Create ESXi Installer USB Flash drive, In this post, I will explain the way to produce a bootable ESXi Installer USB Flash drive. Some servers while not CD/DVD drive or remote KVM you would possibly need to use associate degree USB Flash Drive to put in ESXi to the hardware.
Create Bootable USB Media ESXi
How to Download Rufus click here
How to Download an ESXi image please visit VMware
1- Connect your USB flash disk to your PC, go to your download folder and then open Rufus.
2- Select USB flash drive under Device
Click the Browse button and then select VMware ESXi ISO file
Under Partition, scheme choose MBR and for target system select BIOS or UEFI
Type a volume label and then click Start.
3- A newer version can be downloaded by Rufus to fix this issue, click on Yes.
4- USB Erase data warning click ok.
5- Rufus will start to create bootable ESXi Installer USB Flash Disk. This will take a few minutes to complete the process.
How to Create ESXi 6.7 Installation USB media
How to download Universal USB Installer click here
1- Double click to run the universal USB Installer.
2- Click I Accept button to Accept the license agreement.
3- Select try unlisted Linux ISO option and then click the browse button to select the ISO file of ESXi 6.7 (VMware-ESXi Installer-6.7.0.iso file), select your USB flash drive, and click on create button to start the process.
4- All data will be deleted warning, click yes.
5- Its star extracting the VMware-ESXi-6.7.0.iso file before copying to the USB.
6- Universal USB installer copied successfully, click close.
Now when you’ll change the boot order in the BIOS of your server into the USB boot option.
For more details how to create bootable flash drive click here
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