Via [WayBack] Determining the ESXi installation type (2014558) | VMware KB
# esxcfg-info -e
boot type: visor-usb
That’s on my X10SRH-CF system which runs from USB.
Values you can get:
visor-pxe
indicates a PXE deployment
visor-thin
indicates an installable deployment
visor-usb
indicates an embedded deployment
If your installation is visor-thin
based (running from hard-disk), then you can convert it to visor-usb
; the steps are at [WayBack] visor-thin & vsantraces – Hypervisor.fr (in French, but Google Translate is quite OK). It skips a few of the steps mentioned in [WayBack] How To Backup & Restore Free ESXi Host Configuration | virtuallyGhetto, so for saving your current config it’s best to follow these steps:
- Shutdown or suspend all VMs
vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/sync_config
vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/backup_config
- Copy the generated backup from
/scratch/downloads
(a UUID directory under it)to a safe location
vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter
shutdown
- Install the same ESXi version on a USB disk
- Boot from the USB disk
- copy the backup to
/tmp/configBundle.tgz
vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/restore_config /tmp/configBundle.tgz
reboot
–jeroen
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