VMWare ESXi not installing on SD card Poweredge R720

Question

I have to install VMWare ESXi on a R720 SD card with no luck so far. The SD card was delivered with the server(iDRAC 8GB). When i boot from the VMWare ESXi USB drive i am able to install it on USB devices(tried many times and it worked). But when it comes the time to scan for available devices i cannot locate the SD card. I can see only the USB drive used to boot and the RAID drive that we have on the system. I tried also disabling the vflash card with no luck. On other Dell servers i tried to setup, the SD card was visible on the available devices list. I also tried with other SD cards. Please advice cause i think it might be somethiing i am missing here.

DELL-Shine K · Answer

iDRAC vFlash SD card is not for installing ESXi OS. For installing ESXi OS on SD card you need to use "Internal Dual SD Module". For more details refer below link

http://www.dell.com/support/manuals/us/en/19/poweredge-r720/720720XDOM-v3/Internal-Dual-SD-Module?guid=GUID-A2177CDA-B7B0-47A5-9EE2-05CF58D9F287&lang=en-us

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