How to install VMWare vSphere 6.5 (web client) in ESXi Hypervisor and Workstation for Home Lab Use

[Music] hey what's going on YouTube and welcome to this video on how to install VMware vSphere 6.5 and add a VMware hypervisor or ESXi host to it and in this video I'm going to show you how to install it on a hypervisor like its intended to and then also how to install it directly onto the VMware Workstation for a lab environment now I don't know for sure but just from my observations I've been using ESXi since version 3.5 this is a snapshot I took from a video I uploaded at 6 and a half years ago run in 3.5 you know I had three and a half gigs of RAM and since that time with each incremental upgrade eventually got to the point where they would add new features but you would have to use vSphere in order to utilize it but as far as the core functionality for all the other lab type stuff I was doing that still work perfectly fine and it 100 percent free and that was the case all the way up until 6.0 now since 6.5 has come out they're actually starting to remove some of the features that normally are on there for free so to me it seems like they're trying to move into our direction for a lab and type environment it's more geared toward if you want a vSphere VMware certification of some kind not other vendors and what I mean by that if you look at this is the cheapest the VMware vSphere essential kit currently 560 US dollars and it still doesn't come with you know as far as the basic functionality on what ESXi does today up to version 6.0 it seems to have all of that but then it really jumps if you get the plus Edition and then even for a subscription-based 260 dollars a year with limited functionality and there's no perpetual licenses so point is vSphere has always been very expensive and I've always tried to avoid it as much as possible but it seems as though there now pushing us in that direction so for those of us that are using the sxi for everything else but a VMware certification might not be a bad idea to start getting more involved because we may not have a choice but with that said I'm going to be using the 60 day evaluation license so when you sign into VMware if you don't have an account you can create one for free then go to my VMware and then you can create start new evaluation and I actually already started one and then when you do that you can go to my evaluations and click on download trial now likewise this will also have any of the free software like in this case I downloaded the hypervisor which is ESXi the free version version six five oh eh so I went ahead and downloaded that and then for the vCenter server trial you have two options you've got Windows or Linux and I'm going to use the Linux because it's an appliance based opposed to installing that on top of normal Windows operating system so once you download that you can then right-click and mount the device and since I have ultra ISO as my default not the windows default that's why the windows the mount option isn't on there but you should be able to mount it or you could extract it and once you're in there go to the VCS a UI installer in this case go to windows 32 and then we can double click on the Installer executable now this is the method that we're going to use to install onto an existing hypervisor so as you may have seen I have these 2 hypervisors currently set up the 6.0 which is on a physical server this one is what's going to host the vSphere server and then we will add this one that's on vmware esxi 6.5 this is the one that we will add to the vSphere 4 manage centralized management so here we'll click on install and here we have a two-stage process and the first is just to deploy the initial appliance so it's going to have to go some basic information of course we have to agree to the License Agreement and you can choose to have an all embedded services controller or have the appliance and service controller separate in this case I'm going to have going to use the all-in-one just have everything on the same image and then for here we can use the fully qualified domain name or an IP address I do have my own DNS server but for this example I'll be using just IPS and not relying on DNS so in this case I'm going to connect to this server here which is 10 that 10 to 10 that 186 and provide the username and password that's already configured on that choose next we'll say yes and we can give it the whatever name we want let's call it V Center 6.5 we'll specify a root password and choose next and here we can choose our deployment size and it will show you the different requirements for that and we'll choose I'm going to just use the tiny here and choose next and where do we want to save it and I'm going to put this on the VM host file system or datastore and then what IP address we want to give it and for the system name if you give it an actual name then you really do need to have dns configured with pointer records because it's going to look up the IP see if it matches with the hostname vice versa so in this case i'm going to give the system name the same ip as what I'm going to planet so 10 10 10 183 and then the actual IP 10 10 10 183 and subnet and default gateway and DNS typical stage 1 stuff so here's your generic network configurations and we will click finish now at this point it is going to upload the appliance and all this is doing that let me switch gears and I will show you how to do this stage in the VMware Workstation so just where we were in your image there's this file here called VCS a I'm just going to copy this there's OVA file in here just going to copy this and move it to this where I have all my virtual machines so I'm just going to paste this in here and then when we double click on it it's going to ask us if we want to import import this so I'm going to change this to storage virtual machines I'll call this vCenter we'll go ahead and import this and again accept the agreement all right so here we have