We are looking at upgrading our production ESXi 4.1 hosts with a clean install of ESXi 5.1. These hosts have no local storage. Whilst testing an installation in our lab on a host that does have local storage, I noticed that the MEM bundle is copied to the local datastore as part of the installation process using vCLI (setup.pl). I imagine the installation of MEM will fail on our production hosts due to no datastores available. Will this be the case and if so is there any way to get around this? I am unable to test as all of our lab servers have local storage.
Thanks