Instead of all that, how about just extracting the ESXi ISO file to a folder, updating two files and booting the server to have ESXi installed over the network? Much quicker and simpler! When? To install ESXi, the administrator either has to create a USB device (stick, hard disk, etc) from the image or burn the image onto a CD-ROM or finally use some other third party method (HP iLO, Dell iDRAC, IBM RSA) to boot the ESXi installer in order to install ESXi. Learn more about ESXi hereĮSXi is shipped by VMware in the form of an ISO disk image file. ESXi: A bare-metal hypervisor that is capable of running Virtual Machines.WDS: Windows Deployment Services is a server technology from Microsoft for network-based installation of Windows operating systems - although we are going to leverage our WDS server for ESXi. UEFI: Unified Extensible Firmware Interface: Replaces the legacy Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware interface originally present in all IBM PC-compatible PCs/Servers.
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