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Two weeks ago I was presented with a problem regarding the use of drivers that were not part of the standard ESXi ISO. I started looking into it and discovered there are two main solutions for a problem like this.

Vmware Vmvisor Installer Iso
Vmware-vmvisor-installer-6.7.0 Iso

Installing drivers during the installation
Injecting drivers into the ISO

The ESXi ISO image, VMware-VMvisor-Installer-versionnumber-buildnumber.x8664.iso, which includes the isolinux.cfg file; Syslinux package; Procedure. If your USB flash drive is not detected as /dev/sdb, or you are not sure how your USB flash drive is detected, determine how it is detected. How to Install VMware ESXi 6.7U2 VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6.7U2 Setup SYSNETTECH Solutions Article Read More ⬇️ S U B S. The result can be similar to the following message. Disk /dev/sdb: 2004 MB, bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065. 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 2 c W95 FAT32 (LBA). Burn the VMware ESXi ISO image to a CD. Insert the CD into the server and make sure that the server is set to boot to CDROM in the bios. Once the CD boots you will be presented with the VMware ESXi boot menu. Select ESXi Installer and press enter. Many VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0 installations fail due to corrupt downloads. Installing VMware vSphere Hypervisor 6.0 (ESXi 6.0) Write (Burn) the VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0-21592 03.x8664. Iso downloaded in Step 1, to a blank CDROM, using your favourite CD.

Both solutions have it's advantage and disadvantage but I guess the main argument why I prefer to install drivers during the installation versus injecting them into the ISO is flexibility and support. When a new driver is released I want to be able to change the driver bundle instantly without the need to repackage the ISO and I want the installation mechanism to be fully supported. However there are always corner cases where it might be required to inject the driver into the ISO. In this article we will describe both methods. I have used the following articles and documents to create this article:

Installing drivers during the installation

The steps required to install drivers during a scripted installation are straight forward. First the driver package needs to be downloaded and preferably hosted on an internal website. I would recommend using the same location as were the ks.cfg is stored for your scripted install. (If http based of course.)

With ESXi there are two sections where you can define post installation actions. These sections are %post and %firstboot. The difference between these two is that all actions defined in %post will run before the Installer reboots the host where all actions defined in %firstboot will run during the first boot. In the case of %firstboot this is done by a script located in /etc/vmware/init/init.d/ with a prefix of 999, which means it is the last script to be executed during boot.

Depending on the driver that needs to be installed you will either need to use the %post or the %firstboot section. The %post section is mostly used in the case where a network driver needs to be downloaded before the restart, see my article on yellow-bricks.com for an example. In most cases however placing all commands in %firstboot should suffice. Our example will deal with the most common scenario and that is the download and installation of a driver in the %firstboot section.

Edit the install script and include the following in the %firstboot section where <ip-address> needs to be replaced with the ip-address of the web server and <driverbundle> with the name of the actual bundle:

