Thanks Dave, great info.
I just got my 2TB disk drive tonight and installed into the Dell T5500. I did the Rufus thing and created a bootable 6.7.0 usb. Booted on usb and installed to the new 2TB drive. Plugged in ethernet cable to the Bgw210 gateway (or router or what ever this is from ATT Dish) and got an IP from DHCP. Went to my laptop and went to IP address and brought up the beautiful exsi client for the first time. I see the datastore1 out there.
I created a new empty windows 2016 server VM called win2016-eval and just used the defaults of datastore1 and VM Network. Tomorrow I will download the windows server 2016 ISO evaluation from Microsoft site to my laptop. Hopefully I can use that. If there is a good link to help create/install my first Windows 2016 VM that would be great. So once I have the ISO to my laptop I'm not sure how to make it accessible to the esxi host. Do I somehow do that in the remote esxi client?
Thanks - Brad