Hello to all!
I faced with interesting question for me: we bought IBM BladeCenter with HS 21 XM diskless servers with USB flash (4GB) on it with ESXi 3.5 hypervisor, additionally we bought license on ESX 3.5 Standard an so.... I tried install ESX on usb flash and had some troubles, i cannot used automatical partitioning of usb flash and did it by self:
102 Mb for /boot
1200 Mb swap
102 Mb vmkcore
542 Mb /var/log
2000 Mb /
for vmfs3 i used external FC LUN, then i had succes on my installation, but during the booting of my server (exactly on starting of VMWARE ESX server) i had failure. I had a console access to server and when i look for FS on usb flash i see all folders but no fstab!!! Is there any way to install ESX server or not.
Big thanks for any proffessional comments.
Best regards.
You can download the ESXi from this link under "VMware ESXi"..if you are registered with VMware give the username and proceed
This can help you with the install .http://www.petri.co.il/how-do-you-install-vmware-esx-server-3i-esxi.htm
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ESX on flash makes no sense, let it be ESXi. No technical difference except lack of COS.
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VMware vExpert '2009
I would highly recommend running ESXi on it. Even if there is a way to get this setup running (which I doubt to be honest) there is no VMware support and no advantages at all.
Kind Regards,
Gerrit Lehr
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Ok, big thanks... )))) so could you provide me with right solution how to again install esxi - download from the site and install???
You can download the ESXi from this link under "VMware ESXi"..if you are registered with VMware give the username and proceed
This can help you with the install .http://www.petri.co.il/how-do-you-install-vmware-esx-server-3i-esxi.htm
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Big-Big thanks!!!