Your future self—the one not debugging a midnight PSOD due to a SATA AHCI driver mismatch—will thank you.
Using the standard VMware image on HPE "iron" often leads to missing hardware sensors or unrecognized boot drives. The custom image provides: hpe custom image for esxi
Essential for 10GbE adapters, FC/FCoE, and Smart Array storage controllers not found in the base ISO. Your future self—the one not debugging a midnight
If you run a single homelab server, the vanilla ISO might work (barely). But in a production data center? hpe custom image for esxi