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Creating an OS Image

You can use two different methods to create an OS image for VMware ESX on the Image Prepare System and installed from a boot server.

• Copy the VMware ESXI DVD(CD) manually into an NFS share.
  The created OS image for VMware ESXi contains only files that are required to start the Linux boot kernel and to control the OS installation process.
• Use the VMware ESXi software packages that are embedded inside the OS image.
  The OS image contains the entire DVD(CD) contents.

You can create an OS image on the Image Prepare System either with a command-line utility from a command prompt window or by using the DSM Explorer.

Create OS Image Command:

This command requires the type (-o option) and the name (-i option) of the OS image to be created. The new introduced types for VMware ESXi are:

createosimage -o VMWARE-ESXi51 -i esxi51