- #HOW TO INSTALL VMWARE ESXI 6.7 VIA USB HOW TO#
- #HOW TO INSTALL VMWARE ESXI 6.7 VIA USB DRIVERS#
- #HOW TO INSTALL VMWARE ESXI 6.7 VIA USB UPDATE#
I’ll be writing another article soon on how to install ESXi onto a Dell PowerEdge server soon. You can now boot your server from the flash drive to begin the install process. That’s about it! Rufus will now create bootable flash media for the ESXi installer.
#HOW TO INSTALL VMWARE ESXI 6.7 VIA USB UPDATE#
If you get the message, go ahead and click Yes to update to the newest version of the menu file. You may get a message that the ISO image is using an obsolete version of menu.c32 and that the boot menus may not display properly. At the bottom, it’ll say Ready and you can click on the Start button to begin the process. Click on the small disc icon to the right of the dropdown and select the ESXi ISO image you downloaded. Next, click on the dropdown next to Create a bootable disk using and choose ISO image. Change that to something short without spaces or special characters. Leave everything else with the default settings except the volume label. In my case, I used a small 1 GB flash drive as that was enough for the ESXi installer. Register/Login to Vmware and obtain ESXi 6.
How: I am using Rufus, due to it is really easy to use, of course, there are a lot more similar tools. You can just delete it after you are done using it.Īt the top, click on Device and choose your USB drive. Create a bootable USB drive to be able to install ESXi in a server/host without the need for a CD/DVD drive. Note that the USB key must be not bigger than 2 GB and formatted with FAT16 (on Windows you have to use the FAT option during the format).
#HOW TO INSTALL VMWARE ESXI 6.7 VIA USB DRIVERS#
What I like about Rufus is that it’s a standalone program that doesn’t require any kind of installation. Or you can try to fix the active bank, by adding the right drivers using a USB key as described in KB 1036340 (Cannot mount a USB key or disk device media to an ESX/ESXi host) that works fine also with ESXi 5.1. When you have the ISO image downloaded, go ahead and run Rufus. That link is for version 6.5, so if a newer version is out, make sure to download that instead. Once you have downloaded Rufus, go ahead and download the VMware ESXi installer. However, I found Rufus to be the fastest out of all the programs. If you already have a program like Windows USB/DVD Download Tool or RMprep, feel free to use those. Rufus basically lets you take ISO image files and create bootable flash media. In this article, I’ll show you how to create a bootable ESXi installer using a USB flash drive and a free software program called Rufus. The last way, and the easiest in my opinion, is to simply use a USB flash drive. There are several ways you can go about installing ESXi onto your server: remotely using iDRAC if you have that setup on a Dell server, using the SD card slot or via the CD/DVD ROM drive.
I recently purchased a refurbished Dell PowerEdge server for my home lab and decided to go ahead and install VMware ESXi (vSphere Hypervisor) so that I could play around with different virtual machines.
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