ESXi on ARM was released. Is it possible download from Flings ESXi Arm Edition.

Instalation Fling on Raspberry Pi 4

Preparation

Raspberry PI EEPROM update

Dowload Raspberry Pi OS from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ and update EEPRON

sudo rpi-eeprom-update -a

Create and setup UEFI on SD card

• format SD card with FAT32
• Download latest offcial RPi firmware
• Download RPi 4 UEFI firmware
• Merge it together with script:

md SDcard
7z.exe x firmware-master.zip firmware-master\boot\*
xcopy firmware-master\boot\* SDcard\*  /E /H /C /I /Y

del SDcard\kernel*.img

7z.exe x RPi4_UEFI_Firmware_v1.20.zip -oSDcard\* -y

• For Raspberry PI 4GB only: Append the config.txt file on the SD Card and append gpu_mem=16:
• Copy directory SDcard to root directory on SD card
• Boot Raspberry Pi from SD card

UEFI firmware configuration

• Disable 3GiB memory limit
  • Device Manager / Raspberry Pi Config / Advanced Config / Limit RAM to 3 GB
  • The Raspberry Pi 4 UEFI is configured with a default limit of 3GiB of memory for OS compatibility purposes. It is neccesary to disable it.
• Console Preference Selection
  • Device Manager / Raspberry Pi Config / Device Manager / Console Prefence Selection / Display Configuration
    • Virtual 800×600 – enable it
    • Virtual 1024×768 – enable it

Install ESXi-Arm

• Basic instalation ESXi
  • Enable ssh
  • Setup ntp – IMPORTANT make sure that host has clock synchronized
• Add ESXi ARM host to vCenter
• Enabling vMotion
• Create a VM – example Ubuntu for ARM

Known issues

• JUMBO frame MTU – The ESX driver for Pi4’s NIC on the SoC (genet) currently does not support jumbo frames.
• Native MAC Learning is not supported ???
• /bin/netdbg does not work – Could be fixed with
  • https://flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition/bugs/1113

[root@localhost:~] netdbg
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/bin/netdbg", line 32, in <module>
    RootCommandGroup()
  File "/build/mts/release/bora-16966451/bora/build/esxarm64/release/vmvisor/sys
  File "/build/mts/release/bora-16966451/bora/build/esxarm64/release/vmvisor/sys
  File "/build/mts/release/bora-16966451/bora/build/esxarm64/release/vmvisor/sys
  File "/build/mts/release/bora-16966451/bora/build/esxarm64/release/vmvisor/sys
  File "/build/mts/release/bora-16966451/bora/build/esxarm64/release/vmvisor/sys
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'locale'

[root@localhost:~] export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
[root@localhost:~] netdbg
Usage: netdbg [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Command line interface to access settings on ESX datapath

Options:
  --help  Show this message and exit.

Commands:
  vswitch

• vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS) Workaround for ESXi-Arm in vSphere 7.0 Update 1