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[This still works great with ESXi 5.5 – September 2013]

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[UPDATE March 2014 – shell script to automate this process is also available.]

A flexible PXE infrastructure can be a real force multiplier in your technology arsenal. Fully-automated installs are great time-savers, but there is also value in being able to perform an interactive (manual) install of VMware ESXi, Linux, or Windows over the network. Physical installation media is becoming less and less viable in this day of lights-out datacenters, and virtual media capabilities provided with remote consoles, such as iLO, are best reserved for punishing junior members of the team. It’s easy enough to have a Linux-based PXE server coexist with Windows Deployment Services — useful for environments that need to deploy various operating systems on a single VLAN.

William Lam is the de-facto authority on fully-automated ESXi deployments, and others have provided recipes for configuring VMware ESXi 4.1 installation media for interactive PXE installation.

The good news is that with VMware ESXi 5 it is no longer necessary to create the image.tgz file to accommodate a manual PXE installation, and another handy enhancement to boot.cfg makes it slightly cleaner to organize multiple installation sources on a PXE/TFTP server.

Take a look at the following procedures to learn more:

Prepare the VMware ESXi 5 Installation Media

On your TFTP server, simply extract the contents of the installation ISO into a new directory.

sed-e's#/##g'-e'3s#^#prefix=/`basename $PWD`/n#'-i.bak boot.cfg

End result will look something like this:

This is much cleaner that repeating the full path dozens of times throughout the file.

Add a PXE Menu Entry

Typically the PXE menu is pxelinux.cfg/default; add the following section and you’ll be set: