VMware ESXi step-by-step Installation Guide with Screenshots

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• deepak deore June 23, 2010, 5:38 am

  nice article, waiting for the next part, are you going to describe vSphere Client as well ? I heard that managing vmware ESXi is difficult from command line, so we need to use vSphare client which is not free.

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• Suresh October 19, 2010, 6:44 pm

  Hi Ramesh,
  Great article! Thanks.
  I am just starting to learn abt ESXi and was wondering how you could take those screenshots without a client. I know, it may be silly question for those who are already using.
  As I understand vSphere (client) comes with it, will that provide the functionality to take screenshots?

  Thanks,
  Suresh

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• Paul November 18, 2010, 5:04 am

  Ramesh, I’ve been eagerly waiting for the next article on this topic.

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• Jules April 12, 2011, 10:59 am

  Thank you. Great instructions and very simplified.

  I understand there is a way to install using graphical mode so you can increase the block size. However, I don’t see anything on install options for GUI mode. Are you aware of this option and how to access? Many thanks!

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• Anish Sneh May 6, 2011, 5:22 am

  Thanks Ramesh , very helpful…

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• rastechnologies June 16, 2011, 12:21 am

  Hi Guide me how to install Vsphere over windows server 2003 and 2008

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• Noor July 6, 2011, 9:00 pm

  Great article for beginners..

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• Ale Khan August 28, 2011, 1:43 pm

  Dear Ramesh

  Thanks a lot for such a valuable help plz do keep continue

  BEst of luck how about the further parts?

  Regards

  Ale

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• Mahi September 12, 2011, 9:46 pm

  Ramesh, do you have any hardning best practices on ESXi4/5.x?

  Thanks
  Mahi

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• peat November 2, 2011, 6:28 am

  thiis is a good article

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• juan harris November 3, 2011, 2:28 pm

  Ramesh were is the second part of this installation ?

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• Mark November 16, 2011, 12:20 pm

  Ramesh, great article. We all are waiting for the second part and reply of these questions. Will be great help if you can guide us.

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• Salena January 5, 2012, 11:10 am

  Looking for some step by step instructions on building and configuring a ESX server from beginning to end. This is a new technology that I have been tasked with documenting the deployment and configuration of. Any links or info would be greatly appreciated. Also, great material on this site.

  I look forward to hearing from you

  Salena

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• vibhash singh April 3, 2012, 2:32 am

  thank you
  for give the good article

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• Alpha April 14, 2012, 9:45 am

  Hi
  I have a big problem. We buy a HP dl 380 G7 server Last week.We installed ESX 4.0 and 2 VMs for test on it first then we decide to upgrade it to ESX I 5.0. For doing it, I clear RAID and reconfigure it to RAID 5.after it ,I tried to install ESX I 5.0 but there is not any storage on Local and it detect my storage on remote only.Please help me to run ESX i 5.0 and build my VMs.
  Server configuration:
  6*450 SAS HDD
  2*XEON 5650 – 6 Core
  • I have changed RAID for storage to different formats but no success.
  • On install time, in storage form, show my storage with RAID 5 on remote section.

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• Kelvin clark April 21, 2012, 7:45 pm

  Thanks for the installation guide. I’m having a problem at stage 6, I cant for some reason see my 1TB Maxtor SATA drive. I have tried unformatting it, formatting it, partitioning it etc and i still cant see it. Do you have any idea why this would be?
  Thanks in advance.

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• Hasnain April 30, 2012, 3:23 am

  I’m getting error message of ‘network adapter not found’ so setup cannot continoue.
  But the network is enabled ! pls advise

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• chandru September 12, 2012, 5:07 am

  I have Hp z400 with 6 Gb RAm can is install EXi 3.0or 4.2 0r 5.0

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• Rupert Pumkin March 5, 2013, 11:30 am

  Anyone can help me install ESXI5. I have a windows machine do I install the esxi on a machine with no OS or? I have 2 Dell towers that meet the requirements to install ESXI5

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• Dinesh Rao April 4, 2013, 2:53 am

  Hi. Sir/ Madam, Looking for some step by step instructions on building and configuring a ESX server from beginning to end. This is a new technology that I have been tasked with documenting the deployment and configuration of. Any links or info would be greatly appreciated. Also, great material on this site. I look forward to hearing from you.

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• purusothaman May 16, 2013, 3:31 am

  hi Rupert,

  check in http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php for esxi version supported for your servers.

  download the customized image from Dell website and install on your server.

  Installation is very easy and straight forward. if you are using dhcp in your network. by default esxi will pick up ip from dhcp and you will need to change it to static..

  after installation complete.. you can enable esxi console shell from ALT+f2 Troubleshooting option and access.

  but ideally you will need a vsphere client / Vcenter server to access this Esxi server

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• Omkar June 6, 2013, 11:01 am

  do you know if we can pre-load ESXi on an USB drive in the B200 M3?

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• vijay September 16, 2013, 2:02 pm

  thanks for showing how to install ESX server.And we need how to manage in VC installation and configuration of VSWITCH and snapshot,cluster,VMotion and NTP

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• deepak September 28, 2013, 11:48 pm

  ya.. Im new to VMware now i am so happy because i learnt one new concept that VMware installation..

  Thank you

  My dear friend

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• srinivas December 6, 2013, 12:08 am

  Hi Team

  I have some queries related to the esxi installation.
  1)how to we install from the san disk or how to we install esxi from san storage.
  2)how to we do bare metal installation remotely what are the possible ways to install esx/esxi remotely.

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• Gautam March 12, 2014, 12:28 am

  Hi,

  I am new to Vmware and the Document will me in the installations.

  Regards,
  Gautam

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• MOhammad Irfan March 13, 2014, 12:11 am

  Grat Article..!!

  Thank u soo much

  Now i got the idea about ESXi Installation.

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• Dinesh Murugan April 9, 2014, 4:20 pm

  Hi guys,
  You just download ESXi operating system and it’s completely free . You just installing clears workstation and upgrading with Esxi OS. Finally installation completed with one ip address. In this installation you need to give root password. Then you minimize this vmware workstation running with ESXi , you do not power off the vmware workstation. And you open vmware vsphere and you give the username , root password , and IP address. Then you might seeing the cloud computing there……

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• manoj July 7, 2014, 8:02 am

  hi,
  if incase i need to install on a RAID volume, were should i give the driver for the virtual drive?

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• Mohammed Shafique December 4, 2014, 9:05 am

  Hi Ramesh, Great article

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• Pramod Pandey December 5, 2014, 3:51 am

  its good for biginner i m also learning vmware ESXI5.5 and Vaspare client i have a confusion can we use Vspere client wethout microsoft windows support if s then how ?
  please help us thanks.

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• Ravi January 22, 2015, 10:35 am

  H , Ramesh,

  Please come again with Next

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• Anand February 6, 2015, 6:06 am

  Please let us know next details.

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• sara November 22, 2015, 1:38 am

  Hi Ramesh
  Thank you. It’s very good article.
  Best Regards

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• mohammed February 15, 2016, 11:40 pm

  thanks a lot

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• suraksha March 9, 2016, 12:02 am

  thanks a lot sir, please let me know the next instruction after installing esxi how to configure.

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• Fenel Hyacinthe March 24, 2016, 3:35 am

  Good article as i am a beginner to this VM world, i wish those article would lead to the path of an expert. One thing i would suggest to the website designer is to put a navigation link between article that are relate, this would allow us to jump in to the next article quite easely.

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• HiThere April 21, 2016, 7:07 am

  Hi there,

  I have installed ESXi three times now. Everytime the root password is not being accepted after installation. My keyboard is US-INT, and I have set it correctly in the setting as well. All three times I have used a ridiculously easy password, why isn’t it being accepted? The passwords, password and 1234567 are not accepted after installation.

  It can’t be the ctrl+shift combo because when I type the pw in the username field, it shows correctly. I have no idea really..

  Greets

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• Mahesh Kumar May 15, 2016, 10:28 pm

  Its really helpful for installation the ESXI in VMware.

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• Hemkant Suresh Jagtap May 23, 2016, 7:11 am

  Excellent Chetan Sir…
  It’s really helpful for everyone,who have interest in VMWare.

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• Atppedro December 6, 2016, 5:01 am

  Excelente!! Thanks

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