After a bit of mucking around I’ve managed to get VMware installed on my two home-brew servers. The first server was completely straightforward and installed the latest version of ESXi6.5. The second took the image, but on boot failed due to a lack of a network driver, with an error talking about nfs41client. After a bit of googling I found an article showing how to resolve this by adding a network driver to ESXi6.5. I followed the steps in the article and the host booted. If anyone else has this problem please take a look at the great blog available here – http://www.computertechblog.com/adding-realtek-r8168-driver-to-an-esxi-6-0-iso/
Unfortunately my NAS, problematic little beast that it is, has decided that the HDDs in it are no longer useful, and has failed them. I’m looking into this at the moment, however I think it is time to admit that the iomega needs to go the way of the Dodo. I’m going to attempt to fix it this week. One last chance…