Install VMware ESXi 5.5

The Subject that i should write about long time ago
well i have a long Road Map for this Tech and its a never ending journey:
• Install VMware ESXi 5.5
• VMware vCenter 5.5
• VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 (vCSA)
• Integrate VMware vCenter Single Sign-On (SSO) with Active Directory
• How to Add ISCSI Storage to VMware ESXi
• Clone your perfect Virtual Machine
• Migrate VMs with VMware vMotion
• VMware DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler)
• Vmware Affinity
• Converting a Physical Server to VMware Machine (P2V)
• VMware Storage DRS
• VMware High Availability
• VMware Fault Tolerance
• VMware 5.5 Configuring vCenter Server Linked Mode (Single Console Multiple vCenter)
• Upgrade VMware vCenter 5.5 to 6.0
• Upgrade ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 using Update Manager
• VMware 6.0 Configuring vCenter Server Enhanced Linked Mode
• VMware vMotion Cross vCenter 6.0
• VMware vSphere Auto Deploy
• Migrating vCenter Server 6.5 for Windows to vCenter Server Appliance 6.7
So i show in my earlier blog How to Debloy CUCM in ESXI Now i will show you how to install that VMWare ESXi from the scratch
so first you need to have a CD of the ESXi which can be downloaded from their web site
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/details?productId=352&downloadGroup=ESXI550

Then Burn that ESXi image to CD and inseart in the Machine and it will start loading

Then it will appear a welcome message Just Press (Enter) Continue
it will Ask you to Accept the End User License Agreement (EULA)
it will start to Scan the Devices in your system
Then Press (Enter) Continue to choose the Desk you need to install the ESXi on
Then Choose the Language and Press (Enter) Continue
it will prompt you for Password
type your password and confirm it
now Just press (F11) Install to start the installation

And it will start
Now your CD Room will eject and will ask you to Reboot the System so
Press (Enter) Reboot
The System will reboot and will come up Again

and finally your machine is up and you can see the http://0.0.0.0
so you need to configure your IP Address
Press (F2) to configure your Machine
it will ask you for the password that you earlier configured
now go to (Configure Management Network)
then go to IP Configuration
Select to Set Static IP Address
and fill the Filed
i Choose 192.168.208.209 as my ESXi IP Address
and press OK to confirm

now when you go back it will ask you to restart the Management Network
just press (Y) Yes

just to make sure an extra step try to test the reachability
go to Test management Network
fill the Address that you want to ping
im trying to ping 192.168.208.1 which is my Gateway
and Press (Enter)OK

and it ping went smoothly

now let me go to VMware vSphere Client and put the IP Address of my ESXi and the name and Password of my ESXi and press Login

Click Ignore for the Certificate

And here is my Lovely Machine