Network Boot the ESXi Installer for a Scripted Installation or Upgrade

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:
  • Boot the ESXi Installer by Using Native UEFI HTTP
  • Boot the ESXi Installer by Using iPXE and HTTP
  • Boot the ESXi Installer by Using PXE and TFTP
• For information about using vSphere Auto Deploy to perform a scripted upgrade by using PXE to boot, see Using vSphere Auto Deploy to Reprovision Hosts.