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9 Boot the machine with the network adapter.
PXE Boot the ESXi Installer by Using PXELINUX and an isolinux.cfg PXE Configuration File
You can PXE boot the ESXi installer using PXELINUX, and use the isolinux.cfg file as the PXE configuration
file.
See also “About Installation and Upgrade Scripts,” on page 184 and “About the boot.cfg File,” on page 193
Prerequisites
Verify that your environment has the following components:
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The ESXi installer ISO image downloaded from the VMware Web site.
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TFTP server that supports PXE booting with PXELINUX. See “About the TFTP Server, PXELINUX, and
gPXE,” on page 158.
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DHCP server configured for PXE booting. See “Sample DHCP Configuration,” on page 160.
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PXELINUX
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Server with a hardware configuration that is supported with your version of ESXi. See the Hardware
Compatibility Guide at http://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php.
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Network security policies to allow TFTP traffic (UDP port 69)
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(Optional) Installation script, the kickstart file. See “About Installation and Upgrade Scripts,” on
page 184.
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Network adapter with PXE support on the target ESXi host
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IPv4 networking. IPv6 is not supported for PXE booting.
Use a native VLAN in most cases. If you want to specify the VLAN ID to be used with PXE booting, check
that your NIC supports VLAN ID specification.
Procedure
1 Create the /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg directory on your TFTP server.
2 On the Linux machine, install PXELINUX.
PXELINUX is included in the SYSLINUX package. Extract the files, locate the file pxelinux.0 and copy
it to the /tftpboot directory on your TFTP server.
3 Configure the DHCP server.
The DHCP server sends the following information to your client hosts:
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The name or IP address of your TFTP server.
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The name of your initial boot file. This is pxelinux.0.
4 Copy the contents of the ESXi installer image to the /var/lib/tftpboot directory on the TFTP server.
5 (Optional) For a scripted installation, in the boot.cfg file, add the kernelopt option on the next line after
the kernel command, to specify the location fo the installation script.
In the following example, XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX is the IP address of the server where the installation
script resides.
kernelopt=ks=http://XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/esxi_ksFiles/ks.cfg
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