#ESXI USB BOOT UPDATE#
NOTE: Refer to VMware KB 52477 , Installation Instructions and Important Information Guide and vSphere Update Manager Installation and Administration Guide to ensure your host meets the minimum requirements to support Quick Boot. $ /usr/lib/vmware/loadesx/bin/loadESXCheckCompat.py Dell EMC recommends end users to run this script manually to make sure that the configuration is compatible for quickboot. The following script verifies that the hardware and softwareconfiguration of a given host supports Quick Boot. Please refer to vSphere Update Manage Installation and Administration Guide for instructions on configuration/ use this feature.ĭell EMC and VMware have worked together to enable Quick Boot on the following platforms. For example, applying an ESXi security patch or upgrading the ESXi hypervisor will most likely not require you to have the host/hardware rebooted. This feature helps to speed up server management workflows which do not require a hardware reboot. When you initiate a Quick Boot, ESXi restarts in a way similar to normal reboot operation but the hardware does not go through the normal process of reboot operations such as POST, firmware load, re-initialization of hardware resources, reload ACPI/SMBIOS tables etc. Unlike a regular host reboot operation (warm or cold), Quick Boot does not involve going through the actual hardware reboot process. Now press the restore button and point to the backup file.Īccept the restore message and wait out the process.Īs you can see the partitions are ok and have 7.64GB left of unused space.Īfter this, you successfully backup up your USB ESXi drive and restored it to a bigger drive.VMware Quick Boot is a new type of "soft" reboot mechanism introduced in vSphere 6.7. This is crucial to prevent partition failures or non-bootable drives. Plugin the new drive after the backup is complete.As you can see this drive is a 16GB drive.īefore dumping back the backup be sure to enable the option: Fix GPT after Restore.
#ESXI USB BOOT INSTALL#
Search ESXi iso and load it, then you should see the new volume label 'ESXI-6.5. Install ESXi on a SD Card or USB Stick (Boot ESXi From SD Card/USB Stick) Booting from SD cards is one of my favorite methods of booting ESXi. In this guide, I will dump the backup to a 16GB drive. Run Rufus and select the configuration as the image below. This has to have an equal size or bigger. Now click on backup and give the file a name. Select device mode, select the drive, and click on backup. Plug in the original USB flash drive and get that. (I was already playing with the newly released Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in VMware Workstation, so I’ll be using that) Plug in the new USB flash drive and get the device address (/sdb). Download a linux distro of your choice and boot your PC from the CD.
#ESXI USB BOOT HOW TO#
Plugin your source drive and start USB Image Tool. How to clone ESXi USB install to new USB drive. To do this I used the application USB Image tool on windows.
Next you’ll be prompted to replace menu.c32, answer Yes. Click the icon that looks like a CD to select the ESXi ISO image you’ve downloaded. Open Rufus and in the Device drop down select your USB flash drive. Connect your flash drive to your computer. There are multiple guides on this but most of them show comments of not bootable sticks any more or that the partition layout is in the wrong order. Download VMware ESXi ISO image from VMware. Being lazy I did not want to reinstall it so I tried cloning. I was unable to write any data to the drive anymore but still was able to read data.
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