VMware Communities: Message List - ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

pbraren — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 03:45:19 GMT

Glad to say that 3i installable can be made to work on a USB key (although it's not supported by VMware):

http://communities.vmware.com/blogs/Knorrhane/2008/01/21/installing-esx-3i-on-usb-stick#cf

Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

doubleH — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:25:32 GMT

great. thanks dave.

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Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

petedr — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:21:58 GMT

looks like limited hardware being supported so far as well.

From the web site

+ESX Server 3i Installable is supported only on Dell 2950 (full support) and on
HP DL380 G5 (experimental support)+

Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

Dave.Mishchenko — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:17:40 GMT

3i comes in both an embedded version and one that can be installed to a supported hard drive. Basically 3i is 3.5 without the service console. 3i will have the Remote Command Line Interface (Remote CLI) instead of the SC and that will allow the footprint to drop to 32 MB (I believe the HD install only requires 750 MB).

Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

doubleH — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:10:07 GMT

i'm a little confused. so what is the difference from the local install of 3.5 and 3i? i understand 3i will come embedded from the server vendors.

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Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

ZippyDaMCT — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 17:42:20 GMT

Well it seems to work in VMware Workstation 6.0.2 Build 59824 pretty well as a WS6 VM, see pics.

Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

king@it.ibm.com — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:56:02 GMT

Don't confuse the installable version with the 3i that will come pre-loaded with some selected hardware platforms from system vendors. The installable version (at least right now) is only installable on standard local drive media. The "embedded" release will be provided by system vendors on an internal USB key.

I think there is a bit of confusion there (and as far as I can say VMware is confusing people too with some of their messages).

Massimo.

Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

jayolsen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:31:50 GMT

From the 3i setup guide, page 19.

You use the ESX Server 3i CD‐ROM to install the ESX Server 3i software onto a SATA,

SAS, or SCSI hard drive. Installing on a USB drive, an IDE/ATA drive, or a SAN‐based

drive, such as FC SAN or iSCSI SAN, is currently not supported.

Re: ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

ZippyDaMCT — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:59:55 GMT

wooo hooooo got it cheers for the heads up ;0)

ESX 3i Installable now released, can only be installed to hard drive?

sgmess — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:11:15 GMT

Hello all,

I've seen that ESX 3i Installable has just been released but is only installable to hard drives, will there be a version released in the future that can be installed to USB keys?

I'm aware a beta version was given away at VMWorld on a USB key and HP indicated that all their new servers came with internal USB ports for using this type of functionality.

Thanks