After providing the root password, press F11 to start the installation. Root password: You will need to provide a password for the root account.ħ. deployments, you can accept the default settings and click “Continue”).ĭ. Keyboard layout: Keyboard layout (for most U.S. Select the boot volume, if in doubt the drive with the smaller total size should represent the boot volume and Click on “Continue.”Ĭ.
Choose the first M.2 SSD SATA drive that appears in the list of drives on the installation wizard.
Install location: This window will show two drives that were previously configured in the array controller prior to starting VMware setup, one representing the boot volume and one representing the data volume. License agreement: Press F11 to accept the license agreements.ī. Once the VMware setup starts (after the OS files are copied to the OS volume for installation), VMware setup will prompt you for the following information.Ī. Go through the VMware ESXi 6.7 installation wizard and start the installation.Ħ. This can be performed and monitored from a remote session to the HPE iLO webpage of the servers.ĥ. This will start the OS installation on the server. Insert the bootable USB sticks into the servers and reboot them from USB. While installing VMware ESXi on M.2 SSD, don’t create RAID through SSA (Smart Storage Administrator).Ĥ. Under Embedded SATA configuration, select “SATA AHCI support” from the drop-down list. Choose Storage Options, select SATA Controller and press enter.ĭ. Select BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) and press enter.Ĭ. During server boot, press F9 (System Utilities) to load System configuration.ī. Following BIOS setting needs to be changed to install ESXi 6.7 on M.2 SSD.Ī. You can turn secure boot back on after the OS is installed on the primary M.2 boot disk.ģ. While installing VMware, disable secure boot in the server BIOS.
Bootable USB sticks created from other software products caused the installation to fail or hang in the middle of the process. HPE recommends using Rufus software to create the image. Create a bootable USB stick with the ISO image on your laptop. Acquire the VMware ESXi 6.7 ISO image and the license code.Ģ.
Please fin the below steps to Install VMware ESXi 6.7 on the M.2 SSDs of the servers :ġ.