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Instead of retyping how to do so, I'll share an article published by fellow EE Expert @hanccocka:<br />
<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_5409-How-to-Backup-an-ESXi-installation-on-an-USB-Flash-Drive-or-SD-card-for-security-or-redundancy.html" rel="ugc">https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_5409-How-to-Backup-an-ESXi-installation-on-an-USB-Flash-Drive-or-SD-card-for-security-or-redundancy.html</a><br />
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Hope that helps.<br />
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~coolsport00
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Instead of retyping how to do so, I'll share an article published by fellow EE Expert @hanccocka:
https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_5409-How-to-Backup-an-ESXi-installation-on-an-USB-Flash-Drive-or-SD-card-for-security-or-redundancy.html [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_5409-How-to-Backup-an-ESXi-installation-on-an-USB-Flash-Drive-or-SD-card-for-security-or-redundancy.html]

Hope that helps.

~coolsport00

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<a href="https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_5409-How-to-Backup-an-ESXi-installation-on-an-USB-Flash-Drive-or-SD-card-for-security-or-redundancy.html" rel="ugc">How to Backup an ESXi installation on an USB Flash Drive or SD card, for security or redundancy.</a>
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How to Backup an ESXi installation on an USB Flash Drive or SD card, for security or redundancy. [https://www.experts-exchange.com/Software/VMWare/A_5409-How-to-Backup-an-ESXi-installation-on-an-USB-Flash-Drive-or-SD-card-for-security-or-redundancy.html]

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Dear Experts:<br />
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Installed Vmware ESXi5.0 on thumb drive for the DellR10 server the same is working fine added many VMs. Iam looking for the backup<br />
1.How to take the thumb drive installed Vmware vsphere ESXi backup, If the thumb drive is corrupted or goes faulty so that backup can be used to load the ESXi on to the server.<br />
2. How to take the configurations backup<br />
Please help.<br />
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Dear Experts:

Installed Vmware ESXi5.0 on thumb drive for the DellR10 server the same is working fine added many VMs. Iam looking for the backup
1.How to take the thumb drive installed Vmware vsphere ESXi backup, If the thumb drive is corrupted or goes faulty so that backup can be used to load the ESXi on to the server.
2. How to take the configurations backup
Please help.



vmware ESXi backup

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.