Location Of The Esx Installation Media; Download The Esx Iso Image And Burn The Installation Dvd; Creating A Media Depot - VMware ESX 4.0 - INSTALLATION GUIDE UPDATE 1 Installation Manual

Location of the ESX Installation Media

Before you install ESX, you must select a location for the installation media.
The following locations are supported:
Local DVD
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Local USB
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USB DVD drive. This is useful if you cannot burn a DVD image or the host does not have a DVD drive.
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Remote media (See
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Remote location (media depot), accessible via HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, or NFS
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This chapter includes the following topics:

"Download the ESX ISO Image and Burn the Installation DVD,"

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"Creating a Media Depot,"

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Download the ESX ISO Image and Burn the Installation DVD
If you do not have an ESX installation DVD, you can create one.
Procedure
1 If you are not already logged into VMware Communities, log on using your VMware store account.
2 Download the ISO image for ESX from the VMware download page at
http://www.vmware.com/download/.
3 Burn the ISO image onto DVD media.
Creating a Media Depot
The media depot is a network-accessible location that contains the ESX installation media. You can use HTTP/
HTTPS, FTP, or NFS to access the depot. The depot must be populated with the entire contents of the ESX
installation DVD, preserving directory structure.
If you are performing a scripted installation, you must point to the media depot in the script by including the
command with the
install
The following code snippet from an ESX installation script demonstrates how to format the pointer to the media
depot if you are using NFS:
install nfs --server=example.com --dir=/nfs3/VMware/ESX/40
If you are performing an interactive installation instead of a scripted installation, include the askmedia boot
option, which causes the installer to prompt you for the location of the media.
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"Using Remote Management Applications,"
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nfs url
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