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EPchelkin
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Installation ESX 3.5 on USB Flash???

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.

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bluebull2rhyme
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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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AntonVZhbankov
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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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Gerrit_Lehr
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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.

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Gerrit Lehr

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EPchelkin
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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???

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bluebull2rhyme
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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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EPchelkin
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Big-Big thanks!!!

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