Install Guide

Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................... 5
vSphere 7.0 architecture......................................................................................................................................................5
Overview of ESXi architecture............................................................................................................................................ 6
Chapter 2: Installing vSphere 7.0..................................................................................................... 8
Downloading Dell EMC customized ESXi images..............................................................................................................8
Download Dell EMC customized ESXi image and Dell EMC Addon from Dell EMC support site......................... 8
Downloading Dell EMC customized ESXi image from VMware site......................................................................... 9
Important information for the Dell EMC-customized ESXi image.............................................................................9
Installing, enabling and disabling ESXi................................................................................................................................. 9
Overview of Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory ...................................................................................................... 10
Enabling Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory..............................................................................................................10
Overview of Dell Fault Resilient Memory.................................................................................................................... 10
Enabling Dell Fault Resilient Memory............................................................................................................................11
Dell EMC NVDIMM-N persistent memory...................................................................................................................11
Intel Data Center Persistent Memory Module............................................................................................................12
4K Native hard drive support with ESXi Hosts.......................................................................................................... 12
Trusted Platform Module.............................................................................................................................................. 12
Quick Boot.......................................................................................................................................................................12
HTTP/HTTPS boot........................................................................................................................................................13
vSphere Life Cycle Manager.........................................................................................................................................13
Dell EMC add-on package.............................................................................................................................................13
Surprise removal of NVMe device............................................................................................................................... 13
Installing ESXi on flash media........................................................................................................................................13
Installing ESXi on the hard drive...................................................................................................................................14
Installing ESXi on the BOSS-S1 device........................................................................................................................14
Enabling or disabling flash storage device...................................................................................................................15
Configuring one-time boot to ESXi..............................................................................................................................15
Configuring boot sequence to ESXi.............................................................................................................................15
VMware ESXi Secure boot support for Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers....................................................................... 16
Downloading patches and updates for ESXi.....................................................................................................................17
Creating vCenter Server installation media...................................................................................................................... 18
Installing vCenter Server.....................................................................................................................................................18
Chapter 3: Deploying vSphere 7.0................................................................................................... 19
vSphere configuration using Dell EMC Fibre Channel SAN...........................................................................................20
vSphere configuration using iSCSI SAN...........................................................................................................................20
Booting ESXi......................................................................................................................................................................... 21
Configuring the password................................................................................................................................................... 21
Configuring Lockdown mode............................................................................................................................................. 22
Managing management network services....................................................................................................................... 22
Chapter 4: Back up and restore configuration..................................................................................23
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