Hi all, i have an dell optiplex 7050 micro running as an ESXi 6.5 hypervisor
my hypervisor used to be proxmox but i ran into some problems so i just use esxi and its been running fine ever since, now my question is proxmox use debian as the host os so i can monitor the temperature using lm-senors
and my pc being a normal pc doesnt have any ipmi capabilities so esxi can’t monitor the temp, does anyone knows any “drivers” for esxi so that it can read the temps or an port of lm-sensors so i can install it at my esxi server,
Any help would be appreciated
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Why ESXI 6.5?
It’s about 10 years old and well out of support from VMware; there’s a pretty good chance it does not support your hardware if its more recent than 2016.
It has a huge number of security vulnerabilities - you really should get off it.
If you’re looking for somethng that’s actually maintained, maybe try a linux distro with VMware workstation on it - Workstation is now free as of a few months ago and can run sort of headless via CLI tools and be maintained from remote with another copy of Workstation.
Or even better, well… KVM, etc.
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i need single hdd rdm passthorugh and the only version that seems to support it is esxi 6.5, i have tried 6.7 7.0 and 8.0 and it seems to only works on 6.5, i will try your suggestion about workstation, thanks!