<h3>Inject drivers into the ISO</h3><h2 id='vmware-vmvisor-installer-iso'>Vmware Vmvisor Installer Iso</h2><p>The second options which enables you to use drivers that are not part of the standard ISO is to inject them into the ISO. This is a bit more complex and a less flexible solution as every update to the drivers will require the ISO to be repackaged. Also note that VMware currently does <span>not</span> support the injection of drivers into the ISO and this procedure is provided 'as is' without warranty/guarantee.</p><img src='https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Create-ESXi-6.5-Installation-USB.png' alt='Iso' title='Iso' /><p>The following tools are used to alter the ISO:</p><ol><li>VMware Workstation (VMware Player or ESXi will also work)</li></ol><p>The first step is to import the Auto Deploy appliance into VMware Workstation. When it has been imported you will need to power it on and make the ESXi ISO available. (If the power-on fails with a kernel panic you will need to change the SCSI device to 'lsilogic' and the OS to 'Redhat 5 – 64Bit'.) When the ISO is available the following steps will need to be taken to inject a driver:</p><ol><li>Mount the ISO image<br /><span>sudo mount -o loop VMware-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0.update1-348481.x86_64.iso /mnt/iso/</span></li><li>Create a new folder which will be used for the content of the mounted IS0<br /><span>mkdir /tmp/custom-iso</span></li><li>Copy the content of the ISO to the folder<br /><span>cp -R /mnt/iso/* /tmp/custom-iso/</span></li><li>Go to the tmp folder<br /><span>cd /tmp<br /></span></li><li>Unzup the image to enable the injection of a bundle<br /><span>sudo bunzip2 -c /tmp/custom-iso/imagedd.bz2 > imagedd</span></li><li>Inject the bundle (-o) or a driver (-v) into the image, for the exercise we will insert a single .vib file, please not that <filename.vib> will need to replaced with the actual filename<br /><span>sudo vibddi -i imagedd -v <filename.vib> -n</span></li><li>Validate that the bundle has been injected<br /><span>sudo vibddi -i imagedd -q</span></li><li>Zip the image<br /><span>bzip2 imagedd</span></li><li>Create a new checksum<span><br />md5sum imagedd.bz2</span></li><li>Copy the checksum and replace the checksum in the following file using your favorite editor (I used 'vi')<span><br />/tmp/custom-iso/imagedd.md5</span></li><li>Copy the file to the custom ISO folder (might need to 'sudo' depending on the permissions)<br /><span>cp imagedd.bz2 /tmp/custom-iso/</span></li><li>Go to the custom ISO folder<br /><span>cd /tmp/custom-iso</span></li><li>Recreate the ESXi ISO<br /><span>mkisofs -l -J -R -r -T -input-charset UTF-8 -o /tmp/VMware-Custom-VMvisor-Installer-4.1.0.update1-348481.x86_64.iso -b isolinux.bin -c boot.cat -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -boot-info-table /tmp/custom-iso</span></li></ol><p>Now the ISO should be ready for use! Again, please note that VMware does not support the 'vibddi' injection mechanism. However, I decided to document this procedure as in some cases it is very difficult to install ESXi without having the drivers packaged inside the ISO and I wanted to show that it is possible.</p><p>Hopefully this will ease your migration to ESXi.</p><p>In this article I will show you how to install VMware vSphere 7.0. If you are looking for instructions about how to install the older version vSphere 6.7, you can find them here.</p><p>To begin with, you need an installation iso for vSphere 7.0, which you can download from your My.VMware account. I downloaded VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0.0-15843807.x86_64.iso (vSphere 7.0 build 15843807). I will install vSphere into a virtual machine (don’t do this in production, this is a configuration unsupported by VMware, but often seen in home labs), so I will just mount the iso file into the CD drive and power on the VM.</p><h2 id='vmware-vmvisor-installer-670-iso'>Vmware-vmvisor-installer-6.7.0 Iso</h2><h4>Install VMware vSphere 7.0</h4><p>As soon as the VM boots, you will see a “Loading ESXi installer” screen:</p><p>You can see now the well-known yellow screen. vSphere version and build are mentioned on the screen. Nothing to do, just wait:</p><p>Few moments later we need to confirm the operation. Press Enter to continue, or Cancel to abort:</p><p>Read and accept the End User License Agreement. Press F11 to accept EULA and continue the installation or Escape to abort it.</p><p>Next phase is a short one, vSphere is scanning our storage devices for few seconds to find available devices.</p><p>We now have to make our first decision: where do we install vSphere. In my case I have a single 40 GB disk so I will just press Enter to continue. You may have multiple devices listed here, make sure you plan where do you want to install vSphere and make the choice accordingly.</p><p>Next we have to select the desired keyboard layout. I will keep the default one (US Default). I will press Enter to continue.</p><p>We now need to enter the secret root password twice. You can move from “Root password” field to “Confirm password” field using down arrow key from your keyboard. Check this article for ESXi password requirements. Press Enter to continue.</p><p>vSphere 7.0 stopped supporting two Intel processor families (Intel Family 6, Model = 2C, Westmere-EP, and Intel Family 6, Model = 2F, Westmere-EX), so if you have one the old processors you will receive now an error and your installation will fail. Press F11 to reboot, your installation stops here.</p><p>Hopefully you have a supported processor and you can proceed with the next step. We need now to confirm the installation. This is the last wizard step where you can cancel the installation. Press F11 to proceed.</p><p>Installation starts immediately:</p><p>Installation process is pretty quick. In few minutes you will see the “Installation Complete” message! As instructed on-screen, remove the installation kit you used to boot the server up, then press Enter to reboot.</p><p>vSphere starts the reboot process. In few minutes, VMware vSphere 7.0 will be up and running!</p><h4>vSphere 7.0 – Configure Network and DNS</h4><p>As you can see in above image, vSphere obtained a DHCP allocated IP address. In order to change this to a manually configured IP address, press F2 to customize the system. After login, go to “Configure Management Network” and press Enter. Go to “IPv4 Configuration” and press Enter. Check “Set static IPv4 address…” and configure IPv4 address, subnet mask and the default gateway. Press Enter.</p><p>We will now change the DNS configuration, go to “DNS Configuration” and press Enter. Configure your DNS server details and the hostname. Press Enter. Press Escape to exit the Management Network Configuration. Press Y to restart the network services.</p><p>Go back to login screen, you should confirm now the hostname and the static IPv4 address configured before.</p><p>Enjoy your new vSphere 7.0 server, release build 15843807!</p><div><h3><em>Related</em></h3></div><br><br><a href='https://netlify.mix-goapp.com/software-for-editing-video-mac.html#WEjUdg=XQQQQQFVWlNSQgAEBFZQAwlaUV0eRl5HUEMESEAIRFhKWhQYC11AQlFbWFRGTQwXClEHFVdDVlxXWARPB1QDHQkZEVYHUV9PGwYYHQBIV1RXA0pQHgIfVV8cNDAaVAIGCRsIVhZfWlBJGVVBREpJEABKEhYXA1IVAlAy' target='_blank'><img src='https://cdn-ak.f.st-hatena.com/images/fotolife/r/ruriatunifoefec/20200910/20200910011354.png' style='cursor:pointer;display:block;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;'></a><br><br></p>
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