Find the system designated name for the USB key – You will know which disk it is by looking at the sizes of all of the volumes and the volume name. In Terminal, type in ‘diskutil list’ (without quotes) and hit enter to see all of the volumes mounted on your system. Next, open Terminal, located in the /Applications/Utilities folder. Although you can do this through Terminal and keep your command line ego intact (man diskutil to find out more), the quickest way is to use Disk Utility:
Get your USB key – as the source files are so small a 512MB or 1GB key is sufficient.įormat the USB key with a Master Boot record partition map and a FAT32 file system. iso files and the whole image is about 400MB, so is quick to download. Once you have done this you can proceed to download the software – there are a few different options here, but make sure you download the ESXi software which is usually labelled ‘VMWare vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)’, rather than vCenter, vCenter appliance and so on. You need a VMWare account in order to download the software, but it’s totally free and only takes a few minutes. You can get this from the VMWare website the UK portal is at. The first step is to download the ESXi software and copy it to the USB key.
Anyway, once I had read the documentation there were still a few things not covered, so I thought I would document the steps I took to get the platform installed: Download ESXi… I had a couple of issues doing this, mostly my fault as, of course, I jumped straight in and didn’t read any of the documentations. Posted on 19th April 2018 by James | Tags: esxi, how to, servers, vmwareĪ couple of days ago I wanted to test VMware ESXi 5.5 on a Mac Pro 4,1 (quad-core XEON 2.66GHz / 8GB RAM).
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