Starting with vSphere 6.5, VMware Auto Deploy supports network booting and provisioning of ESXi hosts with UEFI.ĮSXi can boot from a disk larger than 2 TB if the system firmware and the firmware on any add-in card that you are using support it. With UEFI, you can boot systems from hard drives, CD-ROM drives, or USB media. VSphere 6.5 supports booting ESXi hosts from the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). For Software Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), see Installing and Booting ESXi with Software FCoE. To use the SATA CD-ROM device, you must use IDE emulation mode.įor a list of supported storage systems, see the VMware Compatibility Guide at. Note: You cannot connect a SATA CD-ROM device to a virtual machine on anĮSXi 6.5 host. These disks are not used as a scratch partition by default because they are seen as remote. SATA disks are considered remote, not local.
ESXi 6.5 requires a minimum of 4 GB of physical RAM.ESXi 6.5 requires the NX/XD bit to be enabled for the CPU in the BIOS.For a complete list of supported processors, see the VMware compatibility guide at. This includes a broad range of multi-core processors. ESXi 6.5 supports 64-bit x86 processors released after September 2006.ESXi 6.5 requires a host machine with at least two CPU cores.For a list of supported platforms, see the VMware Compatibility Guide at.
To install or upgrade ESXi, your hardware and system resources must meet the following requirements: Make sure the host meets the minimum hardware configurations supported by ESXi 6.5.