![]() I found that WinImage installed just fine under Windows 7 though when I went to write an image to a USB key I was presented with a RED X with no description or hint as to what the problem may be. I thought it good to show an alternative as I have experienced issues when using WinImage under Windows 7 beta (7000) & RC (7100) 圆4 – though others report that it has run ok for them. The reason for showing the ‘DD for Windows’ method is that most postings you’ll come across only show examples of using WinImage to extract the relevant files from the ESXi ISO and to save the resultant image onto the USB key. I have used both methods successfully but others have reported some problems when using ‘DD for Windows’ under 圆4 Vista. However with the introduction of VMware ESXi 4.0 there is an option to select USB pen drive as a target during the installation process – this being the easiest method of all. ![]() The most popular approach to creating a bootable ESXi USB pen drive is to use WinImage so in this article I will be covering this method along with using an alternative Windows Command Line based method ( DD for Windows). Īs with most things in the world of computers there are multiple ways of doing the same thing and creating a bootable ESXi 3.5 or 4.0 USB pen drive is no exception. For step-by-step instructions on how to do this check out my new post here. ![]() UPDATE: VMware have now provided a much simpler method of installing ESXi onto a USB pen drive as outlined in method 3 below. Firstly though I should point out that at this stage you can only buy/create ESXi and not ESX (ie: the Service Console version) on a memory pen drive or card. There are a couple of methods to create a VMWare ESXi 3.5 or v 4.0 (vSphere) bootable USB key. ![]()
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