vSphere 5 whitebox: ESXi upgrade with USB installer
Finally took some time to upgrade my ESXi whitebox which is running on ESXi 4.1 with custom driver to support the onboard Marvell LAN chipset. The installation screen was different in this case and I took some pictures using my mobile. My CD Rom happen not to work and I need to create a ESXi installer onto an UDB Drive to install on another USB Drive. First I would just go through the tools I used to create a USB installer. I use unetbootin version 5.55 and use the ESXi 5.0 installable image to create the USB installer. This time it works. Unlike in ESXi 4.1, it has to be using version 4.94, any higher version breaks the installation. My ESXi 4.1 was installed on a 2GB USB disk. So with ESXi 5.0 which required 4GB scratch disk, it is definitely not possible. I did some google of cause and found USBIT . What it does is, it creates a backup (clone image) of my 2GB disk and restore to my 8GB disk. That boots up proper. But my 2GB disk cannot b...