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VMware vSphere 7, the latest release of VMware’s virtualization platform, introduces a number of new useful features and many companies are looking forward to upgrading from vSphere 6.7 to 7.0. By Michael Bose How to Upgrade from VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 Note :- Boot order has to be configured in the server BIOS. Next Connect the USB drive to the server, power on and select the first boot device as USB and server will booted to Installation of vSphere 6.7 Once it is completed in application window you can see status hows READY and vSphere 6.7 UBN installer media is ready USB drive will be formatted and copying of installation files to USB device will start and it will take less than 2 Minute. Note:-you can notice the device shows ready state ob this window You will get a Popup message asking to replace menu.c32, Select Yes to continueĪ warning message will Popup All Data on the Device will be Destroyed, continue to Click OK Note:- Leave the partition Scheme as default “MBR” or if it is shown as GPT please change to MBR and If required you may modify the Volume Label or leave it as default one USB “ with Capacity of 4 GB and Browse and map the downloaded ESXi ISO ” VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0-8169922.x86_64.iso ” and Click on Start Verify the UDB Drive, here we are using ” Navigate to the Rufus and vSphere 6.7 ISO Location and you can identify them as like below

USB Drive– A USB Drive with minimum capacity 4 GB or USB devices with 8 / 16 GB.

Free Software – A free software capable to make USB bootable, we are using Rufus free tool and you can download that from.

How to Obtain Free Version Of vSphere (ESXi) 6.7

vSphere 6.7 standard or Custom ISO image download from.

Note:- You may create a Custom ISO by referring

Vendor specified Custom ISO availability.

Hardware Firmware and Driver version from VMware and Vendor Website.

Virtualization Technology Intel VT or AMD-V available and enabled.

Hardware Compatibility with vSphere 6.7 from.

, you can validate that requirement from the below checklist In this post, I will explain how to create a bootable ESXi 6.7 Installer USB Drive using a free tool called Rufus. Following this method, you can create a bootable USB with vSphere 6.7 installer in less than two minutes.īefore starting the installation, you have to verify that all the prerequisites are met to install However, some cases due to a firmware issue, a limited number of ports on switch remote console license unavailability or CD ROM unavailability we will have challenges to install ESXi, in that case, bootable USB with ESXi installer will help to install the hypervisor. As we know there are multiple options like remote management console (KVM, ILO, iDRAC), CD Drive to install the ESXi to Physical Server.

On April 2018 and I have shared the details on one of my blog post.