Run ESX4 from USB

Hello-

We have a customer who insists on execution of ESX4 from a USB key that he bought from HP.  Their system is HP DL 385 G6, with card RAID P400 with 512 MB of RAM and a 147 GB 10K SAS drive to each server.  Don't ask me why they chose this configuration, they ordered hardware from another vendor.  I was able to install ESX on the USB drive that is connected to the internal USB port on the motherboard.

The only way I could install ESX4 was to use the physical hard disk to the file/tmp/log and swap.  I'm really trying to discourage the customer run this in its enterprise environment (health care).

Before someone can tell me if running ESX4, not ESX4i, since a key USB is a VMware support?  What will happen when / if the hard disk that holds him fails to file/tmp/log and swap?  He won't buy a second hard drive to put these files on a mirror RAID-1 protected, so I feel like this is a very bad hardware design.  The customer insists it's better because there are no moving parts on the flash drive, but I don't think he realizes that flash drives have a high rate of failure more than hard drives and running its Enterprise server on a flashdrive of $10.

I went through the documentation but can't find information about ESX 4i connecting a flash drive.  If anyone has links to the documentation indicating that linking it ESX4 in a Flash is not recommended or supported, I would appreciate it!  Thank you.

Must not be running ESX USB flash, it is not designed to do this, ESXi should be.

ESXi is high level functionality like VMotion ESX, etc. HA absloutely. The only thing lacking is the service console.

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