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VCP 5 Section 1.2 - ESXi Interactive Installation
Perform an ESXi Interactive Instalation
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12/20/2012

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Term
What size environment is interactive installation recommended for?
Definition
Small environments: 5 or less hosts
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In what locations could you have the ESXi installer ISO to do an interractive installation?
Definition

1. On CD or DVD - can download and burn the ESXi Installer ISO image to CD or DVD

 

 

2. On a USB flash drive

Term
Where can you install the ESXi software onto? Name 4 options
Definition
SAS, SATA, SCSI hard drive or USB drive
Term
What time zone should the server hardware clock be set to?
Definition
UTC - this setting is in the system BIOS
Term

For what reason would you disconnect your network storage for interractive installation?

 

What storage should you not disconnect (2 types) and why?

Definition

To decrease the time for the installer to search for availabel disk drives.

 

Never disconnect a LUN that contains an existing ESX or ESXi installation.

 

Don't disconect a VMFS datastore that contains the Service  Console of an existing ESX installation.

Term
Can an interractive installation be performed on a machine that contains ESXi Embeded?
Definition
No, they cannot exist on the same host.
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