This section provides steps to create the Edge Compute Stack deployment media on a Mac OS machine.

Prerequisites

Ensure to download the VMware Edge Compute Stack IMG media. For more information, see Downloading the Media.

Procedure

  1. Launch a terminal window.
  2. Unplug the USB drive and run the following command:

    diskutil list

  3. Plug in the USB drive and run the same command. You can identify the USB disk as the difference in output. In examples used in this section, it is disk2. This name can also be located with a (external, physical) label after the disk name.

    diskutil list

  4. If the disk has any partitions recognized by Mac OS, they might be auto-mounted. Un-mount the disk using the following command:

    diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2

  5. Write the VMware Edge Compute Stack image to the USB drive using the following command. Replace the name of the downloaded image file and use the correct disks. The disk might take some time to complete.

    rdisk2 is used instead of disk2 as this expedites the process by using the raw disk and skips some of the OS IO stack.

    sudo dd if=./ecs-3.5.0-20240617-24036327-boot2live-usb.img of=/dev/rdisk2 conv=fsync bs=16777216

  6. You can now safely eject your USB drive from your machine.

Results

The VMware Edge Compute Stack boot media is created on your Windows machine, which can be used to deploy your host. For more information, see Booting Your Edge Server.