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To be honest, there’s nothing remotely difficult in all of this. In this post, I’ll be using VMware Workstation Pro running on Windows to create a VM which I’ll use to install ESXi on a flash drive. Once you get to the part where it asks you to select the drive where you want ESXi installed, select the USB flash drive and the installer will happily install ESXi on it.īut since easy doesn’t cut it, we’re going to do this the hard way, well, maybe just a little bit more interesting. Insert a bootable ESXi CD/DVD disc, stick in an empty USB flash drive, power up the server and wait for the ESXi installer to kick in. The easy way is to use a physical server equipped with an optical drive. We are actually booting a working instance of ESXi from a USB flash drive in this case.
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Note that this is different from creating a bootable ESXi installer USB flash drive which is what I cover in How to Create a Bootable ESXi USB Flash Drive using Linux.
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Today’s post covers the process of installing ESXi on a USB pen/flash drive. This may also apply when ESXi is deployed to servers with local storage since you might still wish to keep ESXi off any of the server’s disks.
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Installing ESXi on a USB device such as a flash drive or SD card, is a popular deployment method especially with disk-less servers. In Deploying vSphere ESXi 6.5, I discuss the various ESXi deployment methods and options.