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How to Install vSphere ESXi 7 in VMware Workstation



How to Install vSphere ESXi 7 on VMware Workstation

? Overview

VMware vSphere ESXi is a bare-metal hypervisor for virtualizing servers. It provides the essential services for consolidating applications and simplifying the management of your infrastructure and can be bought with vSphere or gotten as a free, downloadable version. vSphere 7 was released 02 April 2020 with some significant enhancements, the biggest being the rearchitected with native Kubernetes into an open platform that enables you to run existing enterprise applications alongside modern containerized applications in a unified manner. In this video, I will go through the steps to install VMware vSphere ESXi 7 in VMware Workstation

? Download vSphere ESXi 7 :

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? vSphere ESXi 7 Hardware requirements

Minimum hardware requirements for ESXi are:

✔ CPU. A two-core x86_64 CPU on the computer where the ESXi host will run. Intel VT-x or AMD-v (RVI) features must be enabled in UEFI/BIOS.

✔ RAM. 4 GB of RAM to run ESXi and at least 8 GB of RAM to run VMs on an ESXi host. The more memory your computer/server running ESXi has, the more VMs you can run.

✔ Storage. At least 8 GB of disk space is required to install and boot ESXi 7.0. ESXi can be installed on a separate HDD or SSD, RAID, and even a USB flash drive or SD card. Be aware that when you install ESXi on a USB flash drive or SD card, there is no persistent /scratch partition to store logs. It is recommended that you provide 32 GB or more on a boot device for ESXi. A boot device must not be shared between multiple ESXi hosts. Opt for SCSI (SAS) disks for VM storage.

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