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Everyone on this thread should read this KB.
I was seeing this problem but only on the server with a different brand USB drive.
Are you seeing "All Paths Down" in your syslog.log? This means you lost access to the boot drive. The problem in this KB could be the culprit. The step for me that was slowing down boot was setting up the swap file. This now makes perfect sense.
What I find to be absolutely shocking: This has been a bug for 2 years. Not only is it not fixed, but they are carrying on as though it's no big deal because ESX still works. They are saying both "this is not a problem with the vmlinux driver", and "have a conversation with your USB/SD manufacturer about dropouts".
And now we're hearing booting from USB profiles is getting deprecated. Gee, is it because you don't know how to write a driver?
https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83450