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I want to be able to have a default configuration on a USB key that I can boot hosts to.<br />
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Would it be possible to create a universal USB key for ESX server hosts?<br />
Could the key be taken out of a host once it has booted to it?
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I want to be able to have a default configuration on a USB key that I can boot hosts to.

Would it be possible to create a universal USB key for ESX server hosts?
Could the key be taken out of a host once it has booted to it?

Universal ESX USB Key

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.