Installation over VMware ESXi

VMware ESXi is a good example of a type 1 hypervisor that runs directly on the system. Sometimes they're called bare-metal hypervisors, and they provide many features compared to type 2 hypervisors, such as VMware workstation/Fusion or VirtualBox:

  1. Open the vSphere client and connect to your ESXi server
  2. From the File menu, choose Deploy OVF Template
  3. Enter the path for the downloaded OVA image and click Next:
  1. Accept all the default settings suggested by the hypervisor till you land on the final page, Ready to Complete, and click on Finish:

ESXi will start to deploy the image on the hypervisor, and later you ...

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