Change Esxi Embedded To Esxi Installable - VMware ESX 4.0 - UPGRADE GUIDE UPDATE 1 Update Manual

vSphere Upgrade Guide
Procedure
1 Choose a method to replace ESXi Embedded with ESX.
If you do not want to preserve the virtual machines on the datastore, disable ESXi Embedded and
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install ESX. See the ESXi Embedded Setup Guide and the ESX Installation Guide.
If you do want to preserve the virtual machines on the datastore, migrate virtual machines from an
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ESXi host to an ESX host. See Basic System Administration.
2 Reregister the virtual machines with the ESX host by using vSphere Client.
See Basic System Administration.

Change ESXi Embedded to ESXi Installable

You might choose to replace ESXi Embedded with ESXi Installable. ESXi Installable is a physical server that
contains an ESX image installed on a local hard drive.
I ESXi Installable and ESXi Embedded can exist on the same host. However, having them on the
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same host causes ESXi upgrades to fail, so coexistence is not supported.
C Overwriting the ESXi Embedded image might cause you to lose drivers installed by your hardware
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vendor.
Prerequisites
You must have an ESXi Embedded host. An ESXi Embedded host is a physical server that contains an ESX
image preinstalled as firmware in the factory or burned onto an external USB key.
Procedure
1 Install ESXi Installable on the machine's hard disk.
2 Copy virtual machines from the ESXi Embedded VMFS datastore to the ESXi Installable VMFS datastore.
3 Reboot the machine and configure the boot setting to boot from the hard disk where you installed ESXi
rather than the USB disk.
4 If you can remove the ESXi Embedded USB device, remove it. If the USB device is internal, clear or
overwrite the USB partitions.
Removing or overwriting ESXi Embedded is required so that the ESXi host can be upgraded in the future.
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