The following procedure will guide you to download the ESXi offline bundle:
- Navigate to the VMware's download portal at https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads.
- At the downloads page, using the search field to look up ESXi 6.5; use the hyperlink from the search result to get to the ESXi 6.5 downloads page:
- Download VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle:
- The file downloaded will be a ZIP archive.