If a diskless server is also configured as stateless, it will use up to 4GB of RAM for a ramdisk-based scratch partition.
When booting from USB/SD keep in mind that once ESXi is loaded, it runs from memory and there is very little ongoing I/O to the boot device. This naturally raises a concern about the life span of the USB/SD device. Unlike a local disk or SAN LUN, USB/SD devices are sensitive to excessive amounts of I/O as they tend to wear over time.Now that I have the image copied over to the USB drive, I can insert it into the back of the Gigabyte BRIX and boot it into the. Install ESXi on to a Gigabyte Brix (or Intel NUC).Download VMs – Download the backup data into multiple virtual file formats such as VMDK, flat-VMDK, VHD, VHDX and RAW. Once attached, the disk will be accessed through the target VM. Disk Level Recovery – Restore the individual disk of the backed up VMware VM by attaching it to the target VM in a same or different ESXi or vCenter server.Select Device-Device to work directly from disk-to-disk or USB-to-USB mode. Choose your keyboard, keymap and start Clonezilla. Connect the LiveCD to the system and boot the VM.
