![]() There are many ways to work around this problem but I was looking for one that was “relatively easy” and worked for me. The result is that if you restore the image with the USB Image Tool and attempt to boot it you get: BANK5: invalid configuration. It would appear that programs such as USB Image Tool probably work fine, but for some reason because it is running in Windows it appears that Windows does something to the partition numbering on the flash disk.Īn ESXi USB flash disk’s partitions look like this in Windows disk management tool: Just click on “Backup” and save to a file. This means they do not show up in the USB Imaging Tool or some other similar applications. This means they appear to the O/S as a USB hard drive rather than a flash disk. Note: Apparently a number of USB flash disk manufacturers are changing their disks to suit Windows ReadyBoost. Simply plug the ESXi key into your Windows PC run the tool and you see: I use the “USB Imaging Tool” by Alexander Beug. ![]() ![]() So the solution, as much as it is a little painful, is to use Linux to do the restore. The problem would seem to be that the imaging tools are fine, its just that when you do this on a Windows platform and probably more specifically a Windows 7 or 10, then Windows messes around with the partition numbering or something. When I boot up ESX I get an error: BANK5: invalid configuration. The problem is that using a USB imaging tool doesn’t seem to work. I have a couple of ESXi servers at home that I boot from USB keys – see the post Running ESXi 5.1 from a USB key.
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