dfosbenner
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I am using ESXi 5.5.  Here's the scenario I had in my head:

I connect remotely via DRAC (Dell remote access), or HP ILO.  I patch ESXi, reboot it, and the server doesn't come back up.  Maybe it's a PSOD.  Maybe worse.  From what I've read, these little USB drives do fail.  I keep a bootable ESXi install CD in the drive of my hosts.  Using my DRAC, I can specify to boot from the CD, and then do a new install & patch of ESXi to the second USB drive.  Takes about 30 min, bring it up, either restore my config or re-add my VMs, and I'm back online.

That was the idea, anyway.  I don't have clusters, HA, etc.

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