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ESXi 7.0 requires a boot disk of at least 8 GB for USB or SD devices, and 32 GB for other device types such as HDD, SSD, or NVMe.and 32 GB for other device types such as HDD, SSD, or NVMe. A boot device must not be shared between ESXi hosts.
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When booting from a local disk, SAN or iSCSI LUN, a 32 GB disk is required to allow for the creation of system storage volumes, which include a boot partition, boot banks, and a VMFS-L based ESX-OSData volume32 GB disk is required to allow for the creation of system storage volumes, which include a boot partition, boot banks, and a VMFS-L based ESX-OSData volume. The ESX-OSData volume takes on the role of the legacy /scratch partition, locker partition for VMware Tools, and core dump destination.
— по-моему, из процитированного выше довольно однозначно следует, что для размещения всех разделов esxi 7.0 нужен persistent sroage
по крайней мере, locker partition должна быть перенесена на нормальный storage после инсталляции, https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/83376
обсудилось это уже десяток раз и во vmug, и на редите, и где угодно еще







