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  • Pi 4 Cluster w/ ESXI

    From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to Deon on Sun Dec 27 21:37:21 2020
    Hey Deon

    So I just managed to set up my Pi 4 cluster with ESXI on each Pi, however I cannot create any VM's as the storage or datastore is at 0?

    I have a 64GB USB stick in each Pi which I installed ESXI to, and an 8GB USB stick which has the install for ESXI 7.0 on. I booted each Pi, installed ESXI and it all seemed to go ok, I log into the web ui and there's no storage available, which is weird as it booted ok off of it.

    What do I do to get storage for VM's? Can I use NFS shares as storage? I would like to install vCenter so I can really manage all the pi's as a proper cluster.

    What do you suggest I do now?

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  • From deon@1337:2/101 to MeaTLoTioN on Mon Dec 28 09:00:18 2020
    Re: Pi 4 Cluster w/ ESXI
    By: MeaTLoTioN to Deon on Sun Dec 27 2020 09:37 pm

    Howdy,

    So I just managed to set up my Pi 4 cluster with ESXI on each Pi, however
    I cannot create any VM's as the storage
    or datastore is at 0?

    I have a 64GB USB stick in each Pi which I installed ESXI to, and an 8GB
    USB stick which has the install for ESXI
    7.0 on. I booted each Pi, installed ESXI and it all seemed to go ok, I log





































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    into the web ui and there's no storage
    available, which is weird as it booted ok off of it.

    So ESXi doesnt support USB storage normally, so you need to do some trickery to





































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    get it to see it.

    I too installed ESXi with just the USB stick in the machine, but during the installation I followed a blog (I see there are many now, so I'll see if I can find it), and during the install I needed to tell the installer to not take over the whole disk - leaving space for a VMFS store.

    Also, when adding an additional disk, you need to turn off the usb arbitrator -





































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    I'll see if I can find that blog too.

    ...ëîåï

    ... A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
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  • From deon@1337:2/101 to MeaTLoTioN on Mon Dec 28 09:14:15 2020
    Re: Pi 4 Cluster w/ ESXI
    By: deon to MeaTLoTioN on Mon Dec 28 2020 09:00 am

    Howdy,

    I too installed ESXi with just the USB stick in the machine, but during
    the installation I followed a blog (I see
    there are many now, so I'll see if I can find it), and during the install
    I needed to tell the installer to not
    take over the whole disk - leaving space for a VMFS store.

    So it was the install PDF on the fling site I followed "Fling on Raspberry Pi",





































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































    and the important step was pressing "Shift-O" during the installation and setting autoPartitionOSDataSize to 8192. Did you do that?

    Since you have an 8GB usb stick, you could pull out the 64 and install again just onto that stick (and no Shift-O) would be required then - but that stick would just be the OS boot.

    Then you can follow this blog, to install the second USB stick:

    https://virtualizationreview.com/articles/2020/10/27/esxi-on-arm.aspx

    ...ëîåï

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to deon on Mon Dec 28 00:38:45 2020
    and the important step was pressing "Shift-O" during the installation
    and setting autoPartitionOSDataSize to 8192. Did you do that?

    That's it! That's what I overlooked! Man... ok reinstalling now and will let you know if that cured it, I'm certain it will.

    Thanks for that man, I knew I'd forgotten something but I couldn't see it for looking.

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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to Deon on Mon Dec 28 01:27:17 2020
    On 28 Dec 2020, MeaTLoTioN said the following...

    and the important step was pressing "Shift-O" during the installation and setting autoPartitionOSDataSize to 8192. Did you do that?

    That's it! That's what I overlooked! Man... ok reinstalling now and will letyou know if that cured it, I'm certain it will.

    Yup, that _was_ it. I can create VM's woohoo.

    Now I need to figure out how to get an installation of vCenter to manage the cluster.

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