From the course: VMware vSphere 8 Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization (VCTA-DCV) (1V0-21.20) Cert Prep

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Demo: Installing ESXi 8 using interactive installation

Demo: Installing ESXi 8 using interactive installation

- [Instructor] In this video, I'll be demonstrating how to install ESXi v8.0 using the interactive installation method. And I'll be demonstrating these tasks using my home lab that I've created on VMware Workstation. But although you'll see me installing ESXi 8.0 on a virtual machine in my lab environment, you can follow the same process to install ESXi on a physical host. And so, we'll get started by creating a new virtual machine here in VMware Workstation. And I'm going to do a custom configuration here. And I'll click Next here at the first option. And here you can see I can choose an ISO image. And as you can see, I've done this a few times before here in this lab environment. I've got a few ISO images from past versions of vSphere. I am going to browse and what I need to do is find my ISO image for ESXi v8.0. And if you're used to physical computers, this is kind of like putting a CD or a DVD or any kind of bootable media into that computer. I'm going to use the ISO image to…

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