Wanting a "cutting-edge" system that would last me several years into the future, I purchased an Intel i7-4790S and ASRock Extreme6. Procrastination being a good friend (oh, and I got married), I finally got around to this project in May. Thus I decided on 5.5 for my home machine as well. Previous work required me to evaluate various virtualization options (Xen, ESXi, Hyper-V, etc) and I had selected VMware as best of breed for my customer. Last year I decided to replace my aging Linux server with a Home Virtualization Server ("White Box"). Preparing my Nobel Prize nomination letter, advising the committee to add Andreas Peetz for next year's peace prize face-off. I am now able to install VMs onto the SSD. Rebooted the hypervisor.įollowed VMware Front Experience: How to make your unsupported SATA AHCI Controller work with ESXi 5.5 (the first 3 commands) and that installed the required drivers nicely. In UEFI BIOS, Advanced>Storage PCH there's an option (storage type something) with 3 possible values: RAID, IDE, AHCI. No storage adapters were visible though, therefore my samsung ssd was not present in the list. Had to run the jumper bios reset.Īfter that I installed anew from the stock iso onto a usb stick and was able to boot from it. Well, I didn't get to boot it after a successful instalation of esxi on it and from that point on the motherboard started acting strangely, not booting from anything. In a previous post I mentioned that the samsung ssd was visible.
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