Deprecated of USB and SD Card for ESXi installation
Back in vSphere 7 there was mention of deprecation of USB and SD Card due to reliability issue of such storage disk used for ESXi installation. Often than not, even in my home lab, I always encounter these USB sticks failure causing my host to not boot up after shutting down or doing a restart. VMware has now official state the deprecation of such support starting from vSphere 8. Which means, vSphere 8.0 will be the last version to support such storage devices as ESXi installation disk. I believe most customer would have moved off USB and SD Card since vSphere mentioned previously. More servers nowadays also support SATADOM SSD which is ideally better than a normal server HDD which might be too huge and wasted for use. Do refer to this KB on information regarding this and I hope everyone should not be considering using any more USB or SD card.