Does the server have light-out mgmt? You can upgrade the BIOS via that. That takes care of the host. ESXi updates can be done through a vCenter.

In a previous article, I discussed the release of VMware's ESXi on Arm Fling. In this article, I will give an overview of my experience installing it. The ESXi on Arm Fling site has a list of ...

So i have a bunch of macpro 3,1 (2008) machines around and in the very serious need of getting a virtualised setup going for our server. I have read on the vmware forums that someone got ESXi running ...