I am new to ESXI concept and practice.
I got a question on ESXI installation:
Thanks!
(For reference, I attached three screenshots)
I don't think ESXi will install a datastore by default since it knows it was installing to a USB device. You will have to manipulate the partitions manually if you want a datastore on your USB as well. Be warned this is probably only something you want to do on a test system.
--Alan--
Read this
https://core.vmware.com/resource/esxi-system-storage-changes#section3
For the sake of the life of the USB SSD, it is better to avoid using USB boot with ESXi 7.0. VMware officially recommends using locally attached storage for the ESXi 7.0 boot device and is moving away from use of SD cards and USB drives as boot device.