I will bring a spare USB flash to be permanently attached to the internal USB port where I will install the hypervisor to it after booting to the installation media that we just prepared.

This way we will avoid wasting a whole hard drive to contain solely the hypervisor itself. If you open the top cover you will find a USB port inside the case near the power supply housing on the motherboard where you can insert a flash drive. Now, click the 'Start' button and wait for that bar to be fully green in 'READY' state as shown in the picture above, then remove the installation media when finished.īoot Installation Media on Dell R720 Serverįirst of all, I prefer installing the VMware hypervisor into the internal USB flash port not to be confused with the installation media itself. Choose 'BIOS or UEFI' as your target system.Select your installation media under 'Device' where in my case it was a 8GB USB flash memory.Insert the flash device into your machine.