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Any Virtualization products support boot from USB?
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If you flip the USB hard drive or flash drive to "permanent" from "removable", most virtualization products can boot from a USB device. There are people with full ESXi installations running from flash drives.
You can flip USB devices to permanent in the BIOS on some motherboards, or there's a utility out there that does it - I can't remember exactly where, but I think it's on the website of one of the major USB flash drive makers.
You can flip USB devices to permanent in the BIOS on some motherboards, or there's a utility out there that does it - I can't remember exactly where, but I think it's on the website of one of the major USB flash drive makers.
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We have a 4-node ESXi cluster of Sun 4450s(hopefully more to come soon). We have mil-spec thumb drives plugged into the internal USB ports, and no internal storage. They have great so far.
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You could do VMWare ACE using thumbdrives, if you're talking about the ability to run a VM in a Tpye 2 hypervisor setting, where there's already a host OS. If you're talking about Type1, bare metal host machine boots, it can be done on both ESX and ESXi, for sure. You can actually buy the embedded version of ESXi with certain servers. The USB drive is internal to the system, and is pre-loaded with ESXi on it, so you can fir up the server upon delivery, and immediately have a bootable Hypervisor.
However, this USB key is serialized to the motherboard, and causes a single point of failure. If your board or the USB key dies, you have to get a new key. Minimum return time from VMWare having to ship a new key to you: 3 days. Not exactly ideal for production environments.
Possible, yes, but I certainly wouldn't use it, or recommend it if you plan to host comapny data on the hosts. If it's just a PoC kind of thing, or for home use, knock yourself out.
However, this USB key is serialized to the motherboard, and causes a single point of failure. If your board or the USB key dies, you have to get a new key. Minimum return time from VMWare having to ship a new key to you: 3 days. Not exactly ideal for production environments.
Possible, yes, but I certainly wouldn't use it, or recommend it if you plan to host comapny data on the hosts. If it's just a PoC kind of thing, or for home use, knock yourself out.