Copy the ISO file in .iso format to the Provisioner PXE Server.

 

# The location for your ESX .iso files is this pre-existing directory:

/home/tftpboot/ISOs/esx

 

# The location for your ESXi .iso files is this pre-existing directory:

/home/tftpboot/ISOs/esxi

 

 

The contents of the ESXi directory will look like this:

ll /home/tftpboot/ISOs/esxi/

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 304859136 Sep  8  2011 VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0-469512.x86_64.iso (NOT RECOMMENDED)

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 306700288 Jul 12 09:15 VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0.update01-623860.x86_64.iso (NOT RECOMMENDED)

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 315185152 Sep 14 12:41 VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64.iso (RECOMMENDED)

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 319363072 Aug  2 08:15 VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0.update01-1065491.x86_64.iso (RECOMMENDED)

-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 341364736 Oct  3 17:41 VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.5.0-1331820.x86_64.iso (RECOMMENDED)

 

 

Note: your hardware may require custom ESXi ISOs that include the required drivers. For example, for Cisco UCS, you may need to obtain ISOs containing "_Cisco.iso".