Well, I do not really need help but I figured I would throw this up in case someone else was wondering, so if you find my information useful then find a way to give me points or something, hahahaha... :smileylaugh:
Anyway, I had VMware ESXi 4.1 running a DELL D830 with 8GB for like 2 years now, but today I decided to try my luck with an HP 6550b that I got my hands on. I was actually going to sell it off but I popped on the ESXi 4.1 USB drive and it booted without so much as a hiccup so now I have decided to upgrade my Home Infrastructure server to an HP although it was not planned and just happened to work, but I like the i5 CPU with 8GB while the former was a Dual Core 2 Duo.
Not a HUGE jump but better memory and more peripherals although a waste to use it for a vSphere server but I am working on an HP Envy 17 so I am not complaining and I have to keep testing stuff on VMs so this comes in handy. Oh well, I hope someone finds this useful if they are looking to recycle laptops as DEV or TEST environments...
Wow, glad to hear that you can utilize this laptop as the ESXi host 🙂
may I know which feature of the ESXi that is not working or any difficulties in configuring it as ESXi server ?
eg. no 64 bit VM support or something else ?
thanks for your willingness to share here mate !
Dude, I am saying it works 100%.
yes, that is true, this forum is unlike Symantec forum where you can get points and then you can redeem it with Amazon $15 coupon.
but thanks for the report and sharing spirit here mate, I appreciate it.