Install ESXi Using the VMware Imaging Appliance
You can use the
VMware Imaging
Appliance service
(VIA) included with the VMware Cloud Builder appliance
to image servers for use in the management domain and VI workload
domains. For the supported ESXi versions, see
the BOM section of the
VMware Cloud
Foundation Release Notes
and the list of supported async patches in KB 88287.If you are preparing hosts for a VI
workload domain where the ESXi hosts have been async patched to a later version of
ESXi than the version listed in the BOM, the new hosts must use the later version of
ESXi.
The default root credentials for servers
imaged with VIA are user
root
, password
EvoSddc!2016
. The
VMware Imaging
Appliance service
is deprecated in
VMware
Cloud Foundation
4.5.1 and removed in VMware
Cloud Foundation
4.5.2. See Install ESXi Interactively and Configure Hosts for VMware Cloud Foundation for an alternative method
of preparing ESXi hosts.