both methods currently at approximately the same stage the OVA is being both deployed via this Installer to the ESXi host and then this one is being uploaded locally in the VMware Workstation alright so the VMware Workstation is already done but there's one thing so remember when we filled out that form there's actually that was actually a front-end of some attributes that are being added to the vmx file so we have to do that manually in this case so if I go back and our this is our V Center location that we just set up if we go to our vmx file let me extend this so you can see it better let's see we got the vmx file here I'm going to right click on it and say open with notepad and then and now this will be in the description but this is the extra stuff we need to put in here so I'm going to put in the the password the ipv4 address the other one we made 183 so I make this one 180 for the subnet mech mask prefix static DNS server and Gateway and then the root password so I'm just going to copy this and at the bottom paste that in there hit file and save and we can close it out now at this point you can go ahead and make any necessary changes you can see you got all the default I'm going to use the network of that bridge network adapter just for this example but if you needed to make any changes here this is where you would do it and we'll hit OK and now at this point we can go ahead and power on the virtual machine which will will take a little while but once it's done then both of these will be in the same state and ready for Phase two and I will just mention here if you are doing the workstation method here you just got to be patient you'll see this photon machine login and you'll see some things blip you got a way to value you'll see a vCenter server page with the IP address and everything it just got to be patient with it alright and you can see over here virtual appliance but notice how it just says localhost here like so you just got to be patient there's still more scripts and stuff going on in the background so keep on waiting here all right so phase one is completed for the V squared appointment we sent to the hypervisor and notice here it says to proceed to stage two of the deployment process client setup click continue or you can go to this webpage which is just going to copy this for a second because what you'll see is that what we're going to do over here is go through the web page so if we wanted to we can go ahead and close this and come back to this to finish this the installation but just to show you both ways I'm going to finish the installation of this vCenter server through the appliance installer and then we'll configure the other one we have the web page but they look pretty much the same so I'm clicking continue and we'll choose next and I'm just going to use my local router for the NTP server and I don't need SSH enabled and the single sign-on domain I'm just going to keep the default the vSphere Local and then we'll set the single sign-on password and we'll say call the site name VM ESXi which is next and this is just the root password we set up earlier just login and then next again and I'm going to uncheck the join customer experience Improvement Program and choose next and here's all of our information it looks good there so I'll click finish and ok then we'll just wait for this to finish the install ok and just to show you this has now actually fully completed now you see how it's got the same HTTP IP and five four eight zero so while this is still setting up here let's go ahead and do that now normally I don't use Internet Explorer but it flash doesn't work in Chrome so you need you need that for the management all right so accept a certificate and then you can see here we got the vCenter appliance we'll click on that and just like we did before put in the root password we had set up in this case it's whatever we set right here and as you can see the prompts are pretty much identical this time it already has this information filled out except for the NTP because that's what we had in our template so we'll hit next and again we're going to use the same default vSphere domain name and we'll set the password and actually for the default site name we'll call it the am workstation its pre-populated but you actually have to type it the beast here that local if your news the default which is next and again we're not going to go in the sea and choose next and finish okay alright so the VMware Workstation version isn't it's not liking me not specifying the domain all right just so you guys know I am redeploying this one so we can setup the VMware again this isn't I guess I should have specified the reason you would want to do this is if you are doing a specific VMware certification where you would want your V Center separate from your ESXi host so for example here if you set up multiple ESXi host and then you set up your V Center separate not within another not nested within another ESXi host it just makes it convenient for management so you can for example shut down the hypervisors but not mess up and you know disconnect you from your V Center session so that's why you would have it in there but at one point I thought I had it working without DNS so I may have been missing something on this one but it should work with our standard deployment on the ESXi host ok and here we go says you have successfully set up this appliance so I'm just going to copy this here and put that into Internet Explorer well actually when I closed that it took me here automatically but this is still in chrome so I need a Internet Explorer and I recently reach this machine so you can use Firefox to anything that will support flash anyway so here we have our vCenter side sign-on and it's going to be this great administrator at and we set our single sign-on domain was V spear dot local and set up our password alright and here we go so now we have our vSphere web client interface and you can see we have