topic Re: uninstall vmware esxi 6.5 from a HP microserver gen8 in Operating System - VMware

uninstall vmware esxi 6.5 from a HP microserver gen8

cantaloupe — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 02:53:35 GMT

Hello,

I am new to microservers. I bought a used HP microserver gen8 from Ebay and I want to install centos on it. I put in 4 new HDDs into the machine and configured them as in raid 1 format with 2 logical drives and 2 data arrays.

When I turn on the machine I can see that vmware hypervior esxi is installed. This shows up even when no HDD is installed into the machine so I think it may be installed into the bios?

My question is, how can I uninstall the vmware from the machine? Right now I can't boot from usb, so if I uninstall the machine maybe I can install from USB?

Thank you for your help in advance.

Re: uninstall vmware esxi 6.5 from a HP microserver gen8

Torsten. — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 06:51:47 GMT

I'm sure there is an SD card installed. Please check and remove. You can even overwrite or adjust the boot order. Press F11 during boot.

Re: uninstall vmware esxi 6.5 from a HP microserver gen8

cantaloupe — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 08:28:47 GMT

I pulled the sd card out (32gb HPE), but now vmware won't load, and it can't boot from the (front upper) USB key either... Is there a way to flash the OS onto the SD card directly? or am I missing something?

Thank you

Re: uninstall vmware esxi 6.5 from a HP microserver gen8

Torsten. — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 11:33:38 GMT

If you want to install something onto the SD card the card need to be installed

Did you overwrite the bootorder? (press F11)