You would boot, as ESXi isn't a LCC compatible OS to deploy. 

I will be receiving completely blank disks on the 21st and will try it when those arrive. In the meantime is there any way that I could bypass all of this by just factory resetting it or something? I don't need the OS on it and need to completely wipe all users and data stored on the drives.

Hi,

If you do not need the data and would only like to wipe data, that would be some sort easy. Go into your RAID controller BIOS, delete all of the virtual disk (VD). Then create a simple RAID with all the disk, use the disk initialization option upon creating VD. Install an OS using Lifecycle controller. And you are done wiping data. 

Let me know if you have any questions.

I think this is probably what I'm going to do. The only problem is I'm not sure which OS to use. Do you have any recommendations? I'm not looking to spend much (or any if possible as we are just selling them on eBay)

I appreciate your guys' help with this!

Or is there a way I can just completely remove the OS? I cleared all the drives and set up the new RAID as you described before. Now all I need to do is take care of the OS

If the OS was on the drives you just created the new Virtual Disk on, then as long as you initialized the Virtual Disk, upon creation then it formated the drives which would have deleted the OS.

Please ignore the last message, I tried to edit it but an unexpected error prevented me from doing so. This is what I meant to say:

I do not think the OS is on the drives. Three of the other servers have no HDD's installed at all and still have the OS active, so I believe it would follow the same standard. Is there any way to double-check this? Also, I need to remove the OS from the other servers as well, but cannot remove it through the Virtual Disk method as there are no drives there. I assume it would be the same method as I am going to have to use on the one with the drives, but I just wanted to throw that in there in case it is important.

Thank you

Hi,

If the OS is not installed on the drives, and you have removed all the drives out from the server and still it's booting, meaning it's either using a IDSDM (SD card boot) or an internal USB boot. Check if there is any other hardware in the server that is a storage, remove that. 

Removing the drives from this one, the server did not boot, so you were correct about that. I will attach pictures as to how I tried to wipe the drives and maybe you can see where I made the mistake:

Following this, I powered down with the power button. Restarting it lead to scanning for devices screen.

Thank you!

Before powering down did you click on the Create Virtual Disk, seen on your last screen shot?

I did select Create Virtual Disk. Looking at the active Virtual Disks, there is always the newly created Virtual Disk with all of my specifications when looking at the configuration menu. Is there any way I might have corrupted the hard drive with my edit and that's why it keeps trying to boot whenever I wipe all of them or something along those lines?

Thank you!

Hi,

If you have corrupted any drives, the controller will prompt error logs and status about the drive. If they are on online or ready status, they are good.

Let me know if you have any other questions.

Can you show screenshots of the boot process you're seeing? Also, are you seeing anything mentioning PXE?

They are online and ready, yet it still attempts to boot... I just don't know whats going on with it. I could go through and remove all of the drives and format them on my laptop. Would that help?

Thank you