• Dual Boot Esxi And Windows 10
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• Dual Boot Windows 10

So, with the coming of Ryzen and moar cores, I'm coming to think I want to move away from Windows except for gaming/Lightroom type work. I want to experiment a little, I've got an extra laptop with nothing on it at the moment (i5 4300U, has VT support) and want to see how it works. So that'd be emulated/shared iGPU and shared everything. I'm fine with that, I know performance will suffer somewhat and gaming isn't a goal for this round so no GPU passthrough. So basically, what I'd kinda like to be able to do is switch between Windows10 & Linux Desktop sorta like how you can have multiple desktop workspaces. And without running one inside the other such as with Virtual Box. That said, I'm looking at Xen Project or Xen Server (currently), and the main difference between them seems to be Xen Server already has a dom0 linux base as part of it's install, while Xen Project you choose your own linux base and boot into Xen using that as dom0.

Best way to install ESXi and Hyper-V. I just thought of the idea as a work around for the ESXi and Hyper-V dual boot. Didn't say to install or boot Windows. • Dual-Boot SCSI Systems on Linux Hosts on page 10. Profiles at boot time: • Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Window s 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server.

May 14, 2017 - hi, want to setup a lab environment on Windows 10 to learn VMWare, what is. Preferably to have vSphere, vCenter, VMWare Virtual switch and Virtual. You can then choose on reboot whether to boot with Hyper V turned on or not. You are correct, you will need to Dual Boot between different sessions.

That's my impression at least, besides the whole paid support thing you can get. I've done some reading and searching, I think what I want is possible, but are there other alternatives? I know of VMWare, but can it reasonably support on a single machine this kind of thing? I suppose it's sorta VDI, but isn't really because it's still local. You can't get the 'different OS like virtual desktops' thing. It doesn't work that way. You can install a.hypervisor.

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on the notebook,and then run Windows and Linux as VMs under that hypervisor. But then the notebook is running.the hypervisor. That's what is going to display on the screen.

The desktops of the Linux and Windows install aren't going to be directly available. You can use ssh/VNC/RDP/whatever to connect to the VMs, but you won't get them to display on the notebook itself.

So, you're back to running VirtualBox, honestly. Run Linux in a VirtualBox VM, under Windows. Because, honestly, you're going to come running back to Windows pretty quickly. Linux as a desktop OS is only.okay. It lacks software, obviously, but it lacks a lot of other nice things, too. Windows is a better desktop OS than Linux in nearly every way that matters. With modern hardware and software, I would just dual boot if you really feel like you need to switch.

Boot times are small now and virtually everything I use has great session restore capabilities etc, so a reboot is no big deal. Personally, I will stick with Windows on my own machines where I want to game and do general use stuff. Linux is coming closer as a desktop environment but if I have to buy a Windows license at any point anyway, why not just use it? I use Linux on servers all the time anyway so I don't really need to fiddle with it on my desktop.

For Linux I was planning on mostly using it as development and general environment. I get what you're saying, the hypervisor is the one that'd control the output, so if I want to view anything I need a dom0 with a full X/Desktop environment and use something like a VNC viewer or similar then. I suppose if I have GPU passthrough (and then USB passthrough) I probably could get it into a configuration where a domU guest is outputting like I expect to the different monitors, and then using something like have the 1 mouse & keyboard across both. Maybe I'll play with that for a few days to see if I can get it to work like that just for the hell of it. But with a dual boot I actually have to spend the 1 minute to wait for the system to start back up.

Well, the laptop thing was just because it's spare hardware ATM, so why not experiment with things a bit. Although I do intend to install and use it soon.

Still debating on Windows only, or dual boot, or VirtualBox Linux.sigh. Decisions, decisions.

But I think I will try do play with Xen and GPU passthrough and such as I described above whenever I change systems. Thinking about it, I probably will do that when I do redo my NAS, still keep FreeBSD as my dom0 for ZFS storage, and things like a linux domU or two for specific things. Such as CrashPlan which only has a Linux client, because it's been flaky (crashing now and then) on the FreeBSD linux-compat. And maybe try out some docker things and such for my personal development/edification. I know of VMWare, but can it reasonably support on a single machine this kind of thing? I suppose it's sorta VDI, but isn't really because it's still local. If you really want to have separate Windows and Linux environments on the same machine, running equally independently, then a hypervisor will do that for you, sure.

