Get full access to The Complete VMware vSphere Guide and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

Interactive installation

Interactive installation is straightforward, because the procedure makes use of a comfortable and intuitive interface that guides the user during the entire process. The installer is booted from a CD/ DVD, from a bootable USB device, or by PXE booting the installer from a location on the network. The interactive installation method best applies to small environments where the number of ESXi hosts to install is limited. You can install ESXi in a few minutes directly launching the installer from the installation media, and no scripts or dedicated network configurations are required to complete the procedure. If you need to install a few ESXi hosts, this is definitively the fastest and most straightforward option.

Get The Complete VMware vSphere Guide now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now