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Installation on blade server with USB integrated flash posted: Jun 3, 2009 2:14 AM

Click to view EPchelkin's profile Novice 9 posts since
May 20, 2009

Hi to all, i faced with the following trouble, we use blade servers hs21 with no disks, but with integrated USB flash 4Gb, how can i perfom new installation ESXi3.5 on usb flash?

The esxi was installed on it but i crashed the image on it and now i'm trying to install a fresh copy of esxi3.5 but during installation i had a screen with fatal error - "there is no disk to image write"???

How can i solve this problem? or there is no any way?

Big thanks for any response.

Click to view Dave.Mishchenko's profile Guru User Moderators vExpert 9,151 posts since
Nov 15, 2005
The regular ESXi 3.5 install CD won't be able to write to a USB flash drive. Instead you'll want to get an IBM recovery CD - http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/supportsite.wss/docdisplay?brandind=5000008&lndocid=MIGR-5078691.

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