Configure VMware ESXi Server 6.x – Post Install tasks.We have successfully installed our first VMware vCenter Server Appliance. The main page of the vCenter looks like this The link is and login with your local SSO administrator’s account (The account we’ve setup few steps earlier, it’s usually or the same domain you’ve setup earlier if you chose different one) Now, all you need to do is to open the vCenter web management console. The installation takes several minutes to complete It’s optional to join VMware’s customer experience program This is a local signle sign-on domain to allow you manage all your ESXi hosts from one signle place. This domain must be different from your AD domain not to cause confusion and issues later when trying to integrate your vCenter with Active Directory. In this step, you will have the option to select ‘NTP time settings’ and SSH access to manage the vCenter appliance with command line Now, that the first stage completed successfully, click continue to move on next step: appliance setup The stage 1 (Deployment phase) will start If you are using a FQDN, make sure to add an entry in your DNS to resolve the vCenter’s DNS name to its IP address Otherwise, the system will reserve 300Gb right-away for vCenter appilance.Įnter network details. Note: I enabled ‘Thin provisioning option’ so the disk space gets filled only when new data is stored. Select the target datastore where the virtual appliance will be installed The vCenter alone requires 10Gb of RAM and 300Gb of Hard Disk. I am going with the least resource consuming: Tiny deployment.Įven with a Tiny deployment option, I needed to provision my ESXi host with 14Gb of RAM and 400Gb of Hard Disk space. Select the deployment type that suits your needs. The reason why this warning pops-up, is that the ESXi certificate is self-signed (Not issued by a Global certificate authority like Verisign).Ĭhoose a name for your virtual appliance and set root (administrator) password. In this tutorial, I will be installing the vCenter as a virtual appliace on top of one of the ESXi hosts, I will go with the first optionĮnter the details of the ESXi host where this vCenter will be installed as a virtual machineĬlick ‘ Yes‘ on the SSL certificate warning. The installation is composed of two stages: Deployment and setup.
The wizard will walk you through step-by-step installation. This installer can be found under Win32 folderĬlick ‘ Install‘ option in the deployment wizard Therefore, the use of a third party tool like Daemon tools is required.
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You will need to create a free account with VMware to enjoy free trials on some products.Īfter downloading the VCSA 6.7 ISO file to a Windows 10 workstation or a Windows Server 2012 or above, right-click on the file and select ‘Mount’ You can download an ISO image of VMware vCenter Server Appliance 6.7 from VMware’s official site. All future releases will only be available as vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) which is the preferred deployment method of vCenter Server. This post gives a walk through on a clean installation of VCSA 6.7. It should be noted that vCenter 6.7 is the final release where Windows Modules will be available. The vCenter Server is a single centralized management console and can be deployed as a virtual appliance or Windows machine. VMware vCenter Server pools ESXi host resources to provide a feature set delivering high availability and fault tolerance to virtual machines.
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