vSphere Installation and Setup - Documentation - VMware
vSphere Installation and Setup - Documentation - VMware
vSphere Installation and Setup - Documentation - VMware
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<strong>vSphere</strong> <strong>Installation</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Setup</strong><br />
n DHCP server configured for PXE booting. See “Sample DHCP Configuration,” on page 20.<br />
n PXELINUX<br />
n Server with a hardware configuration that is supported with ESXi 5.1. See the Hardware Compatibility<br />
Guide at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php.<br />
n Network security policies to allow TFTP traffic (UDP port 69)<br />
n (Optional) <strong>Installation</strong> script, the kickstart file. See “About <strong>Installation</strong> <strong>and</strong> Upgrade Scripts,” on<br />
page 50.<br />
n Network adapter with PXE support on the target ESXi host<br />
n IPv4 networking. IPv6 is not supported for PXE booting.<br />
Use a native VLAN in most cases. If you want to specify the VLAN ID to be used with PXE booting, check that<br />
your NIC supports VLAN ID specification.<br />
Procedure<br />
1 Create the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory on your TFTP server.<br />
2 On the Linux machine, install PXELINUX.<br />
PXELINUX is included in the SYSLINUX package. Extract the files, locate the pxelinux.0 file <strong>and</strong> copy it<br />
to the /tftpboot directory on your TFTP server.<br />
3 Configure the DHCP server to send the following information to each client host:<br />
n The name or IP address of your TFTP server.<br />
n The name of your initial boot file. This is pxelinux.0.<br />
4 Copy the contents of the ESXi installer image to the /var/lib/tftpboot directory on the TFTP server.<br />
5 (Optional) For a scripted installation, in the boot.cfg file, add the kernelopt option on the line following<br />
the kernel comm<strong>and</strong>, to specify the location of the installation script.<br />
Use the following code as a model, where XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the IP address of the server where the<br />
installation script resides, <strong>and</strong> esxi_ksFiles is the directory containing the ks.cfg file.<br />
kernelopt=ks=http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/esxi_ksFiles/ks.cfg<br />
6 Create a PXE configuration file.<br />
This file defines how the host boots when no operating system is present. The PXE configuration file<br />
references the boot files. Use the following code as a model, where XXXXXX is the build number of the ESXi<br />
installer image.<br />
DEFAULT menu.c32<br />
MENU TITLE ESXi-5.x.x-XXXXXX-full Boot Menu<br />
NOHALT 1<br />
PROMPT 0<br />
TIMEOUT 80<br />
LABEL install<br />
KERNEL mboot.c32<br />
APPEND -c location of boot.cfg<br />
MENU LABEL ESXi-5.x.x-XXXXXX-full ^Installer<br />
LABEL hddboot<br />
LOCALBOOT 0x80<br />
MENU LABEL ^Boot from local disk<br />
7 Name the file with the MAC address of the target host machine: 01-mac_address_of_target_ESXi_host.<br />
For example, 01-23-45-67-89-0a-bc.<br />
22 <strong>VMware</strong>, Inc.
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