5- Rufus will start to create bootable ESXi Installer USB Flash Disk. 3- A newer version can be downloaded by Rufus to fix this issue, click on Yes. Type a volume label and then click Start. Happy days! A fresh ESXi vSphere 7 installation on my shiny Cisco UCS C240 M4 server. 1- Connect your USB flash disk to your PC, go to your download folder and then open Rufus.
I was able to log in with the root password set earlier I clicked Esc and applied the changes which restarted the management network.įinally, time to test access via the web browser, I headed over to Chrome and entered. I Set it to a static IPv4 address configuration. Once the installation was completed, I rebooted the host, you can either remove the USB or if you can't be bothered to walk to the Server like me I just hit F2 from the KVM and changed the boot priority back to the Cisco virtual device named Hypervisor.Īnd Viola! ESXi vSphere 7.0 is now installed!Ī quick reconfiguration of management interface to a static IP by pressing F2, select "Configure Management Network"
I went through the usual steps of selecting the keyboard layout, setting the root password and confirming the install to the storage device. So I selected this and hit enter and opted for a clean install. Interestingly the ESXi installer recognises the storage device as "Cypress RAID" and to be honest I only linked this to the SD card because of its storage capacity. Inside the Cisco UCS there is a 32GB Scandisk SD card which is used by the Cisco FlexFlash Controller, when I was in the BIOS changing the boot order, I noticed the device was referred to the CiscoVD Hypervisor, This is a virtual device and can be seen in the FlexFlash section under virtual drives in CIMC I hit enter to begin the install, agreed to the EULA. The Server detected the ESXi drive and boot image and I was able to select the installer. Once logged in, I launched the HTML KVM, powered on the hosts power and pressed F2 to enter the BIOS setup.įrom here I then changed the boot priority to boot from the Scandisk USB boot drive. On the back of the Cisco UCS, there are two USB drives, so I plugged in the Scandisk USB drive and went back to my laptop and browsed to the Cisco Integrated Management Controller (CIMC)
I downloaded the iso and fired up Rufus to create a bootable ESXi USB drive.
Next stop ESXi vSphere 7 USB Installation on my new UCS C240 M4 lab server. Install VMware vSphere ESXi from a USB drive Power off the node being reset by either pressing and holding the power button or using iLO. Yesterday I bought a VMUG advantage membership so that I can use the 365 day evaluation licenses.