Starting with a totally blank disk, you could install ESXi (which is free) on the laptop, create two VMs and then just use the built-in console to access them both. That'd work fine if you don't care about graphical performance too much. But to be honest, I agree with the others that you're better off just installing Win10 and running Linux in a regular VM (through Virtual Box or VMware Workstation, or something). Going the hypervisor route doesn't seem like it actually solves any problems you're currently having. I know of VMWare, but can it reasonably support on a single machine this kind of thing? I suppose it's sorta VDI, but isn't really because it's still local.

If you really want to have separate Windows and Linux environments on the same machine, running equally independently, then a hypervisor will do that for you, sure. Starting with a totally blank disk, you could install ESXi (which is free) on the laptop, create two VMs and then just use the built-in console to access them both. That'd work fine if you don't care about graphical performance too much.

But to be honest, I agree with the others that you're better off just installing Win10 and running Linux in a regular VM (through Virtual Box or VMware Workstation, or something). Going the hypervisor route doesn't seem like it actually solves any problems you're currently having. You'd have to access them from a different system though. ESXi has no local console itself.

You'd have to access them from a different system though. ESXi has no local console itself.

Is that version dependent? I'm running ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 and both have the local console if I connect directly to them. By local console I mean you can't plug a monitor into it and manage vSphere.

You need to use the vi client on older versions or the web client on newer versions. It requires a different system (or an autoboot VM) to be able to really do anything useful. I inferred 'access them' to mean 'access the VMs', which you can do via right-click - Open Console in the VI client.

I didn't think we were talking about ESXi itself. Since this would be a physical machine in a non-enterprise environment, it's assumed that one would be hooking up a monitor and keyboard to get to the DCUI, right?

(And then there's SSH, although obviously that's not a direct replacement for the DCUI.).

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. To USB or not to USB? On Sunday evening there was a good discussion on twitter about booting ESXi from USB stick or not. A number of arguments pro and con were made and like many discussions there is no real right or wrong. I decided to write this post to give my arguments on booting ESXi from USB stick.

Booting from USB stick I’m very much in favor of booting ESXi hosts from USB stick. The USB stick is a very cheap medium and its power consumption is next to nothing. Compared to having an internal hard disk the costs are much lower. Since ESXi only needs the USB stick while booting it would be a waste of money and power to have a hard disk running in these hosts instead of an USB stick. Since ESXi only needs about 2GB, which is a fraction of the size of the smallest hard disk you can buy today, you would be wasting a lot of disk space when running from hard disk. So in hardware cost and power consumption, USB sticks are much cheaper than a hard disk.

Installation of ESXi on USB stick The install procedure between USB stick or hard disk doesn’t differ that much when timed for one server, but are in favor of USB stick when having to quickly restore a failing disk or USB stick. Normally when I install USB sticks for my customers environment, I make sure I have a few extra USB sticks as spare. I always pre-install them with ESXi without running the configuration. In other words, when a host is booted from this stick, it picks up a DHCP address and then I add it to vCenter, apply a host profile and I’m done.

Big advantage of USB install to me is that I can quickly pre-install a number of USB sticks using VMware Workstation on my desktop PC. When replacing a failing hard disk, I would have to do a full reinstall on a new hard disk and then apply a host profile to it. Now, I do admit that the difference in installation time is so small; it probably won’t be the deciding factor between USB and hard disk. Reliability of USB sticks Often when talking about booting from USB, I hear people talking about the low reliability of USB sticks. Unfortunately I cannot find any good reports that proof the reliability (or unreliability) of USB sticks and I haven’t encountered such problems myself yet, not saying nobody has had them.

I do know that some HP DLxxx series server in the past (long time ago) kept on destroying every USB stick you fed them, so I won’t say there never were problems. But even when a USB stick fails and has to be replaced, the impact is rather low. Like I already wrote, replacing the failed USB stick with a new pre-installed USB stick is very simple and takes little time. Replacing a failed hard disk would take much more time. Since ESXi doesn’t use the USB stick after boot, a failure would only pose a problem during boot time, which is when the host already was in maintenance mode and your VMs had already been moved to other hosts. So the impact is very low.

Reliability in large environments When operating in large enterprise environments, I do see a challenge when having to replace a failing USB stick on a regular basis. For small scale environments where access to the datacenter is easy, it doesn’t hurt when the admin has to get out of his chair once in a while and replace an USB stick. But for larger datacenters, where you have to report one day in advance that you want physical access, this can be a real problem. And of course, running a 1000 hosts with a 1% USB stick failure rate per year, will make you travel to the datacenter 10 times each year. But then again, how high is the hard disk failure rate? Conclusion Well, not a real hard conclusion because the failure rate of USB sticks compared to hard disk will be very decisive.

