Is ESXi 3.5 Installation possible on HP Pavilion d5000t Desktop

[fusebox]

I am planing to get an Quad core 64bit HP Pavilion d5000t.I would like to know if ESXi 3.5 would detect the SATA drives which come with this desktop?Iam not sure what make those drives are.Did anyone try installing it on this machine?

Your inputs would really helpful.

[depping]

best test would be using a 1GB memory stick and boot the machine from that one. This way you will notice immediately what will and what will not work.

Duncan

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[Texiwill]

Moved to ESXi forum.

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