#Backup esxi usb drive how to
Here’s a picture of my Macbook Pro running vSphere ESXi, and it all works by the way, including networking!Ī very quick post on how to create an image that contains vSphere 5 ESXi Embedded with which you can use to quickly create USB sticks that have the ESXi hypervisor installed. I coincidently left an older USB key in my laptop and booted. If you want a USB key that is already installed with ESXi which saves you from going through the installation wizard, you can use the other method in this post. You will have to go through the process of installing ESXi onto the USB key, or another disk or LUN on the target server. Note that using this method creates a brand new bootable USB key for use in a new installation of vSphere ESXi. This will then leave you with the installed ESXi Hypervisor on the USB. Once booted, install the ESXi 5 Hypervisor to the USB drive (overwriting the installer).
Once completed your USB drive will boot into the ESXi 5 installer. Or if you don’t wish to use WinImage then just perform steps 1 to 4 again. IMG files using WinImage, then you can basically clone the image of the USB key to more USB keys. If you want to make more USB keys for more servers, then now is the time to create.Select the USB drive you have just formatted and click OK.Run UNETBOOTIN, select Diskimage and browse to the ESXi 5 ISO file.
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