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My experiences with USB sticks until now are very good and I would always go for USB stick, unless someone can proof me otherwise. So, please respond in the comments with your experiences with USB stick and hard disk failures, or any other remarks you have. Tip: also read,. Post navigation. My understanding is that VMware backup up the ESXi configuration every hour to disk (I assume the same holds true for USB). I’m aware of one company who altered this behavior so that backups were performed every 5 minutes. In most cases, shipping logs to a syslog server works fine.

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However, when you have network failures, the logs won’t make it to the syslog server and logging locally is required. Without the required logs, VMware won’t be able to root cause the issue. I have a blog post coming up on this as I have run into it in the past.

We had a 2/3rds failure rate over 3 years with the HP Xen embedded hypervisor with the HP provided USB sticks so it’s nowhere near 1% per year. We average about 1.5% HDD failures per year but thanks to RAID those are completely non-disruptive and do not require an after hours datacenter visit to fix and doesn’t require uncabling and opening the system. Dell’s solution with the redundant SD card’s on the R710/810 is definitely the way forward since it combines the advantages of cheap solid state with RAID =). One of my customers ran in to a very interesting issue recently. They used SD cards in their HP systems that where not on the HP HCL. VM’s ended up running on hosts where the hosts and hostd thought the VM’s where powered off after a vMotion, even though the VMs where actually running (could log on to them) and esxtop showed them as running as well, very scary stuff. We opened a case and the issue was caused by some symlinks not being created on the SD cards.

VMware tech support told us they have seen this 2 more times. This is what they send us: Engineering have not completed their investigation but the errors in the logs indicate the problem was creating the symbolic links on the SD card. This task was failing and causing the VM to go into an unknown state. We have seen 2 other cases of this issue and with the other cases the customers were also running ESXi 4.x with SD/USB storage for the OS. Replacing the device resolved the issue for all instances that we have seen so far. They have an internal KB article on this which still has to be reviewed before it gets published.

We had to shut down all affected VM’s from within the guest OS and start them again to get this resolved. VMotioning them to an other host did not work since vCenter also thought the VM’s where switched of and tried to do a cold migraton, but that did not work since the files where still locked. We had to manually compare the esxtop output on all hosts and compare it to the info found in vCenter or a direct VI client connection to find out where VM’s where actually running and if they where running. Took us about two weeks to get everything sorted, very scary stuff This issue made me reconsider the use of SD and USB cards in production environments.

Pingback:. Hi David, What IBM ship on the USB key is almost certainly “ESXi Embedded” rather than “ESXi Installable”. HP and Dell do the same. In HPs case they do list a part number of a USB drive they support with their HD/SD/USB install image.

It’s about $100 for a 2GB USB drive! ( ) What the difference is between the Embedded and Installable version, other than a few pre-loaded drivers/management bits, isn’t clear so why one is supported on USB and the other isn’t is not clear. It’s probably down to VMware not wanting to support ESXi booting from shonky, straight-outta-Ebay USB keys that have previously been dipped in coffee. If you buy ESXi Embedded on a certified USB drive from your server manufacturer you’re almost certainly paying a large premium over the plain media. For lab USB solution is optimal to make testing. For enterprise a host diskless solution is interesting for different reasons: cheaper (not so much), power consuming (at least 2 HD for host are usually needed to be honest new 2.5″ HD does not consume so much), more space for RAM (some vendor has change they layout to have only few HD bay and a lot of bank space).

But which kind of diskless solution? IMHO USB/SD is more simple that a boot LAN for small and medium environment (for large, probably a boot from LAN solution or some future solution could be better). About HCL, I ask (at least) that the hardware vendor support the entire hardware, for this reason IMHO I prefer a vendor solution, like an SD slot with his memory (but first version of ESXi embedded that I’ve seen was all with their internal USB stick).

About availability now there are also some solution with a dual SD (similar to a RAID-1 configuration) But also a scheduled dd could be a way:). I’m certainly pro embedded media even after going through the (2) HP USB recalls, (Green key then Black key).

In addition to less cost from lack of spinning drives or SSD, the more I can treat the ESXi Host like an appliance, the better. I am lucky to use HP so I do have a certified solution and can run the updated image with CIM providers.

I’ve been converted 100% for over 2 years, 300+ systems. A word of warning, we have had ESXi 3.5 kill the USB due to how often logging writes and eventually it will fail. Unfortunately this is slow death and typically rears its ugly head with the Host going to not responding and taking its VMs with it. 4.x has proven to be much better with ESXi now utilizing the ram disk. I run scheduled nightly config backups using PowerCLI in case we need to restore.