Hi everyone, as the title says my settings are not persistent, all my VMs and datastores disappear, and my license is no longer applied every time I reboot. I think I have narrowed down the issue to having ESXi installed on a USB and have found this article https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2004784
I also found this post but was unable to actually save the boot.cfg (https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Vmware-ESXi-7-0-Settings-changes-are-not-saved-af...)
- I have tried editing boot.cfg via ssh but it's not in the /bootbank/ directory
- I tried editing the settings via the UI but they are not persistent after reboot
- I have tried holding Shift+O during startup and entering (kernelopt=autoPartition=TRUE skipPartitioningSsds=TRUE autoPartitionCreateUSBCoreDumpPartition=TRUE allowCoreDumpOnUsb=TRUE) the settings were not applied when I looked at them in the UI
- I have also plugged the USB into a windows machine and edited the boot.cfg (this is what it looks like https://pastebin.com/JyyBu0M6) but still have the same issue
I'm totally stuck here, does anyone have some insight?
