I got a new toy. You want
to see it here? It is. It's a server, the big boy to make room desk. I think I just crushed something.
This is my new Dell power edge, our 17 rack Mount server for my lab. Wow. Now this bad boy, isn't new. I mean,
it's new to me, but I bought it used now. Why did I do this? Why did
I buy this old server? Well, this is what you want to do. When
you want to beef up your home lab, you'll buy an awesome, massive, amazing server that enterprises
have in their data centers. But we buy the older ones. They're
cheaper, but they still run great. Actually already have two in my lab.
And I wanted one more because why not? So in this video, I'm going to show you how to set
up the home lab servers like this, and we're gonna install the latest
and greatest VMware on this bad boy, ESX or vSphere seven completely
free. And it's amazing. And it's what enterprise it
departments actually use. So you're gaining valuable skills.
That's the whole big idea, right? That's why we're here doing this also
to run flux and all the other fun stuff, because you can do all of that here.
Hey Chuck, from the future here, it turns out you can not install
vSphere seven on old hardware, like the R seven 10. What? The junk
VMware, why are you doing this man? Come on. So we're stuck with VMware
or vSphere six.seven or ESI six.seven, which is fine. It's what I have currently
installed in my other old servers. So we're going to be proceeding
with VAT. That is dumb. Isn't it? That's pretty dumb. I spent a
little bit trying to figure it out, but hardware just not
fricking support it's anyways. That's why you see a bunch of hardware
in the background because I had to figure it out and you're welcome. Anyways.
Let's continue. Now you can do this too. It's a great way to learn
enterprise 80 skills. You can pick up a server like this
for not too bad. A check this out. I got my server from Amazon. Here's
the exact one I got. It's awesome. If you want to check it out, link below only $645 and you could
actually find them cheaper, like on eBay. Let's check it out. Yeah.
Here's the one for 360 4, 1 10. It's probably gutted a bit. Yeah,
no HDD there. 201 26. Again, you can buy enterprise it hardware and
put this in your house and it's not too expensive. And shout out to Vesey
shoes for sponsoring this video. We'll talk more about them here in
a bit. Okay. Let's start doing this, but first, what do you need? Well,
the first one's kind of obvious. You need some sort of server now. Sure. You can use an old laptop or an old
desktop PC. You have laying around, but be careful not all hardware
is supported by VMware. I ran into this when I was trying
to install it on my laptop. So I chose proxy box
instead. So be careful. But if you do go out and buy
some old enterprise hardware, that should work just fine. That's why
I do recommend old enterprise hardware. Now, once you have a server, the
next few things are smooth sailing. You do need a USB flash drive.
At least eight gigabytes. You'll need a free VM-ware account, which we'll walk through
here in just a moment. And you're going to need some
coffee, espresso, French, press pour over. I don't care. You
just need some network. chuck.coffee. Oh, almost forgot. I've
got um, oh, here it is. I'm going to install a 10 gig
ethernet NIC. Because why not? It's good. That's over here.
And the pop this bad boy open. Oh yeah. And slide this 10 gig NIC in
there. If you want to check it out, link below. I got it off
Amazon. Amazon's awesome. And bam, that was super fast and easy and oh, almost forgot. One last thing you'll
need is a monitor. That's my monitor. I know. And it keyboard. So you can see what you're doing when
you actually install VMware. Yeah. That's the thing. That's all
we need. Yeah. That's it. So here on VM-ware if you don't already
have an account and go create one, I already have one. I'm gonna get
logged in real quick. And boom. Have you scroll down just a bit. First, we get a register for this product for
ESI six.seven, almost at seven. No, just six.seven because VMware they're
being kind of jerks. Anyways, register. I got to tell them all about
myself, things they already know. And two you're actually okay. Captioning
compared to most looking at you, CloudFlare and sign up. And now we have a pretty licensed key for
VM-ware ESI, six.seven, which is fine. I mean, I don't want to be sphere
seven. That's cool. But this works too. So now all that's left to do is
download some stuff. It's right here. We're going to mainly download the latest
and greatest. So click on manually. Download mine is fricking fast. I was
going to go and do it now. It's right. There's an ISO to a USB flash drive
that we can use to install and tourist server we'll need a tool. And the tool I'm gonna use is
called a Rufus is what I always use. If you have a Mac or Linux
machine, there are other tools. I'll link those below
anyways. Rubis with Rufus. Makes sure we have the right device
selected. I do. And then select your boot, ISO, whatever we're gonna
use to write to that thing. Mine is going to not be seven because
they're jerks. I'm gonna use six.seven. Okay. Make sure your partition scheme
is MBR. Make sure it's bios or UFE, which is the only option I
have. That's all we need folks. I'm going to click on
start and yeah, I know. They'll scare me with that kind of stuff. I know it's going right over
everything. We're cool. Let it relax. Let it do its thing. Coffee break.
