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October 1st, 2020 05:00
ESXI 7.0 on Poweredge R630 Server
I am new to working with servers and bought a server (Poweredge 630) used to learn. This server came with VMware ESXI 7.0 installed and dont know the root password. I want to remove VMware ESXI to install windows server operating system, but I dont have any idea on how to remove ESXI from the server. Could someone of you help please
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October 1st, 2020 11:00
JZ480,
This would be determined by where it is booting ESXi from, either on the hard drives, an internal or external USB, or from the internal SD module.
If it is installed on the drives then you would simply need to access the raid controller and delete the Virtual Disk with ESXi on it, then create a new Virtual Disk.
If on USB you can remove the USB.
If on the DUAL Sd, you can format them to remove ESXi.
After whichever you do, you would need to change the boot order to reflect how and where you're installing the Windows OS.
Let me know if this helps.