Something I’ve been doing for a while is running ESXi on my home server setup. Up until now I’ve been running ESXi 5.5.x on a 2011 Mac Mini, but with the release of ESXi 6.0 by VMware, I decided it was time to upgrade to new hardware. I opted to use the 2012 Mac Mini Server over the 2014 Mac Mini because the 2012 Mini Server uses quad-core processors with hyper-threading., so I would be upgrading from four available processors on my 2011 Mini to eight available processors on my 2012; in turn doubling the number of virtual machines which I could host and run inside of ESXi., where I needed to add ethernet drivers to the stock ESXi 5.x installer, ESXi 6.0 will install and work without additional drivers or installer modification needed.

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All I needed to do was, use Disk Utility to burn the ISO file to a CD and use that to install ESXi 6. For more details, see below the jump.

Installing ESXi 6.0 on the Mini Once I had the CD, I hooked up an Apple USB SuperDrive to the Mini, popped the newly-burned CD in and rebooted the Mini. When rebooting, I held down the Option key on my keyboard to allow the various boot drive options to appear, then selected the CD.

Fallout 3 Torrent Pc Iso File. The CD showed up with EFI Boot and Windows partitions, so I selected EFI Boot. NOTE: All screenshots of this process are from ESXi running inside of VMWare Fusion, but the Mac Mini install process was identical.

Once booted from the CD, I was asked to select the ESXi 6.0 installer. Once selected, the ESXi installer boot process began. When asked to begin the installation process, I hit the Enter key. I hit the F11 key to accept the license agreement. At this point, the installer took a few minutes to scan the machine. Once scanning completed, I was asked to select the drive I wanted to install on. I selected the drive I wanted and hit the Enter key.