Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Installation Instructions and Important Information Guide
- Introduction
- Installing vSphere 6.5.x
- Download Dell EMC customized ESXi image
- Installing, enabling and disabling ESXi
- Overview of Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory
- Enabling Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory
- Overview of Dell Fault Resilient Memory
- Enabling Dell Fault Resilient Memory
- Installing ESXi on flash media
- Installing ESXi on the hard drive
- Installing ESXi on the BOSS-S1 device
- Enabling or disabling internal SD card
- Configuring one-time boot to ESXi
- Configuring boot sequence to ESXi
- VMware ESXi Secure boot support for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers
- Downloading patches and updates for ESXi
- Creating vCenter Server installation media
- Installing vCenter Server
- Deploying vSphere 6.5.x
- Configuration back up and restore procedures
- Licensing information
- Troubleshooting ESXi
- Getting help

Table 4. Additional documentation resources for your server (continued)
Task Document Location
For information about installing
and using Dell SupportAssist,
see the Dell EMC SupportAssist
Enterprise User's Guide.
www.dell.com/serviceabilitytools
For understanding the features
of Dell EMC Lifecycle Controller
(LC), see the Lifecycle
Controller User's Guide.
www.dell.com/idracmanuals
For information about
partner programs enterprise
systems management,
see the OpenManage
Connections Enterprise Systems
Management documents.
www.dell.com/esmmanuals
For information about
viewing inventory, performing
configuration, and monitoring
tasks, remotely turning on
or off servers, and enabling
alerts for events on servers
and components using the
Dell EMC Chassis Management
Controller (CMC), see the
Chassis Management Controller
User's Guide .
www.dell.com/esmmanuals
Working with the Dell EMC
PowerEdge RAID controllers
For information about
understanding the features of
the Dell EMC PowerEdge
RAID controllers (PERC) and
deploying the PERC cards,
see the Storage controller
documentation.
Dell.com/storagecontrollermanuals
Understanding event and
error messages
For information about checking
the event and error messages
generated by the system
firmware and agents that
monitor server components,
see the Dell EMC Event and
Error Message Reference Guide
for 14th Generation Dell EMC
PowerEdge Servers .
Dell.com/openmanagemanuals
Troubleshooting your system For information about identifying
and troubleshooting the
PowerEdge server issues,
see the PowerEdge Servers
Troubleshooting Guide.
www.dell.com/poweredgemanuals
Configuring Dell PowerEdge
VRTX shared storage
for VMware vSphere
environment
For information on configuring
Dell PowerEdge VRTX shared
storage for VMware vSphere
environment, see Dell EMC
White papers.
Configuring Dell PowerEdge VRTX shared storage for
VMware vSphere Environment
30 Getting help