Goober Posted October 10, 2015 #1 Posted October 10, 2015 I've just bought the parts to build my own little NAS/HTPC/Whatever and I want to play about with it for a while and learn some new things. I've never done much with VM's aside from VirtualBox so I thought I'd have a go at Esxi and try to run Ubuntu and Xpenology before deciding whether or not to make the system a dedicated NAS or Htpc. Is this actually possible and does anyone decent beginners guides to Esxi? Thanks
berwhale Posted October 10, 2015 #2 Posted October 10, 2015 Once you have ESXi up and running, you can install pretty much whatever you want in the guest virtual machines. I've just started playing with it myself and I have the following vms configured: 4 Xpenology servers, 1 Windows 8.1 64-bit, 1 Ubuntu 15.04 64-bit and 1 turnkey linux appliance running Wordpress. There's a pretty good install guide here: http://www.vladan.fr/vmware-esxi-6-installation-guide/ You will need a Windows PC to run the vSphere Client to control the ESX server.
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