

USB Data cable (yeah, got bitten by the “power only” USB cables).In case you haven’t gathered by now the plan is to use the Android phone as a USB storage device to boot the servers off and install my ISO(s). So in my impatience I wanted a solution and this is what I came up with I’m bad for keeping old tech around incase they one day may come in handy again - and my old Samsung Galaxy Nexus fit the bill perfectly - so after an hour on the charger and years of updates being installed it was ready to rock.


I don’t have any USB drives because I use cloud storage for that kind of thing and they had CD drives - what is this, the dark ages, does my mac look like it has room for a CD burner? No iDRAC Ent means no virtual console, or virtual media. While the iDRAC Ent cards were on their way to me I couldn’t help but want to install ESXi on these things so they were ready to go (old Dell R610s are seriously good value now). I found myself in the position recently whereby I had two hosts I bought off eBay (as one does for labs), they arrived, I had great plans… But no iDRAC Enterprise :(