pretty much just the 60 day licenses so it says we have 60 days left and the first thing we'll do is create a data center and in addition to like folders and using these things for organizations you can also use it to have for permission so certain users can have permissions to certain data centers to segregate that way but this one I'm just going to say home lab and then we can go ahead and add a host and I guess we can close this here so you can see right now we don't have anything applied sorry you've got page there so in this case we're going to add a host and in this case I'm going to add the host of the ESXi 6.5 we had earlier and you can see this is at the 10 10 10 105 you can see typed is automatically selected ESXi so 10 10 10 105 and we'll put in the username and password choose next yes and currently there's no virtual machines in there which is why this is blank choose next and then we can assign a license which all we have is our 60-day a license so we will apply that and this is where you can set it up where you want it to only be edited from the vSphere center or still be able to log in locally like this and by default it's disabled so you still would be able to modify that and that's I'm going to leave it and we only have the one data center for home lab so hit choose next and then finish all right now at this point this actually just popped up from this my other vSphere client session because it installed that new certificate and so that had changed you can see right here installing license reconfigure complete from VPX user because that's being managed by this now and you can see the hardware information based on the devices and then if we want we can even add the add another one the one that the vCenter is hosted on itself which was a 10 10 10 186 I'm actually going to sign out of the 1010 186 vSphere client for a moment here and you can see here there's one virtual machine already associated with this evaluation and again we'll choose finish okay so now you can see our V Center host on this particular server and I'm here if we wanted to you can go ahead and either deploy lvf templates create new virtual machines just like you did originally now and I'll show you I'm going to sign back into this 186 and you'll you'll see here that it's currently being managed by the vCenter server with IP address so let's just let me know that there's a centralized management of this device and then also one of the things I want to show you too and you can see if you want to configure the hardware specifics this is where you do it now the 105 if we come here and go to configure and storage for example and we want to add new storage notice there's no options for network file systems NFS you can see here they both show you know datastore one but if I add a new one now I can choose network file storage what version and do my mappings so that's why I was saying how what you used to be able to do because even in 6.0 this one here 6.0 if I do the same thing here go to configuration storage and add storage see I've got network file system as an option right here so as of 6-5 they've removed that and I can only assume they're going to take more stuff away as they move more toward this solution so all right and then just to finish up on getting the vCenter on VMware Workstation to work let's go back to that URL now so now just replace this one here so instead this is going to be 184 on 54 80 and we'll do our set up appliance next oh you know what I wonder if I didn't do that so I could say I was pretty sure I've done this before this doesn't work then I really will set up DNS already so this time host nine name matches up with IP I think that's what I missed earlier when I was clicking through that now I know these videos are different post editing but while I'm just sitting here waiting kind of got me thinking if you wanted to see what I would do if I had absolutely had to put in a DNS I can show you that real quick alright so I am on my home DNS server and I'm just going to create a new host and we'll call it VM test and slight not that low local and let me make it an IP that I don't have lookups for how about we'll say 172 1605 now see how it says create pointer record it will probably fail because I don't have that yes II couldn't create the associated pointer record so if you go to the reverse look up zones and say new zone and then see primary and imma say yeah for this domain ipv4 reverse lookup and it's 170 260 mm that's zero and this automatically does the reverse lookup because you actually have to type it like this if you're using bind for example but finish that so now that there's a reverse record now if we go back to this just reapply we'll put it on there and now if we absolutely needed to have the DNS now we could do the nslookup on the VM test and on the IP to meet those requirements but this should work as is alright and there we go so let's see now it says you have successfully set up the appliance and just like the other one we close this out see administrator at these feet here dot local all right and there we go now this is on the VMware Workstation edition so between the two hopefully that will give you enough to get started as far as getting your as design method or the tweaked VMware Workstation Edition for whatever uses you need for it and for me anyway I hope they have a more affordable lab type solution at some point but you know hey what can you do worst case you know if you got the 60 day evaluations so as always thanks for watching and again if you are aware of any more cost-effective and legal way to get licenses for this that'd be awesome otherwise thanks for watching and I will see you guys in the next video [Music]

Channel: wmx99

Views: 49,346

Keywords: Vmware, vsphere, hypervisor, virtual machine, esxi, home lab, dns configuration, windows2012, howto, install, tutorial, web client, training

Id: T8R2eMQVR-w

Length: 29min 2sec (1742 seconds)

Published: Wed May 31 2017