ESXi on an old IBM Pentium III ?

[gispro]

Hi,

Has anyone tried to install ESXi on an IBM server with Pentium III cpu's ?

We have an old Xseries 232 that I would like to spin up as a test platform with ESXi, but I'm unsure whether it'll work.

I have looked in the (somewhat confusing) hardware compatability guide, and found nothing, so I thought I'd post here as a last resort.

Thanks in advance.

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Lars I. Nielsen, GisPro

[HughBorg707]

I am currently running a production (okay small production haha) ESX 3.5U4 server on a Dell 1650 with dual PIII cpu's and 4GB RAM (maxed). I am able to run 2 Turnkey Linux Drupal website appliances and a couple of 2003 test servers, one being AD with adequate resources.

As far as ESXi you might have a problem with driver support.

Regards

Mike

http://www.1zero1.net

[AntonVZhbankov]

You can install ESXi 3.5 only, 4.0 requires 64bit hardware.

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MCSA, MCTS, VCP, VMware vExpert '2009

http://blog.vadmin.ru

[J1mbo]

Out of interest, would 3.5U4 run on a P-Pro?

[HughBorg707]

I'm not certain, but if its a test machine you have nothing to lose by booting it up and see what you come up with.

Also in my test environment I have 2 nVidia 680i motherboard machines; one Core2, the other Core2Quad, 4GB RAM each. Together they run an ESX 4 cluster and perform HA, VMotion, DRS, and work with an iSCSI SAN just fine.The only thing so far they don't support is FT and powering back on after DRS shuts them down (no iLo or DRAC card).

Just get creative and let us know what you find.