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ESXi Whitebox – 2

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Sangram

This is the second ESXi Whitebox I have built and configured. The Hardware — ASUS Motherboard M4A88T-M — AMD Phenom II X4 970 – 3.5GHz — 2 x 4 GB DDR3 RAM — 500 GB Seagate HDD The Software — ESXi 5.0 Build 469512 Changes in BIOS — BIOS Version:2403 — Secure VM mode –…

Mount USB Drive in ESX 3.5

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Sangram

1. Connect the USB device to the ESX server machine. 2. Run the command dmseg at the Service Console, and then check the output for the device id given to the USB drive, for example ‘/dev/sdb‘. 3. Run ‘fdisk -l /dev/sdb (or whatever dmseg gave for the device)’ to ensure that the FAT32 partition can…