The vSphere ISO you want to install - you can download the latest version from VMware: licensed copies here and free evaluation copies here.(The vSphere 5.1 installation media will end being between 290 and 330MB, so a 1GB drive will do just fine.) This post will walk you through the process. It turns out you can use your Windows system to create the installation media, and it’s pretty easy. The thing is, the instructions I could find were for using a Linux system to create the key and my work-issued laptop runs Windows. VMware’s online documentation describes how to do this. It turns out the easiest solution in this situation is to convert a USB thumb drive into a bootable installation key. I came across this situation at a customer site recently. Have you ever wanted to install ESXi on a host that doesn’t have a CD-ROM drive? Maybe you also don’t have a TFTP server, so installing over the network isn’t an option either.
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