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First, connect to the ESXi host via SSH.Ģ. ( fdisk while present is no longer supported as it doesn’t do GPT).ġ.

This meant a bit of mucking about with partedUtil, which is the ESXi command line way of fiddling with partition tables. In my case the disk already had partitions on it so I had to make some changes to the instructions in that blog post. you use the USB disk entirely as a datastore. This blog post is about presenting a USB disk without ESXi installed on it – i.e. Installing ESXi 6.5 to a USB is straight-forward.Īnd this blog post is a good reference on what to do so that a USB disk is visible as a datastore. I couldn’t get any VMs to run off the USB disk but I spent some time getting the USB disk presented as a datastore so wanted to post that here. The use of a USB stick allows the administrators to save plenty of time for the hypervisor installation because it's faster compared to CD-ROM drives.Recently I wanted to install ESXi 6.5 on a USB disk and also use that disk as a datastore to store VM on. When the installation completes successfully, the ESXi console is displayed. The installation process begins loading the ESXi installer. Set the correct boot sequence in the server’s BIOS settings, insert the just created USB stick and power on the server. When the process has completed, click Exit to close UNetbootin. ) to select the image to use.ĮSXi files are being copied to the USB drive.

Run the UNetbootin tool and select Diskimage option.

A tool like UNetbootin to make the USB stick bootableįrom VMware website download the VMware ESXi 6.5 ISO file.

A USB stick with at least 4 GB capacity.

To create the USB installer you need the following: The use of the USB drive makes the installation process faster compared to the classic CD-ROM drive. Today not all servers are equipped with a CD-ROM drive and the installation of VMware ESXi 6.5 can be easily performed using a USB stick.