Where to install ESXi?
Before installing ESXi, you need to decide where to store the ESXi files. A local disk, SD card, SAN (LUN), FC, or USB device are all possible destinations you can use for ESXi but what solution is the best and what you should use is very hard to say. The choice to make depends on your infrastructure design, network configuration, and the installed devices in your target machine.
You can use a SAN (LUN) to install your ESXi but if the server on which you are going to install ESXi doesn't have iSCSI hardware initiators, it excludes the SAN option as a booting device. An extra configuration is anyhow required to set up LUNs and zoning (zoning configuration can be avoided if is used the iSCSI boot from SAN mode). Anyhow, ...
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