{"id":696,"date":"2012-01-19T07:36:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=696"},"modified":"2012-01-17T22:41:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-18T06:41:49","slug":"installing-vmware-esxi-5-server-on-a-mac-mini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/installing-vmware-esxi-5-server-on-a-mac-mini\/","title":{"rendered":"installing VMware ESXi 5 Server on a Mac Mini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I&#8217;ve learnt about VMware is how awesome our users are, and how willing they are to share their knowledge and expertise. \u00a0So it didn&#8217;t come as a surprise to me when I came across a detailed write-up of <a title=\"The Mac Mini VMware ESXi 5 Server \u2013 Part 2 (Installation)\" href=\"http:\/\/paraguin.com\/2012\/01\/10\/the-mac-mini-vmware-esxi-5-server-part-2-installation\/\">installing VMware ESXi 5 Server on a Mac Mini<\/a>. \u00a0Anyone who&#8217;s familiar with our <a title=\"VMware Compatibility Guide\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/resources\/compatibility\/search.php\">hardware compatibility guide<\/a> knows that this isn&#8217;t a supported configuration, so you&#8217;re using this at your own risk. \u00a0But I know that there are folks out there who are willing to hack at things, so have fun with it &#8212; and I&#8217;m sure that the authors of that post would appreciate any tips or insights that you have if you give it a go.<\/p>\n<p>As for me, I&#8217;ve been wondering about updating the Mac Mini that serves as my home server. \u00a0Is this enough to push me over the edge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things that I&#8217;ve learnt about VMware is how awesome our users are, and how willing they are to share their knowledge and expertise. \u00a0So it didn&#8217;t come as a surprise to me when I came across a detailed write-up of installing VMware ESXi 5 Server on a Mac Mini. \u00a0Anyone who&#8217;s familiar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/19\/installing-vmware-esxi-5-server-on-a-mac-mini\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">installing VMware ESXi 5 Server on a Mac Mini<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-vmware","category-vsphere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}