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VMware vSphere® 5 Administration: Instant Reference
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VMware vSphere® 5 Administration: Instant Reference

by Christopher Kusek, Van V. Van Noy, Andy Daniel
December 2011
Beginner
396 pages
7h 57m
English
Sybex
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Chapter 2

Installing and Configuring ESXi

IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

  • PREPARE FOR INSTALLATION
  • INSTALL ESXI
    • Install ESXi Manually
    • Automate ESXi Installation
  • CONFIGURE POST-INSTALL OPTIONS
    • Configure ESXi from the Console
    • Install the vSphere Client
    • Configure ESXi from within the vSphere Client

They say that when you build a house, one of the most important steps in that process is building the foundation, since everything will depend on its integrity. When deploying a virtual infrastructure, the underlying installation and its configuration are equally important. In this chapter, we are going to cover the most common approaches to deploying ESXi.

Prepare for Installation

With the release of vSphere 4, VMware signaled that the 32-bit ...

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