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IanZ
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‎07-11-2009 03:00 PM

Boot ESXi 4 from USB

I put ESXi 4 on a USB flash key, plugged it in Machine1 , booted it up, configured it with IP 10.10.10.110/24. Then I used a crossover cable to connect Machine1 to Machine2 that has IP 10.10.10.120/24 but I cannot ping Machine1 from Machine2. On Machine1, I used "unsupported" account to go to command-line. From there, I can ping itself 10.10.10.110 but cannot ping Machine2 either. Any suggestion? Thanks.

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AntonVZhbankov
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‎07-11-2009 03:27 PM

How many NICs do you have on these servers?


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IanZ
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‎07-11-2009 04:35 PM

There is only one NIC on them. After shut down ESXi 4 machine, unplug the USB key and reboot it to Winodows, the 2 machines can ping each other.

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DSTAVERT
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‎07-12-2009 10:59 AM

I don't think that ESXi has a lot of network self discovery. Try using dhcp. The ESXi machines will end up with a 169 address. See if they can see each other with that.

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