Nuc8i5bek hackintosh install#
Nuc8i5bek hackintosh update#

In fact, the screenshot above is not the default color the system ships with. Note: A really cool feature of the Hades Canyon platform is that the color of the 'Skull' logo on the top of the chassis is actually now configurable along with the power button and disk activity light. Given the number of reports from the community, I wanted to see if there was something that I could help investigate from a VMware standpoint, knowing that this is an unsupported platform and this is best effort on our end.

Nuc8i5bek hackintosh update#

No additional tweaks are required, simply follow instructions for downloading the latest BIOS update and updating your system using either the UEFI Shell or Interactive BIOS menu.

Nuc8i5bek hackintosh install#

Given this breaking news, I just finished flashing my system as I was running v50 and I can confirm that I am now able to successfully boot and install ESXi 6.7 Update 1 without any issues and I suspect this should also work for ESXi 6.5 Update 2. UPDATE (11/02/18) - After publishing this article, I had noticed Intel just released a new BIOS Update (HNKBLi70.86A) v51 and while reading the release notesВ I was surprised to find that there was a fix from Intel regarding the ESXi issue.ДЇixed the issue where an error would occur when installing VMware* ESXi versions 6.5 and 6.7. UPDATE (01/15/19) - For those interesting in passing through the iGPU in Hades Canyon, take a look at this blog post for more details. Over on the, they also confirmed ESXi runs fine on 'HVK' model and the issue seems to be isolated to the lower-end 'HNK' model. To add to the confusion, this issue was not observed with the higher-end NUC8i7HVK model which was also quite interesting. Using вЂњsimple offsetвЂќ UEFI RTS mapping policyвЂќ The ESXi Installer would boot up to a certain point and then stop with the following error: Based on the previous generation of hardware, most customers assumed ESXi should just work and went out and purchased the lower-end 'HNK' version just to find out that was not case. To be clear, the none of the Intel NUC platforms are on VMware HCL and therefore are not officially supported.Д®arlier this year, Intel released their second generation of their higher-end Intel NUCs dubbed Hades Canyon which comes in two flavors NUC8i7HNK and NUC8i7HVK, with the latter being the higher-end unit. For customers that want a bit more computing power, Intel also has their Skull Canyon platformВ which was released back in 2016 and has also gained in popularity amongst VMware Home Labbers. The Intel NUC is one of the most popular and affordable hardware platform for running vSphere and vSAN Home Labs.