If you want my coffee's cold. So I'm not going to do that. And it's much later in the day now
because I had to sneak and go through all this crap anyways. Do you feel
my pain a little bit? Yeah. Done. Okay. Now we're going
to grab our USB drive. Got it. Okay. Now we need to plug it into our
server. I want to do that right now. Just anywhere you have a USB port
in the back of it, right? Okay. About the power Dom, but first and
need my monitor and my keyboard just plugged in and
outside type the monitor crap. Okay. I've got a
problem. These old servers, they have VGA connections, but not HTMI.
And I don't have a fricking VGA cable. Luckily I've got my Bessie shoes so I
can run to the store real quick and grab some VGA cable. Bessie is
a comfortable, stylish, everyday sneaker that you
can wear even in the winter. Now these things are
cool. Like climate cool. They're made from something
called diamond techs, which keeps you cool in the summer because
summer's happening right now in warm in the winter. And it's the true everyday sneaker for
when you forget stuff that you need for your projects, like a cable like I did, and they are sustainably made less
material waste with the knitting process, less waterways and no animal
byproducts. They are vegan. Just don't eat them crap.
There's a puddle. It's okay. PESI shoes are waterproof. 100%.
Let me say it again. Waterproof, not water resistant. So you can walk
in the snow. When it's actually winter, they are super easy to
clean. Just rinse with water. You can wear them right away or
throw them in the washing machine. They'll dry in a day. So if you're looking for a shoe that
makes you look sexy at the data center, or if you're just sitting at home
hacking, this is the one for you. Besties are my go-to shoe right by my
door. So check them out. Link below. You'd like Chuck, you get $25
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this ad was not planned. I really did have to run to the store
and I totally forgot about this cable. It just kind of played in nicely. Can I? All right. VGA plugged in now.
Let's power this bad boy up in. Nice and quiet. Huh?
So quiet. Nice. Serene. Sounds like a jet plane. All right.
Haven't written a plane in a while. Here we go. We're pretend we're
in a plane taking off. Oh, this is nice. Fiji Harris. Oh, we're almost there. We're
landing. Here we go. Oh yeah. All right. First thing I'm going
to do real quick is make sure my raid, the configuration is good.
So I'm going to go into F 10 system services and I'm going to
make sure my rates stuff is good. I don't know what this shipped with.
I'm going to change it up. Okay. This applies to Dell servers, only an old ones at that to go ahead
and configure your rate to make sure everything's golden. Good scroll down to hardware configuration tab over to configuration wizards. You're a wizard Harry and go to raid
configuration. Now no. During the boot up, you can do a control arm to
get to the right configuration. I was hitting that sucker and it
wasn't working. I don't know why. Go ahead and hit. Enter to go
next. Get my perks. 7, 8, 700. That's my rate controller. I'm
good. Express is good for the stuff. And then choose your rate
configuration. I'm going to do Ray five. I don't want a hot spare tab to
go to next and I will hit enter to finish. Yes, I do want to continue Dawn, I think. Yes. Okay, cool. And then just get back and then
tab over and exit and reboot. And now we wait once more. Oh yeah. Yes. Now at this point, my Dell server, I could hit F 11 to go into the Bootman
USA boot to that USB flash drive. I know that for mine. It's just
going to boot into it automatically. So if you do run into an issue where
it doesn't boot into your stuff automatically, then go to your
bios venue and do that anyways. Mine's going to do it.
See you in a sec. Okay. The ESI installer is launching and it's
going to go through and just check some things. We're going to go. Yep. Let's continue at 11
except everything. Blindly. It's going to scan devices and
hopefully everything is compatible. Fingers crossed. Oh, VMware,
why are you me off? Show enough. It's on my rate controller.
Everything's beautiful. Enter to install ESX on that bad boy. Pick a keyboard stuff and then putting
your root password. Just make it up, enter to continue. And then it tells me
something I wish you would have told me. Hours ago, future releases will
support my CPU and crap. So yeah, whatever dude answer. And then
finally hit F 11 to install. Boom. Let's do this coffee break.
If you're still drinking coffee, I'm done. And installation
is complete. Oh God VMware. You're testing me, testing me. Okay. So remove the installation
media USB drive removed, and then hit the enter key to reboot. And now we wait again. It's a
lot of waiting stuff. So man, make sure you got something to do,
like watch my next video. Yeah, go ahead and do that man. This
thing is this thing's hot. Yeah. Yeah. Wait. Okay. So it's booting
up now. VM-ware ESI is loading. The hypervisor and stuff is
happening. Magic is happening. Let's watch and it's fully booted. Okay. Sorry.
I'm a little tired at this point. I want to go ahead and go to the
IP address that it pulled via DHCP. I'll show you how to set that sucker
static here in a moment. Actually, let's go ahead and do that real quick. What about wasting time for
F two to customize crap? It's going to make you login with the
root password. You just set. Remember it. And then when those gone over
to configure management network, which is just down there, hit enter,
scroll to IPB four configuration it's space bar on set static. There we go. And then enter your IP address information
once you're good at enter once more and escape to X, Hey, he has to apply
changes when you start your network. Cause you just changed
stuff and you're golden. So we should be able to go out
through a web browser right now. Let's try it out. Fingers fricking
cross people 10, seven.one dot 94. Oh, here we go. Proceed
is unsafe. I don't care. And that's what we want to see right here. Long game with the roots and
the password you just said just smells so good for slept.
