ESXi minimum hardware requirements

Has anyone tried installing ESXi on hardware other than whats recommened by vmware? I have an hp 4400 workstation with a ton of storage and was going to try it this weekend. Its a single core which from what I understand will still work. Thoughts?
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Sweet, I have an hp compaq d530 and its on the list!
I have a much more difficult time with installing older guest OSes that don't like the BusLogic SCSI drivers that VMWare uses (setup always hangs at the PnP detection stage). I found a KB article that has a possible solution, but I haven't tried it yet: Connecting to a Generic SCSI Device
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Use this floppy image to add the SCSI driver during the text boot process: http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmscsi-1.2.0.4.flp
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Recent: 11/2019 - RHCSA (RHEL 7); 2/2019 - Updated VCP to 6.5 (just a few days before VMware discontinued the re-cert policy...)
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Now with that said, the questions been asked before and it's basically impossible to install Win9x on either SCSI or SATA. Sorry for the bad news.
Do I want to ask what the heck you're doing living in the 90's?
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The 90's? I'm still working with stuff from the 80's! As long as these systems are still being used for real work I've got to test software against them. At least I don't need to care about the OSes that don't have a native network stack.
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You don't have to support them, you can always limit your support to the most say recent 10 years
I have a number of VAX VMS systems you can test against - they have a networking stack afterall - you even get to choose between TCP/IP or DECnet!
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