Trying to upgrade my home lab to 5.5 to test out some of the new features before getting it rolling at work and I've run into a problem with installing it.
I have a pair of hosts running 5.1 installed to a USB key with an internal SSD for use as a host cache disk (prob to be swapped to vCache if i can ever get 5.5 to install).
5.1 and 5.0 before it recognised the USB key and installed to it with no problems, 5.5 however does not see the USB key at all. In fact as far as I can tell half way through the boot (at the yellow top half point) it seems to turn the USB subsystem off entirely as the usb keyboard plugged in turns off at this point. It does however continue booting off the USB cdrom drive
My best guess is that the UEFI boot is keeping the usb controllers in legacy mode and presenting them to the boot evironment, then ESXi starts the drivers for the USB controllers attempts to take them over from the UEFI bios and shuts them down/fails to load/who knows.
Wondering if anyone else has seen this and has a workaround?
My systems are:
ASUS P8H61-I R2.0 motherboard
i3-3220 cpu
USB key plugged into usb2 ports NOT the usb3 ports
