I am tempting myself to have a play with the free VSphere and a lot of people have it booting from a USB stick. Indeed there is a nice little socket for such a thing inside the N40L micro server.
My simple question is, what is the big advantage on having ESXi on USB - Why not install it to a HDD in the system?
Surely a physical HDD is more robust and can't be accidentally removed.
I've played with it already as a VM in VMWare Workstation and installed a couple of guest OS without too much bother but decided the next step was to try it on its own dedicated machine but couldn't work out why I should want to boot from USB.
Suspect I am missing something blindingly obvious !
My simple question is, what is the big advantage on having ESXi on USB - Why not install it to a HDD in the system?
Surely a physical HDD is more robust and can't be accidentally removed.
I've played with it already as a VM in VMWare Workstation and installed a couple of guest OS without too much bother but decided the next step was to try it on its own dedicated machine but couldn't work out why I should want to boot from USB.
Suspect I am missing something blindingly obvious !