Migrated My ET Jaymod Test Server to ESXi

My Promise SATA card arrived a few days ago and today I had time to put it in my server and install ESXi which is now available for free!

I installed VMWare Infrastructure Client which is free with ESXi on my XP machine and then downloaded the free version of VMWare Converter to migrate my virtual machines to ESX.

So the first machine that I migrated was my Ubuntu JeOS ET Jaymod test server.

For some reason eth0 did not show up after migration to ESXi and I later saw that eth1 was present and used that instead, so now my first virtual machine is up and running!


For those of you who are interested this is the (unsupported) hardware that I built the server from:

ASRock ALIVENF6G-VSTA AM2 NVidia 6100 Motherboard 1
AMD Athlon X2 BE-2400 Brisbane 2.3GHz 2
Intel Pro MT 1000 NIC 3
OCZ 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (x2) 4
PROMISE SATA300 TX4 PCI SATA II Controller Card 5
Seagate Barracuda ES.2 ST3250310NS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA Hard Drive 6
SeaSonic S12 II SS-330GB ATX12V 330W Power Supply 7

It was well worth $60 for the Promise SATA card to avoid having to fool ESXi into using the onboard SATA controller.