Network Configuration for Management Interface Please make sure to remove your installation media after it finishes, it will ask you to do so anyway before rebooting the system. What is important is that when it asks you Select a Disk to install or upgrade please make sure to choose the internal USB drive or whatever else you want to put the hypervisor on.Īfter that, it will ask you about your preferred 'Keyboard Layout' configuration and then you will be presented with a dialog to set your root password which will be used mainly to enter the management interface, that's all. Well, nothing too fancy here when you get into the installation screen just follow the dialogs and accept the terms and conditions. There you are, now ESXi is supposedly loading the installer.

From the boot options appearing on your screen select 'Disk Connected to front USB'.

On the 'Boot Manager Main Menu' select 'UEFI Boot Menu'.

Wait for the system to boot then press 'F11' to enter the 'UEFI Boot Manager'.

Insert the installation flash drive into the front USB port then power on your R720 server.

I will bring a spare USB flash to be permanently attached to the internal USB port where I will install the hypervisor to it after booting to the installation media that we just prepared.

This way we will avoid wasting a whole hard drive to contain solely the hypervisor itself. If you open the top cover you will find a USB port inside the case near the power supply housing on the motherboard where you can insert a flash drive. Now, click the 'Start' button and wait for that bar to be fully green in 'READY' state as shown in the picture above, then remove the installation media when finished.īoot Installation Media on Dell R720 Serverįirst of all, I prefer installing the VMware hypervisor into the internal USB flash port not to be confused with the installation media itself. Choose 'BIOS or UEFI' as your target system.Select your installation media under 'Device' where in my case it was a 8GB USB flash memory.Insert the flash device into your machine.

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