Installing VMware ESXi 5.5 using the Interactive Installer KB2052439

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2052439 - This video discusses and demonstrates how to install VMware ESXi 5.5 using the Interactive Installer.

Interactive installations are recommended for small deployments of fewer than five hosts.

You boot the installer from a CD or DVD, from a bootable USB device, or by PXE booting the installer from a location on the network, then follow the prompts in the installation wizard to install ESXi to disk.

In a typical interactive installation, you boot the ESXi installer and respond to the installer prompts to install ESXi to the local host disk. The installer reformats and partitions the target disk and installs the ESXi boot image. If you have not installed ESXi on the target disk before, all data located on the drive is overwritten, including hardware vendor partitions, operating system partitions, and associated data.

If you are installing ESXi on a disk that contains a previous installation of ESXi/ESX or a VMFS datastore, the installer provides you with options for upgrading.

Caution: To ensure that you do not lose any data, migrate the data to another machine before you install ESXi.

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