This section provides steps to create the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator deployment media on a Mac OS machine.

Prerequisites

Ensure that you have already downloaded the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator IMG media. For more information, see Downloading the VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator 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 the 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 Cloud Orchestrator 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=./ESXi-ec-0.1.0-22815473-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 Cloud Orchestrator boot media is created on your Windows machine, which can be used to deploy your host. For more information, see Booting Your Edge Server.