Hello everyone.
Recently, i've installed ESXi 6.7 U3 on a 'Macmini5,3' from Apple (Mac mini server 2011, Sandy Bridge)
This is for home lab use. I appreciate this is not a system which is officially supported, but it installed and it works great.
Under manage>hardware it recognizes the hardware as actually being macbookpro8,2 (which is also i7 sandy bridge from the same year)
The mac mini has 4 x USB 2.0 ports and 1 x Thunderbolt 1 port. My options are purchasing USB to gigabit ethernet adapters or possibly thunderbolt to ethernet if supported.
Can I use one or several USB or Thunderbolt ethernet adapters, and if so which chipsets are likely to work?
Is the hardware detection differences likely to give me problems?
I should point out I was unable to install 7.0 as it doesn't recognize the on-board ethernet due to the tg3 driver.
Thanks
