Setup guide

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Best Practices
To confirm the correct boot disk, press F1 to display details about the disk. After viewing the disk details, press
Enter to close the pop-up.
Selecting Option to Migrate and Preserving the VMFS Datastore
When an existing ESX/ESXi 4.x installation is detected, the ESXi Installer will prompt to both migrate (upgrade)
the host and preserve the existing VMFS datastore, or to do a fresh install (with options to preserve or overwrite
the VMFS datastore). Select the Migrate ESX, preserve VMFS datastore option.