VMware Vsphere ESXi 7.0 U3 Installation

Background/Environment

Model: Dell PowerEdge R740

OS: VMware ESXi 7.0 U3 20036589

CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6138 CPU @2.00GHz *2

Ram:DDR4 2133MT/s

Storage: 558.38GB SAS HDD*2 & 1117.25GB SAS HDD *9

Raid Card Configuration – Before Installation

（optional: depends on your requirement）

Device Setting > Raid Card > Main Menu > Virtual Disk Management > Create Raid etc.

FYI

For Enterprise Environment , OS disk should be Raid1/Mirror mode & Data disk should be Raid5/6.

Sometimes will have hot spare disk.

This page show the RAID configuration.

ESXi Installation

Summary Key:

F11 One Shot UEFI Boot Menu ESXi ISO(your USB) Enter(Continue) F11 (Accept and Continue) Select OS location Enter Input Password Enter F11(Install)

Sources

ESXi 7.03 Dell ISO