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Installing ESXi, Installing ESXi Interactively, Interactively - cli
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Installing ESXi 7 You can install ESXi interactively, with a scripted installation, or with vSphere Auto Deploy. This chapter includes the following topics: n "Installing ESXi Interactively," on page 139 n "Installing, Upgrading, or Migrating Hosts Using a Script," on page 142 n "Installing ESXi Using vSphere Auto Deploy," on page 157 n "Using vSphere ESXi Image Builder CLI," on page 225 Installing ESXi Interactively Use the interactive installation option for small deployments of less than five hosts. In a typical interactive installation, you boot the ESXi installer and respond to the installer prompts to install ESXi to the local host disk. The installer reformats and partitions the target disk and installs the ESXi boot image. If you have not installed ESXi on the target disk before, all data located on the drive is overwritten, including hardware vendor partitions, operating system partitions, and associated data. NOTE To ensure that you do not lose any data, migrate the data to another machine before you install ESXi. If you are installing ESXi on a disk that contains a previous installation of ESXi or ESX, or a VMFS datastore, the installer provides you with options for upgrading. See the vSphere Upgrade documentation. Install ESXi Interactively You use the ESXi CD/DVD or a USB flash drive to install the ESXi software onto a SAS, SATA, SCSI hard drive, or USB drive. Prerequisites n You must have the ESXi installer ISO in one of the following locations: n On CD or DVD. If you do not have the installation CD/DVD, you can create one. See "Download and Burn the ESXi Installer ISO Image to a CD or DVD," on page 125 n On a USB flash drive. See "Format a USB Flash Drive to Boot the ESXi Installation or Upgrade," on page 125. NOTE You can also PXE boot the ESXi installer to launch an interactive installation or a scripted installation. See "PXE Booting the ESXi Installer," on page 129. n Verify that the server hardware clock is set to UTC. This setting is in the system BIOS. VMware, Inc. 139