You can find PowerShell for Windows, Mac and Linux at the Microsoft website.
You can learn more about PowerCLI at VMware’s developer portal. You’ll see in the example below that the $output_directory value is a unix-style file location. Note: PowerShell is available for Windows, Mac and Linux systems and the PowerCLI module works on all of them.
For the purposes of this blog post I’ll show using PowerCLI how to backup and restore the host configuration. I won’t show each method here but the KB does do that. Learn about why you should update Windows and shop for the latest Windows 10 laptops, PCs. There is an existing KB article on how to backup and restore your ESXi host configuration. For example, iLO and DRAC devices allow for mounting the ISO as a virtual CD you can boot from
Next, to prepare for VSAN I needed to upgrade my Virtual Center and ESXi hosts to 5.5 Update 1. Because I had already built my lab using the GA of vSphere 5.5, I reinstalled ESXi 5.5 GA onto the USB keys initially. A method to attach the ISO so you can boot from it. So to ensure I could maximize use of all disk slots, I switched my hosts to boot from internal USB keys.You have a copy of the ISO of your ESXi installation media to ensure configuration backup and restore go flawlessly.You have access to the console of the hosts via direct means or via an iLO or DRAC or other out of band method depending on your host vendor.Perform a configuration backup of each of your ESXi hosts.Any hardware you are adding falls under the VMware Hardware Compatibility List.Boot from a network using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE). These are the media options for booting the ESXi installer: Boot from a CD or DVD. No suggestion to move should be inferred.īefore you can perform the steps in this exercise, you should ensure that The partition layout can now consume up to 138 GB of disk space, which limits the space available to create a VMFS datastore.
This blog is primarily written for the vSphere Admin who has decided to move from SD cards to another boot device. They will have the most up to date official guidance. Please review the KB and blog associated with the topic of using SD cards as boot media. Even if you need to re-install ESXi on your USB flash drive, you don’t need to copy datastore data.
In my lab I have four HPE D元60 systems in a vSAN cluster. As mentioned, I needed to move off my SD cards and on to higher endurance media for my ESXi hosts.