Vmware
How To Install and Boot VMWare VSphere/ESXi from Persistent Memory (or not)
In a previous post I described how to install and boot Linux using only Persistent Memory, no SSDs are required. For this follow on post, I attempted to install VMWare VSphere/ESXi v7.0u2 onto the persistent memory.
TL;DR - It doesn’t work. The installer doesn’t list the PMem devices, and I was unable to find a way to manually select the PMem device(s).
I assume you followed the previous post to configure sector namespaces that we’ll use to install ESXi.
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How To Install and Boot VMWare VSphere/ESXi from Persistent Memory (or not)
In a previous post I described how to install and boot Linux using only Persistent Memory, no SSDs are required. For this follow on post, I attempted to install VMWare VSphere/ESXi v7.0u2 onto the persistent memory.
TL;DR - It doesn’t work. The installer doesn’t list the PMem devices, and I was unable to find a way to manually select the PMem device(s).
I assume you followed the previous post to configure sector namespaces that we’ll use to install ESXi.
Read More