ESXi System Storage

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Jatin Purohit to give us an ESXi System Storage overview and discuss the changes between versions. Enjoy!

Links Mentioned

• ESXi System Storage Changes
• ESXi System Storage While Upgrading
• ESXi System Storage FAQs
• ESXi 7 Storage Requirements
• ESXi 7 System Storage warnings – VMware KB Article 85615
• VMFS-L locker partition corruption
• Bootbank cannot be found at path ‘/bootbank’ errors being seen after upgrading to ESXi 7.0 U2
• Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 7.x/6.x/5.x/4.x
• Configure ESXi Dump Collector with ESXCLI
• Removal of SD card/USB as a standalone boot device option (KB Article 85685)
• https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2021/09/esxi-7-boot-media-consideration-vmware-technical-guidance.html
• https://thenicholson.com/is-my-sd-card-is-resilient-enough-for-production-esxi-usage/

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