This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast Pete and John welcome the Tech Breakfast crew (Aaron Buley, Tyler Gates, and Russ Cantwell) to look back on the 1st 200 episodes and what's in store for the next 200.  Read more

This week on the Virtually Speaking Podcast we welcome Jatin Purohit to give us an ESXi System Storage overview and discuss the changes between versions. Enjoy!
Links Mentioned
ESXi System Storage Changes
ESXi System Storage While Upgrading
ESXi System Storage FAQs
ESXi 7 Storage Requirements
ESXi 7 System Storage warnings – VMware KB Article 85615
VMFS-L locker partition corruption
Bootbank cannot be found at path ‘/bootbank’ errors being seen after upgrading to ESXi 7.0 U2
Creating a persistent scratch location for ESXi 7.x/6.x/5.x/4.x
Configure ESXi Dump Collector with ESXCLI
Removal of SD card/USB as a standalone boot device option (KB Article 85685)
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2021/09/esxi-7-boot-media-consideration-vmware-technical-guidance.html
https://thenicholson.com/is-my-sd-card-is-resilient-enough-for-production-esxi-usage/
The Virtually Speaking Podcast 
The Virtually Speaking Podcast is a technical podcast dedicated to discussing VMware topics related to storage and availability. In each episode, Pete Flecha and John Nicholson bring in various subject matter experts from VMware and within the industry to discuss their respective areas of expertise. If you’re new to the Virtually Speaking Podcast check out all episodes on vSpeakingPodcast.com and follow on Twitter @VirtSpeaking.
 

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