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Required and supported hardware

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The PINE64 Quartz64 Model A board is a small form factor single board computer (SBC) based on the Rockchip RK3566 SoC with 4 x Cortex-A55 cores
supporting up to 8GiB RAM. The SBC also has USB2, USB3, PCIe, and GbE connectivity.
See
https://www.pine64.org/quartz64a/
The anticipated use case is "Far Edge": e.g. a virtualized IoT gateway.
Required and supported hardware
Minimally, you need:
PINE64 Quartz64 Model A
4GiB or 8GiB
1 x micro SD card for UEFI firmware
1 x USB drive for installer ISO and actual ESXi installation
1 x USB NIC
1 x USB TTL serial cable for serial console
The following hardware is supported:
USB storage
USB networking
Serial console

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  • Page 1 Info The PINE64 Quartz64 Model A board is a small form factor single board computer (SBC) based on the Rockchip RK3566 SoC with 4 x Cortex-A55 cores supporting up to 8GiB RAM. The SBC also has USB2, USB3, PCIe, and GbE connectivity.
  • Page 2 As you will note, SD cards, eMMC cards, PCIe, and onboard GbE ports are not supported. USB devices IMPORTANT: USB device can consume significant power and thus put a stress on the Quartz64's power circuits. Some USB devices could consume so much power (e.g.
  • Page 3 Now press CTRL-Z Now press Use arrow key to navigate to Serial port setup and press the ENTER...
  • Page 4 Now press : E Press again, then ENTER...
  • Page 5 Make sure settings both say to any kind of flow control. Press ENTER when done, then navigate to Save setup as dfl and press ENTER to exit out of the menus. Updating UEFI firmware...
  • Page 6 The SD card will be only used for UEFI firmware, so don't bother with a big card. Downloading firmware Download the latest community Quartz64 UEFI firmware for your board: For 4GiB boards: sdcard_4GB.img.gz For 8GiB boards: sdcard_8GB.img.gz Balena Etcher or similar (e.g. dd on Linux, BSD, or macOS) to perform a "raw" write of the firmware directly to the micro SD card. Install ESXi-Arm Follow the generic installation steps, with a few caveats.

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