Please use at your own risk.Īttempting to boot the ESXi 8.0 installer on an Apple Mac Mini 8,1 (2018) will halt the installer and result in the following exception. ĭisclaimer: VMware does NOT officially support running ESXi 8.0 on Apple Hardware nor Apple MacOS Virtualization using vSphere 8, this is purely for educational and informational purposes. You can virtualize on an Intel NUC far cheaper than you can on Mac hardware.While vSphere 7.x is the last vSphere release to officially support Apple MacOS Virtualization running on ESXi, my own curiosity got the best of me and I was just curious if ESXi 8.0 could still run on recent Apple Mac Hardware.
If you don't care to learn or have too many other things you need to do - hire out that to someone at a lower wage than you or just run things in the cloud somewhere or handle multiple hardware. If your time to learn is billable or improves your happiness or ability to seek employment - all the time you invest learning ESXi is a return on investment. With power comes pain and learning and complexity. The only question is do you want to invest the time to set that up. If you are going to virtualize, there's almost no case where ESX is more overhead or less performance than another solution. You have far more resource loss there and far less flexibility. There's nothing as powerful or capable if you try and run virtualization on top of the MacOS host OS. If you think you need or could use the ESXi features - you should back up all your data and then wipe the hardware and run ESXi. In my experience - you have to just commit. Who know, this "old man" (not talking punch cards or anything, may be able to answer some questions. Look forward to learning here and other sites. though a home project, it seriuos for me, I like to research and understand best practices. I have to use my own desktop teams for my work machine. I try to stay close to the technology, but virtualization (hand's on is new to me). I used to be an Windows engineer, 20+ years ago, when that was a new thing. Lastly a home automation server, there are some integrations between devices/protocols that require a system in the middle. I'll also build a full featured network firewall, I don't like black box or desktop firewalls. A server to store family's media, documents, and backups (mostly macs & iOS). I upped the Mac Mini to 16gb Ram 1TB SSD and 2TB SSHD. I have several devices/servers I want to build, none are resource intensive.
This is from research, not empirical data. Looking into my own question, the overhead for VMware outweighs the the benefits.
Decided to go with VMware, more an industry standard.
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