http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane Comment Feed for Knorrhane on post 'Installing esx 3i on usb stick' Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:27:07 GMT Clearspace 1.10.12 (http://jivesoftware.com/products/clearspace/) 2009-02-19T20:27:07Z http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane/2008/01/21/installing-esx-3i-on-usb-stick#comments-10810 I have done this as well, but crashed after booting with "No local disks found"<br /> <br /> regards Harry Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:27:07 GMT HMitschele http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane/2008/01/21/installing-esx-3i-on-usb-stick#comments-10810 2009-02-19T20:27:07Z http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane/2008/01/21/installing-esx-3i-on-usb-stick#comments-2950 Thank you for this post! Found it after creating my own way of doing it (using crude cloning), then found another person documenting yet another way to do it, here's the URL to see those 2 other ways:<br /> <a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.lamnet.nl/wordpress/?p=35">http://www.lamnet.nl/wordpress/?p=35</a><br /> <br /> Hope this info helps others give it a try, as while it's unsupported, it's a great excercise for learning 3i, and reducing energy consumption (saving many watts by avoiding RAID5 of 6 15K RPM U320 drives I had spinning on one ESX host). Oh yeah, remember to use a rear USB port, as I've learned the hard way: many machines can't boot from media mounted in front USB ports. Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:41:59 GMT pbraren http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane/2008/01/21/installing-esx-3i-on-usb-stick#comments-2950 2008-02-05T03:41:59Z