ESXi 8.0 provides many options for booting the installer over a network and using an installation or upgrade script.
- For information about setting up a network infrastructure, see Network Booting the ESXi Installer.
- For information about creating and locating an installation script, see Installing ESXi by Using a Script.
- For specific procedures to network boot the ESXi installer and use an installation script, see one of the following topics:
- For information about using vSphere Auto Deploy to perform a scripted installation by using PXE to boot, see Installing ESXi Using vSphere Auto Deploy.