Diskless ESXi Servers - Booting from USB/SD

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I've been reading a few blogs / websites about this and thought I'd ask the OCuk Server Massive on their thoughts about this. For instance, Techhead. The all-conquering ML110 G5 in my lab has been happily running ESXi from a USB stick for a year now

As pointed out in the comments on that blog, you don't get the protection of, say, a RAID1 mirror. However, you do save in server cost, power and cooling.

Discuss :D
 
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