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CREATE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT INSTALL
CREATE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT PC
CREATE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT ISO
CREATE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT WINDOWS

CREATE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT PC

Rename the New Volume Label to whatever you wish to see when you insert the flash drive into a PC.

CREATE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT ISO

Click the icon next to FreeDOS and select your ISO image.

Select MBR partition Scheme for BIOS or UEFI.

Under Device, select the flash drive you wish to format and use.

Insert your blank (or soon to be formatted) flash drive into your PC.

If your boot drive doesn’t work, try a different flash drive For some reason, I will run into some cheap-o thumb drives that do not boot anything.

Use a somewhat quality USB Flash Drive (1GB or larger).

iSO image you want to be bootable (whether its WIndows, ESXi, or Linux). There are three things you will need to do this: The tool of choice for any bootable USB is my friend Rufus. But this guide might be helpful when installing vSphere on a standalone server. William Lam’s blog has real good information about Kickstart scripts found here.Getting ESXi installed on a server today is more often done through the servers BMC (iLO, iDRAC, CMC, etc). See my post “Boot from USB in VMware Workstation” found here.

And the USB stick creation in ready.Īn easy way to test the ESXi 5 USB stick and the scripted installation is using VMware Workstation.

CREATE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT WINDOWS

Vim-cmd hostsvc/datastore/rename datastore1 "$(hostname -s)-local-storage-1"Įsxcli system hostname set -fqdn=Įsxcli network ip dns search add -domain=beerens.localĮsxcli network ip dns server add -server=192.168.250.6Įsxcli network ip dns server add -server=192.168.250.1įor editing and creating the boot.cfg and ks.cfg file in Windows I use Notepad++ so NO hidden carriage returns are in the files. Here is an example: #Sample kickstart scripted installation The BOOT.CFG should look like this: bootstate=0

Step 4Įdit the BOOT.CFG file in the root of the USB stick and add ks=usb between /b.b00 and - /useropts.gz modules

CREATE VMWARE ESXI USB BOOT INSTALL

You can stop here if you you want to install ESXi with manual installation steps. Wait till the USB creation process is finished. Step 3įollow the steps 1,2,4 and click 5 to create the USB stick. List disk (list the disk in your system including the USB)ĭownload the Windows LinuxLive USB creator utility here. Open the command prompt and enter the following commands: diskpart (make sure you run diskpart as administrator)

The 5 steps are: Step 1īe sure removing all partitions and format a FAT32 partition on the USB stick by using the following command: Here is a simple procedure to make a bootable VMware ESXi 5 or ESXi 6 USB stick in Windows and perform a scripted unattended VMware ESXi installation.