VMware ESXi 6.7 installation will continue for a couple of minutes.
Press F11key on your keyboard to confirm the install of ESXi 6.7 Update 2 hypervisor. Press Enterkey on your keyboard to continue.
Please note the password must be at least 7 characters long and must not contain common sequences. Select a keyboard layout as shown above and press Enterkey on your keyboard to continue. In my case I will be selecting the local disk to install ESXi hypervisor with pressing Enter key on the keyboard to continue. If you have SAN devices configured and connected in a fabric those will be shown as remote devices. If you encounter any issues double check the VMware hardware compatibility matrix or assist the server vendor support.Īvailable local or remote storage devices will be shown to select. Installation will scan the server hardware for available devices and this would take a few minutes.
Press F11 Key on your keyboard to accept the VMware End User License Agreement (EULA) and continue. Press Enterkey on your keyboard to continue the installation. Once the ESXi installer is loaded, you will get the welcome message as shown above. Wait for another few minutes for the installer files to be loaded.
Now wait for the installer to extract installation files. Leave the default selection “ ESXi-6.7.0-20190402001-standard Installer“ and press Enterkey on your keyboard to start the installer or wait 10 seconds to boot automatically. Two boot options are, boot from the ESXi installer “ ESXi-6.7.0-20190402001-standard Installer“ or “ Boot from local disk“. When you power on the server, the server will boot using ESXi installer as shown above. Else burn the ISO image onto a CD/DVD and make sure to configure the server to boot from CD/DVD placing the CD/DVD into the drive. If you are using HP, DELL or Cisco UCS Blade servers, mount the ISO image into the virtual media with connecting to the ILO, iDRAC or UCSM KVM Console. The steps to install VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 are same as previous versions of ESXi. Then downloadthe ESXi ISO image from the VMware official website. In this article you will find steps to install VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7. Before you begin the install, make sure that the physical server meets the minimum hardware requirements supported by ESXi 6.7 Update 2. The version 6.7 Update 2 with build number 13006603 is the newest version available at the moment. VMware vSphere version 6.7 lately released by VMware includes many more improvements like Configuration Maximums, Bug Fixes, ESXi Quick Boot, Persistent Memory(PMem) for the best performance and stability of the ESXi hypervisor. It is used by most companies to manage their virtualization infrastructures. VMware vSphere ESXi is one of the most popular hypervisor.