the time has finally come where i need to move on to ESXi. i decided if i must do it, then i might as well install it on an SD card. so i went to check our r710’s and they don’t have the internal sd card module. what we paid for instead was the vflash for the dracs (that we haven’t even used yet). such a shame…

it’s not really surprising we missed this option on the r710 configuration page because it’s all the way at the bottom under “media”. on the r620 configuration it is much more visible under “internal SD module”. so we must not have been the only ones to miss it.

anyways, the good news is that they’re only 60-ish dollars.

i’ve noticed that you can download an esxi installer from dell and also vmware. so far, i’m not sure which route is the best to go (or even if there’s any difference). i’ll probably try out both.