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1. Right-click on the ESXi 5.5host and select "New Virtual Machine" from the pop-up shortcut menu:

2. There are two options here. The "typical" option is to skip some default values that rarely need to be changed, thus shortening the process of creating a virtual machine. The "Custom" option provides more flexibility and options, and the "Custom" option is generally used:

3. Enter the name of the virtual machine to be created:

4. Select the storage location of the virtual machine. Since there is only one storage location and is the local disk, you can click next by default (but the local disk will not be used in the actual project, because many of the highly available features of vSPhere cannot be realized by selecting the local disk, and the details will be written in future articles):

5. Select the hardware version of the virtual machine to be created here. The higher the version, the higher the virtual hardware features supported. Therefore, in general, version 8 is selected in the actual project operation:

6. Select the operating system you are going to install:

7. The maximum CPU that a virtual machine can allocate is 32, but the maximum number of CPU that can be allocated needs to be determined according to the assigned ESXi 5.5license, client operating system, and virtual hardware version:

8. The maximum memory of the virtual machine is determined by the physical machine and virtual hardware version of ESXi 5.5. version 8 supports 1011GB, version 7 supports 255GB, and version 4 supports 65532MB. VSPhere allows virtual machines to have more memory than ESXi 5.5 host memory, but has a serious impact on the performance of virtual machines:

9. You can add a virtual network card according to your own needs. Here I assign a virtual network card of E1000:

Several common virtual network cards are described as follows:

Except for the E1000 virtual network card, all the other virtual network cards must be installed with VMware Tools before they can be used. Although VMXNET 3 is officially recommended by VMware to enable the virtual machine to achieve the best performance, in terms of actual deployment and stability, in most actual project operations, the E1000 virtual network card is used the most.

10. Configure the SCSI controller type, where "LSI Logic SAS" and "VMware quasi-virtual" are only suitable for virtual machines with virtual hardware version 7 or higher. Select "LSI Logic SAS" here:

11. The next steps will be the same as VMware workstation, so we won't explain them, and we can finish them at last.

12. After the creation is completed, select the ESXi 5.5CVM first, and click according to the label shown below:

13. Click the button pointed to by the mouse pointer, and then find the ISO system image file to upload to the memory. As shown in the figure, each upload will prompt whether to use a file with the same name to prevent it from being replaced. Click "Yes" to start the upload:

14. Wait for the upload to be completed:

15. Right-click the virtual machine and click "Edit Settings":

16. Find the CD/DVD drive and click as follows:

17. Right-click the virtual machine on which you are going to install the system, and click as follows to get the same interface as usual for installing the system:

18. After the system is installed, you can click the following options to install or upgrade VMware Tools in the same way as VMware workstation:

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