What you don't have is a VGA Port, or spare USB Port to plug a Keyboard into (as well as a USB Flash Disk for the ESXi HV/OS Volume), which will make it pretty hard to process the Next/Next/F11 sequence required to install ESXi. Inside, you'll notice an internal USB port, plugged into a 4 GB USB Flash Drive (by some company I've never heard of) outside, you'll notice I've plugged in a USB 3 Ethernet Adapter (that uses the Realtek RTL8152 Chipset). Here's a few photos of what we've got to work with: The NICs are not detected by ESXi, even though they're on the VMware Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) What have we got here, Captain? Network - 2x Intel 82574L 1 GbE Network Ports.Storage - 1x Internal 4 GB USB Flash Disk.Storage - 2x Hot-pluggable 500 GB SATA 7.2k Hard Drives.
The box I have is a Cisco WAVE 594, with specifications as follows: Originally these Appliances were designed for CDN-like WanOp purposes, so they have extras like Cavium Crypto/Offload Cards onboard, and some SATA storage so I thought I'd have a go at loading VMware ESXi Hypervisor onto them. Why would you want to do this? No real reason, but we've been decommissioning some hardware, and it's pretty clear that Cisco WAVE Appliances are just a Compute Server, with some stuff like VGA Ports removed. Saturday, Installing ESXi on a Cisco Wide Area Virtualisation Engine Appliance
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