raspberry Pi

... install it to another USB thumb drive and use iSCSI storage for your VMs. SSD Intel DC S3500 SATA SSD with StarTech USB adapter. Select your ...

Using a M.2 SSD Drive with ESXi on Arm with an Argon ONE case.

The Argon ONE M.2 case for a Raspberry Pi has a place to put a M.2 SATA SSD drive. I installed ESXi on it and used a Ubuntu VM to use it.

External SSD not showing up in ESXi Storage | ESXi-Arm Fling

I'm using ESXi on the Raspberry Pi 4 8GB. I have a WD Green 240GB SSD connect to a USB 3.0 to SATA adapter and I just can't seem to get it to work. I have ...

ESXi on Raspberry Pi – Tutorial - Nico Vibert

After the installation, you need to tell the Raspberry Pi to boot up from the USB drive. Go back to the UEFI Firmware page, navigate to Boot ...

HW RAID - Raspberry Pi Forums

... ARM SBC to an X86 Linux system just by moving the drives. ... If one want's to run ARM virtual machines using ESXi, the next step up from a Pi ...

Cyprien's BOM for ESXi-Arm Fling - VMware Blogs

4x Samsung MUF-32AB/AM FIT Plus 32GB USB Flash Drives. They will get the ESXi-Arm install. All Raspberry Pi will use a shared NFS datastore.

Running ESXi 5.1 on a Pi? - Raspberry Pi Forums

Raspbian, Debian, or ARM? Any comments or hints much appreciated. ghans ... Note: ESXi does not support using local, internal SATA drives on the host ...

Running Windows 10 ARM on ESXI ARM Fling on Raspberry Pi 4

Checking out Windows 10 on Arm for ESXi ARM fling on raspberry pi 4. ○○○ LINKS ○○○ esxi fling ▻ https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition ...

Using your Pi with an SSD (Solid State Drive) - Raspberry Pi Forums

I would think the SSD isn't as important as the SATA-USB adapter, as far as booting is concerned. The Pi3 bootloader is not compatible with all USB mass storage ...

Need to full support Raspberrypi 4B! - IPFire Community

... SATA SSD and a USB3/SATA ... use ESXi Arm edition for Edge use-cases. You have to change your choice from ESXi-ARM-iso to Fling-on-Raspberry-Pi.

Argon ONE M.2 Raspberry Pi 4 Case - vswitchzero

I'm a bit late to the party, but I finally picked up a Raspberry Pi 4B 8GB board to use with VMware's new ESXi on Arm technical preview.

Using vCenter Server with a Raspberry Pi - Virtualization Review

... SATA SSDs and NVMe drives. The CPU that this server uses was ... Currently, the most widely used platform for ESXi on Arm is the Raspberry Pi ...

Installing VMware ESXi on a Raspberry Pi ⋅ avojak | blog

Installation · Make sure that the USB flash drive with the ESXi installer is inserted. · Connect the SSD (be sure to use the one of the USB 3.0 ...

ESXi on Raspberry Pi 4: Part 2 - Aleksandra Todorovska

From the moment the news broke that VMware's ESXi is now available for ARM processors (thus for Raspberry Pi), tutorials on how to install it ...

How To: Raspberry Pi as a vSAN Witness - StorageReview.com

To set up a Raspberry Pi already running the ESXi Arm fling you will need 2 additional storage devices as well as the SD card used for the UEFI and the USB ...

Using ControlUp to Monitor ESXi on ARM

... installing ESXi on ARM are running it on a Raspberry Pi 4 B. The ... drive, two 128 GB thumb drives, and a 32GB micro SSD card. The ...

Considerations for future vSphere Homelabs due to upcoming ...

This method is also useful for anyone interested in running vSAN with ESXi-Arm using a Raspberry Pi. ... I use spare m2 sata SSDs with USB adapter ...

VMware | vDoppler

The Argon ONE M.2 case for a Raspberry Pi has a place to put a M.2 SATA SSD drive. I installed ESXi on it and used a Ubuntu VM to ...