Vmware setup guide

This password will be used for console login. Upgrade Configuration. The parameters of this sub-menu must be configured if you wish to upgrade the existing VMware vCenter Server. Skip configuring this category of parameters if you deploy a fresh vCenter instance. Networking Properties. Enter the domain name the same as used by ESXi host you have deployed.

In the current example, the default localdomain name is used. After deploying is complete, the VM is started automatically. The blue-gray management interface is similar to the yellow-gray ESXi management interface see the screenshot below.

You can check the IP configuration to make sure that network settings are configured correctly inside the VM. Check the network settings. After doing this, open the console on your physical machine and ping your vCenter Server IP address ping In the Getting Started screen press the Set up icon to configure this appliance as a new vCenter Server. Then the Stage 2 installation wizard is opened. Sometimes errors may occur during installation. This section can help you fix some of the most common errors you can expect to encounter.

Important: In case you set up a VMware lab at home and there is not a local DNS server in your network, you can get the error message at the stage 2 of deploying vCenter. If the supplied system name is an IP address, then it should be one of the valid IP address es in the system. This is not the same DNS server that is defined for connecting outside your local network to Internet, for example in this case.

You may need to re-deploy the OVA template after displaying this error. In the current VMware lab setup for home that is deployed for writing this blog post, the following host names are used for the hosts.

Of course, it is better to configure a fully-functioning DNS server in the local area network of a production environment for deploying VMware vSphere. The following strings are added in this case on the host machine:.

This error may occur after rebooting vCenter Server. This error can occur if some vCenter services have not started yet. Check to verify that the appropriate services are running by going to the web page for vCenter appliance management.

In this case, the following address should be used:. Select the needed service that is not running and hit Start or Restart. You may need to wait for a few minutes. Also check other services if necessary. When the necessary services are running, try to reconnect to your VMware vSphere Client. Enter the IP address of your vCenter Server into an address bar of your web browser. The introduction web page is loaded where you should select one of two options:.

Once you have logged in VMware vSphere client, you will see nothing in the vCenter inventory. First of all, you should add a new datacenter that is a logical container directory where your hosts and clusters are placed. Enter the datacenter name, for example Datacenter1. Add your ESXi host to the datacenter.

Right-click your datacenter name and hit Add Host in the context menu. ESXi01 is now added to the vCenter Server inventory. This will be a nested VM. Note: There are three methods of creating a new VM available. In this example Lubuntu 16 bit installer can be used because this Ubuntu-based Linux distribution is light-weight; this is important when your VMware home lab hardware resources are limited. Your VM has now been created.

Install Lubuntu Linux on a VM as usual. Open Terminal and check to verify if your Linux has Internet access with the following commands. Install VMware Tools from online repositories by using the following command:. The command must be executed with root privileges. Answer the questions provided by the console wizard of the VMware Tools installer to complete the installation.

Refresh the web page of the VMware vSphere client in your browser and you should see the VMware Tools version and running status. After that, you can learn how to connect a shared datastore to an ESXi host. VMware provides the vMotion feature for performing VM migration between hosts and datastores.

Storage vMotion is used when VM migrates from one storage to another. You can test this great enterprise-level feature in your own ESXi home lab. Try to ping your nested Linux VM during the migration process to check that there is no downtime. The third option is suitable in the case reproduced in the current VMware home lab.

Wait until the VM migration process is finished. Once the installation gets completed you will see the following dialogue box. Click on Finish. If you have purchased the product and have a license key, then you can click on License to enter the key. For the first time opening, if you have not entered the License key in step 7, then it will ask for a license key. You can go for the trial version which is available free for 15 to 30 days. Click on Continue. Make sure you have Admin rights for this in Windows.

At this stage, you will get the final installation message. This has been a guide on How to Install VMware?. You can also go through our other suggested articles to learn more —.

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Set up vCenter Server VM. Set deployment size. Select deployment and storage size. As we are going to use vCenter for less than 10 ESXi hosts and less than VMs, we select the Tiny deployment size and a default storage size. You can see a table with the configuration requirements for different deployment sizes. Select datastore.

Select the storage location for this vCenter Server that has enough free space to deploy the vCenter VM. We use datastore that was previously created in this tutorial to deploy vCenter 7. Read more about thick and thin provisioning in this blog post. Configure network settings. We use the following network settings for vCenter Server Appliance:. Ready to complete stage 1. Review your vCenter settings and hit Finish to finish stage 1. Once stage 1 of vCenter 7 installation is finished, you have to pass stage 2 to finish the installation process.

Hit Next to start stage 2 of vCenter Server setup. Select time synchronization settings and enable SSH access. SSO configuration. Select the Create a new SSO domain option.

Configure CEIP. Ready to complete. Review your settings and if everything is correct, hit Finish. Otherwise you will need to re-install vCenter from the beginning. VMware vCenter Server Appliance should start automatically after deployment has finished.

Press F2 and enter the credentials you set during vCenter installation to edit settings similarly to how you edited settings on ESXi.

You have to enter a username root by default and password to log in. The vCenter Server Management page allows you to configure basic settings such as status of services, time zone, firewall, network settings, and access settings. Go to Administration , click Edit, and edit the password expiration settings. You can disable password expiration to avoid issues after the password expires and the need to reset the password then.

Enter the IP address of your vCenter Server in a web browser. After connecting to vCenter and opening vSphere Client, a notification about the license is displayed.

You can use vCenter and ESXi hosts in a full-featured trial mode for a day period. A set of features from the vSphere 7 Enterprise Plus license is available during the evaluation period. If you have license keys, enter a key for vCenter and then enter a key for ESXi hosts. The keys for vCenter and ESXi are different.

Note that the licensing model for vSphere 7 was slightly changed in comparison with the vSphere 6 licensing model and serial numbers from vSphere 6 are not compatible with vSphere 7. First you have to create a datacenter. A datacenter is a logical container used to organize ESXi hosts, clusters and virtual machines. Right click the vCenter server Name and location. Hit Next at each step of the wizard to continue. Connection settings.

Enter a user name and password to access the ESXi host that must be added. Assign license.