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Beside and there is another great barebone in the homelab market. Basic requirements for home server are a decent price, good performance and low power consumption. Gigabytes BRIX offers great performance and is small in size and power consumption and thus makes it a great candidate for running ESXi at home. To get started, first a look at the different models available at the moment.

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BRIX: Basic Barebone, candidate for ESXi. GB-BXi3-4010: Intel Core i3-4010U (2x 1.7GHz). GB-BXi5-4200: Intel Core i5-4200U (2x 2.6GHz). GB-BXi7-4500: Intel Core i7-4500U (2x 3.0GHz) BRIX s: Identical to BRIX barebones but with 2.5' HDD/SDD support. Slightly larger case and a good candidate for ESXi. GB-BXi3H-4010: Intel Core i3-4010U (2x 1.7GHz).

GB-BXi5H-4200: Intel Core i5-4200U (2x 2.6GHz). GB-BXi7H-4500: Intel Core i7-4500U (2x 3.0GHz) BRIX Pro: High performance BRIX with 2.5' HDD/SDD support and quad-core CPU. These are the only systems with VT-d support and thus the best candidate for ESXi.

GB-BXi5-4570R: Intel Core i5-4570R (4x 3.20 GHz). GB-BXi7-4770R: Intel Core i7-4770R (4x 3.90 GHz) There is also a Brix Gaming series with GPU support and a BRIX Projector with an integrated projector. BRIX with AMD and Celeron CPUs are also available but these are not the best candidates for ESXi. I'm listing them here for completeness.

BRIX Projector GB-BXPi3-4010. BRIX Gaming GB-BXi5G3-760. BRIX Gaming GB-BXi5G-760.

BRIX Gaming GB-BXi7G3-760. BRIX Gaming (AMD) GB-BXA8G-8890.

BRIC (AMD) GB-BXA8-5545. BRIX (Celeron) GB-BXBT-2807 Features The Kits are shipped with:. Chassis.

System board. Processor (soldered). power adapter. Power cord. VESA Bracket To get an ESXi Host installed you need:. Memory (SO-DIMM DDR3L). mSATA SSD.

USB-Stick. 2,5' HDD/HDD (BRIX s and BRIX Pro) Model comparison Best candidates for ESXi are BRIX, BRIX s and BRIX Pro.

I am not looking further into other models. Hope this saves someone time and headaches. Just setup a BRIX Pro with i7, and ESXi 5.5.

Using an external CD drive (usb drive would not work), then disabling CSM, the install completes without any issues. The problem occurs following the installation of ESXi.

After assigning a management IP, and restarting the network service, ESXi would not respond to pings and I could not login via vSphere. Also, after disconnecting from power, subsequent attempts to power on the BRIX failed. To fix the issue, I had to disconnect the CMOS battery to get back into the BIOS settings. I RE-enabled CSM, powered on and the BRIX has performed flawlessly since.

Or, if you don't have a paid subscription so you can get the offline bundle (without a lot of screwing around, that is), Sign up for a trial of vSphere 6, grab the hypervisor ISO, and use ESXi Customizer to inject the drivers, which is what I did. ESXi Customizer can be found. The 2 driver files you need to inject are and. In both cases, you want the Offline Bundle version at the bottom of the page. For an overview of how to use ESXi-Customizer, I referred to link. It isn't specifically for the Brix, but it'll give you an idea of how to build the modified vSphere 6 ISO (note that when you get to the part where you add the drivers in ESXi-Customizer, it won't show the.zip files you downloaded until you change the file type in the open dialog to 'all files'). Finally, make sure you disable CSM in the Brix's BIOS, or it'll probably hand in the middle of the install.

I just thought I'd leave a message here for everyone trying to get ESX 5.5 installed on a BRIX and getting either the hang at 'Initializing storage stack' or the 'Command line is empty. Fatal error: 32 (syntax)' error.

I just bought a GB-BXi3H-4010 and was trying to install v5.5 on it from a Sandisk Fit USB drive. I did not touch anything in the BIOS and got the hang at 'Initializing storage stack'. So I followed the instructions in this article and went to BIOS Boot CSM Parameters and set 'Launch CSM' to Disabled. Rebooted again and got the 'Command line is empty' error.

I found a comment right at the end of a VMWare Community topic : 'hey,i guess you are installing esxi 5.1 with uefi boot mode.To solve this problem you have to get a esxi 6.0.iso file and extract EFI boot BOOTX64.EFI BOOTIA32.EFI,then put this two files into same path in esxi 5.1.iso. It should be working now.' So I downloaded the ESX 6 ISO, pulled out the two files and overwrote the existing ones on my flash drive. It booted and installed successfully! Note that I am not using the 'noIOMMU' parameter, whatever this does, my install appears to be working fine without it.

This is my problem: GiraHomeServer3, manufacture IP-address is 192.168.0.11, device successfully pinged, I updated the firmware and transfered the project (Expert2.6), the client (laptop with IP-address 192.168.0.12) connected successfully, everything is OK! There is existing network at the site. With subnet 192.168.1.x I changed the IP address of HS to 192.168.1.211 in project and transfered to HS - successfully! But now HS does not ping and Expert does not see it (on the laptop IP: 192.168.1.12)!!! What is more the ARP command shows MAC-address of the HS! I tried to reboot, shut off power, waited a few minutes (as in Man written) - nothing it helps!

Gira Homeserver 4.2 Vmware

After hour of dancing, I transfered the project through a COM-port with factory address - everything is works normal again. What should I do? I set on the router (Asus) subnet mask - 255.255.0.0 while and HS is visible. But it is not correct decision.

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