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4. Select the hypervisor partition for OS installation and install ESXi.

5. After ESXi is installed, reboot the system and configure the IP address.

6. Log in to the ESXi host using vSphere Client.

7. Add storage for VSA deployment and for uploading the ESXi patches and device drivers.

Note: See the section

Create Persistent Storage for VMware ESXi Logs and VSA Deployment

for information about adding the

storage to the ESXi host.

8. Download ESXi patches and device drivers from the following link and upload using the data-store browser from

vSphere Client:

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search

9. Put the ESXi host into maintenance mode.

vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter

10. From the ESXi shell, install the latest ESXi version (Figure 18).

Figure 18.

Installing VMware ESXi

11. Reboot the ESXi host and install the latest drivers for the network interface card (NIC), storage, and other components if

required from the Cisco driver ISO image (Figure 19)

Get access to the latest drivers from this link:

https://software.cisco.com/download/type.html?mdfid=286281356&flowid=71443

Figure 19. Installing VMware ESXi Drivers

Note 1: Remove old drivers if they were not removed during the new driver installation and upgrade processes.
Note 2: You can update ESX drivers using a ZIP file or a VIB file. For a ZIP file, use the -d flag, and for a VIB file,
use the -v flag.
12. Reboot the ESXi host and exit from maintenance mode:

vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit