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  1. Also, another advice.. please make sure to backup your USB disk before you mess around the partitions with something like "USB Image Tool". will save the pain of reinstalling ESXI on your USB disk again.. and again..it took me couple of night to get the setup up and running with multiple restores from the USB Image Tool
  2. HI, ESXI DOES allow to create a Datastore on USB but not from the Windows Vsphere Client. please use ESXI command line tools. My HP Gen 8 booting ESXi 6 and then Xpenology from a single 32 GB USB Here is how I managed to create USB based data store 1. using "partedutil" to create a VMFS partition at the end of the used partitions in the USB after booting into ESXI server installed on the USB - http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/micros ... Id=1036609 - advice, please use the set option for all your partitions - NOT just for the new ones, 2. using "vmkfstools -C vmfs5 -b..." to create a data store on the new VMFS partition of required size I have got 2 data stores , one to store the Expenology boot disk and one to store RDM mapping to my 3 TB drives. I have not issues so far with the setup, and the Xpenology network share can saturate my 100 MBits/s LAN - wish I had a Gigabit one to test. I also wish I had all the commands and the output while getting this setup, but hope this rough guide helps
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