Comments on: PXE Booting a Stateless ESXi Hypervisor and a Glimpse of the Future

By: Welcome to vSphere-land! » ESXi Links

Welcome to vSphere-land! » ESXi Links — Thu, 07 May 2009 13:08:30 +0000

[...] ESX Server 3i How does VMware ESXi Server compare to ESX Server? PXE Boot ESX3i Installable Edition PXE Booting a Stateless ESXi Hypervisor Boot ESXi from USB Storage ESXi 3 Server Hosts Without Swap Enabled Cannot be Added to an HA [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 May 2009 10:30:43 +0000

Sure can. You’d just need to run vCenter server in a VM on the ESXi host.

By: bg

bg — Mon, 04 May 2009 15:24:38 +0000

Can ESXi Server software and Virtual Center Server software be loaded on the same physical server?

By: Gijs

Gijs — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:27:01 +0000

For those trying the link in “(see Vinternals’ PXE Boot ESX 3i Installable Edition for more details).” and finding it broken. The link is:
http://vinternals.com/2008/01/pxe-boot-esx-3i-installable-edition/

By: Gijs

Gijs — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 04:14:27 +0000

For those trying the link in “Mike Laverick has written a great how-to on the subject” and finding it broken: The link is http://www.rtfm-ed.co.uk/docs/vmwdocs/uda-1.4.pdf

By: ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 4 Released - PXE Boot ESXi Experimentally Supported | VM /ETC

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 04:26:50 +0000

[...] Chris Wolf and Mike Dipetrillo both gave us glimpses of a PXE boot future for ESXi in the past. As both bloggers have described, it appears VMware architect Lance Berc is the man to thank for this new feature. Check out their posts for more info on what is possible and how it is done. [...]

By: Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V: First Impressions at ChrisWolf.com

Citrix Essentials for XenServer and Hyper-V: First Impressions at ChrisWolf.com — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:40:18 +0000

[...] provisioning bare metal servers. However, that will be short-lived in my opinion; I think a stateless ESX server that loads on the bare metal (in physical RAM) is an inevitable part of VMware’s future. Still, [...]

By: techman

techman — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:01:25 +0000

Great article – I’ll definitely be looking at doing this in my lab. Native support for stateless PXE bootup would be very desirable.

By: Let’s make the ESX3i boot from PXE | virtual-scene.info

Let’s make the ESX3i boot from PXE | virtual-scene.info — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:33:32 +0000

[...] More information can be found here « Statelesx [...]

By: PXE Booting a Stateless ESXi Hypervisor - Jim McCann’s Secret Sauce at ChrisWolf.com

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:47:14 +0000

[...] Community work continues on streamlining a stateless ESXi PXE boot. If you haven’t seen his comment to my original post on this topic, take a look at Jim McCann’s stateless ESXi hypervisor recipe here. Brilliant work, Jim. And thanks for sharing. [...]