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After the announcement at VMworld 2013, the new release of VMware ESXi is now available. The option to install VMware ESXi 5.5 on USB stick is still available.<\/p>\n
The standard installation procedure remained the same as previous releases 5.x<\/strong>. and the installation media can be the classic CD-ROM or using a USB stick as well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The procedure to install the hypervisor on USB media<\/strong> follow same steps already documented for release 5.0. The guides can be found in these posts:<\/p>\n Once the installation is complete and the correct network parameters<\/strong> have been set, the hypervisor main screen appears as follow:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n After the installation, accessing the host via vSphere Client the system reports the following warning message<\/strong>:<\/p>\n System logs on host localhost.localdomain are stored on non-persistent storage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Because the logs need a persistent storage<\/strong> (ESXi resides on a removable USB media with this procedure) you need to set the directory to a persistent storage location type.\u00a0To set this parameter in ESXi, go to\u00a0Configuration > Advanced Settings > Syslog<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Identify the field Syslog.global.logDir<\/strong> and set the value to:<\/p>\n [storagename] LOGS\/hostname<\/p>\n example: [nas_lun2_raid1] LOGS\/lab-esxi01<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Click OK<\/strong> to confirm.<\/p>\n As you can notice, the warning message is\u00a0no longer shown<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Your ESXi 5.5 host is now ready to be configured<\/strong> for your virtual infrastructure.<\/p>\n After the announcement at VMworld 2013, the new release of VMware ESXi is now available. The option to install VMware ESXi 5.5 on USB stick is still available. The standard installation procedure remained the same as previous releases 5.x. and the installation media can be the classic CD-ROM or using a USB stick as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":"","linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","bluesky_did:plc:tkabz5kl2rukzdwtuongv3kz_did:plc:tkabz5kl2rukzdwtuongv3kz":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[580,720,700],"class_list":["post-7799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-esxi-en","tag-usb-en","tag-vsphere-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Procedure<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nSet the system logs location<\/h4>\n
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