Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere ESXi 6.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Installation Instructions and Important Information Guide
- Introduction
- Installing vSphere 6.0
- Download Dell EMC customized ESXi image
- Installing, Enabling and Disabling ESXi
- Overview - Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory
- Enable Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory
- Overview - 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
- Downloading patches and updates for ESXi
- Creating vCenter Server installation media
- Installing vCenter Server
- Deploying vSphere 6.0
- Configuration back up and restore procedures
- Licensing information
- Troubleshooting ESXi
- Getting help
Figure 4. Configuring vSphere with iSCSI SAN
Booting ESXi
This section describes performing the basic setup of your system based on the following assumptions:
• You have already connected a keyboard, monitor, and mouse.
• You have connected the first onboard NIC to your management network.
• The network infrastructure between the two systems is working correctly prior to working with your system and the VMware
management software.
To set up your system:
1. Turn on your system.
2. Press F11 at boot and select the internal storage device as the one-time boot device located under Hard Drives in the menu.
NOTE:
If you ordered ESXi as the primary operating system, the boot order of the system is already set to boot from
ESXi.
NOTE: If the system fails to boot in to ESXi, set SD card as first boot device in boot sequence.
NOTE: If DHCP server is not configured in the network, valid IP address is not obtained by default.
Configuring the password
You can use DCUI to change the password for the administrator account. The administrative user name for the ESXi 6 host is root.
To change the password:
1. Press F2 in the main ESXi Server host screen that is displayed after your system boots.
Deploying vSphere 6.0
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