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Hi Andrew,<br>so the order of reimporting VM is not relevant?<br>Thank you!
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The VMs will just sit their on the datastore (do not erase).<br />
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Right Click the VMX, Add to Inventory, or Register with Inventory, depending on which client you are using.
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I would recommend running RVTools against the environment, it will give all of the information regarding the host and the location of the VMs. &nbsp;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.<br><br><br>
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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?<br />
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?<br />
Or should I do something different?<br />
Thank you very much
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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

Reinstalling ESXi due to damaged flash

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