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ASRock Beebox-s series - can ESXi be installed?

I see a thread talking about a Beebox but think that may be a previous generation - I'm looking at the skylake 6th gen version of the Beebox-S.

I'm looking for a REALLY cheap box with low power requirements for a home server to run a firewall and a low performance NAS Linux VM and see some of these on eBay but will ESXi run on them? 

Anybody tried?

TIA

Wallport

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Despite lack of any responses, I gambled and went ahead with this. The basic system is running ESXi 7 like a dream (for such a low powered system). The USB NIC is not 100% stable - still trying to work out why it drops out now and again (fixed by unplugging from usb C and plugging in again).

I have this system idling at 10w with my firewall vm running.

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