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Yes, but cannot do that until it is powered on right? &nbsp;By then it has already given me the press any key to continue...
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Yes, but cannot do that until it is powered on right?  By then it has already given me the press any key to continue...

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I connected the CD and then rebooted the VM and it worked. &nbsp;Thanks.
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I connected the CD and then rebooted the VM and it worked.  Thanks.

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Hello,<br />
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I need to create a new base image template for Windows Server for our VM infrastructure. &nbsp;I have created a new VM, and of course it just says it cannot find an OS. &nbsp;How to do I get it to boot from a windows ISO to install the OS?
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Hello,

I need to create a new base image template for Windows Server for our VM infrastructure.  I have created a new VM, and of course it just says it cannot find an OS.  How to do I get it to boot from a windows ISO to install the OS?

How do I install Windows Server on a VMware ESX Virtual Machine

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.