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Reinstalling ESXi due to damaged flash
Hi, we have a Dell PowerEdge with ESXi 6.7 on an USB stick. We noticed several errors related to usb, so probably this host will not survive a reboot. We have a couple a VM (vcsa, mail server, domain controller). I wondering: how can I approach the ESXi reinstallation to a new USB stick?
In I reinstall ESXi ad I reconfigure networking, could I simply importing VMs (that resides on SATA internal disks)? VCSA virtual machine should be imported first?
Or should I do something different?
Thank you very much
In I reinstall ESXi ad I reconfigure networking, could I simply importing VMs (that resides on SATA internal disks)? VCSA virtual machine should be imported first?
Or should I do something different?
Thank you very much
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The VMs will just sit their on the datastore (do not erase).
Right Click the VMX, Add to Inventory, or Register with Inventory, depending on which client you are using.
The VMs will just sit their on the datastore (do not erase).
Right Click the VMX, Add to Inventory, or Register with Inventory, depending on which client you are using.
I would recommend running RVTools against the environment, it will give all of the information regarding the host and the location of the VMs. If you have a dual slot SD card on the Dell server you can configure RAID on both of the SD cards and avoid this type of situation.
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so the order of reimporting VM is not relevant?
Thank you!