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| ==Introduction== | | == Summary == |
| | | Uplaoding files from nsx.ninja and iwan.wiki |
| For my [[New Lab Server (2016)|new lab server]] I have created a new bootable USB flash disk for the initial installation of ESX version 6.
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| As I am a Mac user I found [https://github.com/cbednarski/vmware-usb-osx this procedure] that explains how to create a bootable ESX 6 USB drive using OS X.
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| == Creating the disk ==
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| '''Download "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64.iso" from the VMware website.'''
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| '''Download the "vmware-usb-osx-master" tool and upzip it.'''
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| '''Browse to the "vmware-usb-osx-master" directory.'''
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| {{console|body=
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:~ iwanhoogendoorn$ cd Downloads/
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| {{console|body=
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:Downloads iwanhoogendoorn$ cd vmware-usb-osx-master
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| }}
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| '''Verify if the "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64.iso" is in that directory and if not place it in there.'''
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| {{console|body=
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:vmware-usb-osx-master iwanhoogendoorn$ ls
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| LICENSE
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| Makefile
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| README.md
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| ##b####y##VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64.iso
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| syslinux.cfg
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| }}
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| '''Rename "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64.iso" to "esxi.iso".'''
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| {{console|body=
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:vmware-usb-osx-master iwanhoogendoorn$ mv VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.0.0.update02-3620759.x86_64.iso esxi.iso
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| }}
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| '''Verify if the renaming is done correctly.'''
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| {{console|body=
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:vmware-usb-osx-master iwanhoogendoorn$ ls
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| LICENSE Makefile README.md ##y##esxi.iso##!y## syslinux.cfg
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| }}
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| '''Verify the disks that are currently inserted.'''
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| {{console|body=
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:vmware-usb-osx-master iwanhoogendoorn$ make devices
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| diskutil list
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| /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
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| #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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| 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
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| 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
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| 2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 999.7 GB disk0s2
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| 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
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| /dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
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| #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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| 0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +999.3 GB disk1
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| Logical Volume on disk0s2
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| 75DB85AD-BE28-43ED-9487-C1BA421E5D17
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| Unencrypted
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| /dev/disk4 (disk image):
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| #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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| 0: Apple_partition_scheme +18.1 MB disk4
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| 1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk4s1
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| 2: Apple_HFS Flash Player 18.1 MB disk4s2
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| }}
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| '''Insert the USB Flash Disk at this point.'''
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| {{console|body=
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:vmware-usb-osx-master iwanhoogendoorn$ make devices
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| diskutil list
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| /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
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| #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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| 0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
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| 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
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| 2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 999.7 GB disk0s2
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| 3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
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| /dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
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| #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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| 0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +999.3 GB disk1
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| Logical Volume on disk0s2
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| 75DB85AD-BE28-43ED-9487-C1BA421E5D17
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| Unencrypted
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| ##b####y##/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
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| ##b####y## #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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| ##b####y## 0: GUID_partition_scheme *4.0 GB disk2
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| ##b####y## 1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
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| ##b####y## 2: Apple_HFS Untitled 3.7 GB disk2s2
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| /dev/disk4 (disk image):
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| #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
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| 0: Apple_partition_scheme +18.1 MB disk4
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| 1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk4s1
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| 2: Apple_HFS Flash Player 18.1 MB disk4s2
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| }}
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| '''You will see that a new disk "disk2" is there and this is the USB Flash disk that we will use for the bootable disk creation.'''
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| '''Now we can create the actual boot disk.'''
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| {{console|body=
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:vmware-usb-osx-master iwanhoogendoorn$ make vmware DISK=2
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| hdiutil convert -format UDRW -o esxi.img esxi.iso
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| Reading ESXI-6.0.0-20160302001-STANDARD (Apple_ISO : 0)…
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| ...............................................................................
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| Elapsed Time: 1.649s
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| Speed: 217.0Mbytes/sec
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| Savings: 0.0%
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| created: /Users/iwanhoogendoorn/Downloads/vmware-usb-osx-master/esxi.img.dmg
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| # Format USB device as a bootable MS-DOS volume
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| diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
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| Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
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| diskutil eraseDisk MS-DOS ESXI MBR /dev/disk2
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| Started erase on disk2
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| Unmounting disk
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| Creating the partition map
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| Waiting for the disks to reappear
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| Formatting disk2s1 as MS-DOS (FAT) with name ESXI
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| newfs_msdos: warning: sectors/FAT limits sectors to 7866358, clusters to 981374
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| 512 bytes per physical sector
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| /dev/rdisk2s1: 7850992 sectors in 981374 FAT32 clusters (4096 bytes/cluster)
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| bps=512 spc=8 res=32 nft=2 mid=0xf8 spt=32 hds=255 hid=2 drv=0x80 bsec=7866358 bspf=7667 rdcl=2 infs=1 bkbs=6
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| Mounting disk
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| Finished erase on disk2
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| # Mount USB device to add syslinux.cfg
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| mkdir -p source
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| mkdir -p target
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| hdiutil mount esxi.iso -mountpoint ./source
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| /dev/disk3 /Users/iwanhoogendoorn/Downloads/vmware-usb-osx-master/source
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| cp -r source/ /Volumes/ESXI/
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| cp syslinux.cfg /Volumes/ESXI/
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| hdiutil eject ./source
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| "disk3" unmounted.
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| "disk3" ejected.
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| diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2
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| Unmount of all volumes on disk2 was successful
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| diskutil eject /dev/disk2
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| Disk /dev/disk2 ejected
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| ##b####bl##Iwans-MacBook-Pro:vmware-usb-osx-master iwanhoogendoorn$
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| }}
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| '''And you are finished.'''
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| [[Category:Articles]]
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