One of the things I want to do is build ESXi on a USB flash disk.
A quick way is to build it via vmware workstation, then boot it on the physical box.
After it is on the physical box, run a configure reset from the console.
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Then configure it correctly.
During some testing today, found out ESXi 6.5 and higher does not use the fat client.
Bummer, forced to change.
Final note, snow hitting hard.