Installing VMware vSphere 7.0 is a fairly straight forward task, in simplistic terms, it involves grabbing hold of the ISO, whether that be from VMware or from the hardware vendor of your servers.
The installation is really broken down into 4 steps.
Installing ESXi does have some requirements and the Hardware requirements are as follows. Make sure that you have the supported platform and for more information, visit the VMware compatibility guide
vSphere ESXi requires
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At least two CPU cores
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The NX/XD bit to be enabled for the CPU in BIOS
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Requires a minimum of 4 GB of physical RAM,
however provide at least 8 GB of RAM to run virtual machines.
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To support 64-bit VMs enable hardware
virtualisation on the host.
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One of more Gigabit or faster NICs
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A boot disk of 8 GB for USB or SD devices, if
using HDD, SSD, or NVMe, then at least 32 GB of disk space. Also provide space
for VMs if storing locally.
Once the ESXi host is installed, the host’s basic
configuration will need to be configured, and this will be covered in a later
blog.