Esxi installation woes

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I'm totally new servers and VM's and whatnot and i've been trying to install Esxi but during the installation it says "nfs41client failed to load" and then informs me that no network connection is detected. I decided to test this by installing Xpenology/DSM and it all went fine, no issues with the network connection. I updated my motherboard's BIOS and checked to make sure than the onboard network controller was enabled, which it is.

Not sure where to go from here? FWIW my motherboard is an MSI H81I with a G3258 CPU.

Thanks
 
Thanks for that, installing 5.1.0 now :)

I dont suppose you know of any idiot proof guides to creating/configuring Windows 8.1 and Xpenology VM's? I've tried reading through a couple of guides already but they've been anything but noob friendly.
 
Ah right. Is that the same for Xpenology too? According to this guide you have to a bit of mucking about with SSH, PuTTY etc which I have no clue about so I dont understand what it is we're doing with in that guide.

Also, is worth buying a compatible NIC in order to use Esxi 6.0?
 
Any idea if this is Esxi 6 compatible? I've tried looking on the list at vmware.com but it seems to hate me and produces no results when i search for anything.
 
GDL said:
Link

While it's for 5.1, I don't recall many changes that would stop support under 6.

It's only £8 so worth a punt.

EDIT: SCRATCH THAT.

It works on 5.1 out of the box, but not higher. You need to install the driver outlined in this link.
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Thanks, I think I might just try and find a NIC that works with Esxi 6.0 out of the box. If I cant find one for a reasonable price then i'll get the one above.

the-evaluator said:
The other thing that can cause that error is a lack of RAM. Not the most helpful error message in the world! I had the same problem trying to install ESXi 6 on an HP Microserver but once I shoved in more RAM it installed fine.

How much RAM has the box got?
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8gb.
 
I think I may have entirely misunderstood the functionality of Esxi. I wanted to run two VM's, one running Windows and one running Xpenology. However, I wanted the Windows VM to display on the Monitor/TV that is connected to server machine itself, i.e not in a console in the vsphere client on my desktop.

By the looks of things that's not actually possible?
 
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