Re: [Nolug] VMWare ESXi on a Flash Drive

The host OS is 32MB and stays on the thumb drive. The system boots
off the thumb drive, which simply contains a light copy of linux and
some vmware software, and the OS's are stored on SAN/iSCSI or local
SCSI/RAID arrays. VMWare's intention with the free ESXi product is
for you to install it on the hard drive. To get the thumb drive
version, you have to buy the $500 "ESXi Embedded" product as part of a
Dell or HP server. Basically, this is a hack to let you install it on
a thumb drive and get the same functionality as the "embedded"
version, but with the free "installable" version.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:22 PM, Jonathan Roberts <gremln007@gmail.com> wrote:
> I saw mention about unhooking your drives. I missed a lot of the hype on
> this, so can someone explain: where do you store the VM's? Do you use SAN
> or iSCSI?
>
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 9:48 PM, Dustin Puryear <dustin@puryear-it.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Now that is COOL.
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