Re: [Nolug] VMWare ESXi on a Flash Drive

That is seriously priced thumb drive!!!

And this is something I really need to test, even though I doubt I can
find internal USB connector in the blade box (with 3 blades) I have been
installing the "installable" version this week. External will do fine.....

One of the biggest reasons is the memory consumption...... I was
wondering where some of the documentation got the 32Mb footprint because
I was observing memory consumption between 490-550Mb without any VM
servers configured..... just plain ESX server.....

I wonder if you need 3 thumb drives, one for each blade, or could they
all possibly boot off of a same media.....

Petri

Chris Jones wrote:
> 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:
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>>> Now that is COOL.
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