Feed don't work for once. Okay, cool. We're vulnerable to
some kind of attack, whatever. Just don't expose your
server to the internet. Oh, currently we're in evaluation
mode. Let's change that. Let's go grab our license.
Let's snag my license. Just going to copy that. They're right
here on the left and go to manage. And then right here, licensing, click on a sign license and then
enter that delicious license key. He just got check license or good. And now assign it. Whoo. Yes. Okay. We're good. So now I
officially have a license. VMware. He is excited. Six dot set on which?
Yeah, I know it's not seven dot. Oh, but it's still great. I've been using
it for years and it's pretty lit. I love it. Over here on storage, like
click on that. I have one data store here, which the data store is real story. Your virtual machines where you'll create
your virtual machines, machine disks. It's a real store. Everything for now because this is the
only one I have noticed is almost four terabytes. That's the location
I installed ESI on. And yeah, at this point you can go about
creating a virtual machine. Now I'll walk you through real
quick, how to create your first one. So you're not lost anyways.
If I go to virtual machines, nothing here is so lonely. So
dark and scary. Let's click on, create or register AVN. Now to do this, we obviously will need an ISO like
Ubuntu or Cali Linux or anything. So I'll make sure I have
create new virtual machine,
uh, selected click on next, um, name it. Let me make sure I
have an ISO somewhere. Oh cool. How do we Bluetooth 18. Awesome. So
guests, family, Linux. It's going to be, oh Boone 2 64 bit next. Yes. That's my
data store. And then choose your stuff. I'm going to throw two virtual. CPU's
at it. Two gigs of memory, 2048. And then the most important part. I have to make sure that this virtual
machine will boot to a CD drive to load it to us. So we're going to change the host
device here to an ISO. You download. So change that to data store ISO file.
That's going to go to the data store. I just showed you right now. I've
got nothing here. So it real quick. I like to do this. I'm going to
create a directory to name it ISOs or the directory. This is where I'm going to keep mine
ISOs and make sure I select that. And I'm going to go ahead
and upload when I have here, there he is cooking right here.
We'll give it a sec. It is uploaded. I will select it. Oh wait. Yes,
I will select it. There we go. Select and make sure we have the checkbox
here connected at power on because you want to have to connect
it at the power of the on, I think that's about all we have to
do here. I'll make the hard disk, like I don't know, 50 gigs just
for funsies. We can always, you can always change
that later on click next. And that's the first virtual machine
click on finish and that bad boys cooking. I think actually that bad boy has done. And then there he is just
sitting there doing nothing. We got to boot him up first. So let's
go ahead and click on the jump in. And I'll like a only penguin. We just
hit that power button right there. The power on appear, just tickled his
belly to, he goes belly. That was weird. It's going to boot up and give you a
little window and you gonna be able to proceed to install your Linux distro.
Now I'm not gonna make you wait, go ahead and fast forward to the
future. And it's done installed. I'm going to log into it just to prove
it to you that this is the TD Linux server on the wait wrong username. Boom. This is create a
virtual machine. So anyways, we installed an enterprise hypervisor
on an old enterprise hardware that we bought off of Amazon. Or
maybe eBay. Now, why do this again? It's great practice to learn actual
enterprise it skills. Secondly, it's awesome for your home lab. Seriously, a ton of stuff I run and feature in my
videos runs off of servers like this. Actually I haven't [inaudible] that other
one and our seven 20 and I just throw a bunch of virtual machines
running all kinds of stuff. Sure. They're not the fastest machines
in the world. No, they're not, but I'm not gaming on these bad boys. They're just running
some stuff in my house. You don't need something crazy
to run Docker containers, a couple domain controllers. I mean, come on and what you can learn on these
things. It's insane. I mean, come on. I mean, just from, from
setting up enterprise, it stuff like actual stuff that produces
an infrastructure and a company to just doing hacky labs. This
is awesome. So anyways, let me know if this helps you out in
the comments below this took longer than I expected, just because of dumb VMware and
their requirements for VM-ware seven. It was supposed to be vSphere stuff
it's supposed to be really cool. It's still trunk pretty cool. I mean
$6. Seven is still cool. Anyways, I'm still better. And again,
massive shout out to Vesey, footwear for sponsoring this video and
giving us shoes that can help us go get stuff when we need stuff like VGA
cables on the old servers. Yeah. Yeah. That's about all I got today. Guys.
I will catch you all next time. I'm going to install some
more virtual machines. Oh, uh, just while you're still
here watching the video, I'm looking at my 10 gig NIC over here. Look at that 10,000 Davids per second. It's going to be putting that to
use anyways. That's all I got.
