https://holyarmy.org/tags/esxi/ Recent content in Esxi on Holyarmy.org Hugo en-US Sat, 23 May 2015 18:51:55 +0000 https://holyarmy.org/2015/05/esxi-on-an-asus-chromebox-m004u/ Sat, 23 May 2015 18:51:55 +0000 https://holyarmy.org/2015/05/esxi-on-an-asus-chromebox-m004u/ <p>I recently stumbled across the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IT1WJZQ/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B00IT1WJZQ&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=benjasherm-20&amp;linkId=GCUVONIR4FLBOQSI">ASUS CHROMEBOX-M004U</a>. It’s a Chromebox, which is cool in its own right, but I was interested in using it’s dual-core Celeron Haswell CPU, expandable RAM (up to 16GB), and M2 Sata storage for other purposes.</p> <p>First things first, you’ve got to enable the box to run things other than ChromeOS… Thankfully that’s well documented ( <a href="http://kodi.wiki/view/ASUS_Chromebox">http://kodi.wiki/view/ASUS_Chromebox</a> ), so I won’t go into detail at this time. But I will say, I used the standalone, custom coreboot firmware and chose the headless option, as my current planned use cases are for servers. Apparently you want non-headless if you plan to use the box as a Plex Home Theater or Kodi box. Oh, also, I set it to boot first from USB if  available.</p>