Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5

[Music] hey what's going on everybody this is Rob Willis card info here and in this video I want to talk about installing VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5 if you're not familiar with the ESXi you should check out my previous video where I give a brief overview of both ESXi as well as V Center and I'll have links of that down below alright so jumping raid into things we got some physical hardware and we also have an ISO image it downloaded from VMware and I'll have links to that stuff down below but how do we install it and where do we install it to so the first thing I'll do is take the ISO image and install it or copy it over to a USB Drive and make a bootable USB Drive and I'll use roof is to do that and then I'll actually install it into the USB Drive on the right-hand side which we in the server and left in the server after the install is complete and I'll boot from that Drive so because the ESXi image is so small and it's just loaded into memory anyway I can just install it to the USB Drive rather than installing it to a hard drive and wasting a whole hard disk for that so if you go to around to the back of my server stack here you'll notice that I've actually done this with every single one of my servers and it's an awesome solution it works out really well it's super cheap I use eight gig drives here but that's just because I got a lot of them at one time I think I got like a demoon for super cheap but I've been doing this for a long time now and it's kind of the recommended preferred way to boot ESXi and now so that's just what I've been doing and it works great and it's super easy and cheap to do some servers like your dell poweredge --is will actually have an internal USB header specifically for this purpose alright so now I'm over on my Windows 10 machine and I've already gone ahead and download the ESXi image from VMware along with a tool called groupís and I'll have links to both of those down below but I'm going to use Rufus to create a bootable USB Drive that using the ESXi ISO that I downloaded and then I'm going to boot the server using that USB Drive and install ESXi on it so you'll notice that in this folder I have a few VMware images along with Rufus but this image on the bottom is the one I'm actually going to be using that's my ESXi image and I'm going to double click to open Rufus and give it a second here so you notice the first option on the Rufus dialog is the device and this is where you'll select the USB Drive that you want to install the ISO to and then the next thing is this little disk drive icon here and this is we're going to select the ISO image and it actually opened up to the photo or my images I'm going to go ahead and select the ESXi image and click open and then go ahead and click start and we immediately see a dialog warning that the ISO seems to have obsolete menu systems and it's going to click yes to replace those and then it gives us a warning that it's going to erase all data on the drive and I click OK to continue so that's it it's going to go ahead and install this ISO image on this USB Drive and make it bootable at the same time and then we can go ahead and boot that in the server in install ESXi so I'm truly go ahead and skip ahead a little bit to when it's complete and then we'll go from there alright so the process has completed it successfully wrote the ISO image to the USB Drive and it's ready to be used for boot so I'm going to go ahead and close this out and remove the USB Drive from this box and I'm going to plug it into my server and make sure that it's set as the USB Drive is set is the primary boot device on that server and then boot the ESXi image from there so let's go ahead and do that now all right so now I'm over on the server and it's getting ready to a booth the ESXi image and we see that it pops up here and I'm just going to go ahead and hit enter to continue on with the Installer and we see that it begins to launch the Installer so this is exactly what you would see on the output of your physical machine on the monitor connected to a physical machine but this is what you would see I'm actually going to be doing this over console access though but this parts going to take a little bit so I'm going to go ahead and skip ahead a little bit until it's fully booted up into the installer process alright so I think it's just about done booting and it is and so I'm just going to go ahead and hit enter to continue and then we see the EULA agreement and I'm going to hit f11 to accept and continue and it begins scanning for drives to install ESXi to so it looks like the installers found a few drives available that we can install ESXi to but I'm just going to go with the 8 gig drive that's going to be my USB Drive and that's the silver one that I showed in the beginning of the video and I'm going to select it and hit enter and then I will select USB fault for my keyboard layout and go ahead and set the root password for the ESXi host itself and we see in this case I get prompted that that the CPU and this hose may not be supported in future ESXi releases but I could just hit enter to continue on and then press f11 to confirm and begin the install so we'll go ahead and do that and this part is going to take a few moments so I'm going to skip ahead a little bit and we'll pick up from there so the install has now completed and it says that ESXi will operate an evaluation mode for 60 days now and then after that 60 days we have the license the product continue using it and then also gives you some tips on how to administer the server and next we have to remove the the installation video that we used to install you to excite from the server before rebooting so I'm going to go ahead and remove that now so this is going to be the black and red one that I used that created the bootable USB Drive with Rufus with I'm gonna remove that one from the server and leave the silver one in the server 8 and that one will remain in the server and always be used to a boot ESXi so I'm just going to go ahead and reboot the server now you all right so the server should be up in just a second here and there we go so it shows some basic information about the host itself of the CPUs the amount of memory and then I told you go download tools to manage this house from these addresses here and then we notice at the bottom that there's an f2 to customize the system and then f12 to shutdown and restart and that's it that's all you'll see so there's no GUI here but really all we're going to do is use the f2 to customize the system set the IP address and then manage the host remotely through the vSphere console so I'm just going to hit f2 and ask you to login with root and the password created during the install and here we see the very basic customization menu where we can configure the password various management network options the keyboard troubleshooting options system logs support information and resetting the system configuration let's take a look at the troubleshooting options real quick so notice this is where you can enable the ESXi shell as well as SSH if you want to remotely manage the server through SSH or if you need to access the shell at the console for now let's go ahead and configure the management Network so looking under network adapters we see the server only has one Ethernet adapter available but if you have multiples you can enable multiple mix for the management network and no load balance across them and then we go down to the ipv4 configuration and I'm going to do set a static ipv4 address and I'm going to set my static IP here along with the subnet mask in the default gateway and I'm just going to press ENTER to save my changes and then we go to the ipv6 and I'm actually just going to disable the ipv6 configuration altogether dns configured them to leave my default config there and that's it so I'm going to go ahead and hit escape to save my changes and exit back up since since I disabled ipv6 I actually need to reboot the host I'm going to go ahead and do that now and when the host comes back up it should have the new static IP address that I set all right to the up and we see that our IP address is successfully taken and that's it so we really won't do anything else with the server the console from this point on we'll manage the server entirely from the web-based console so let's go ahead and do that now alright so I'm back on my Windows 10 machine and I'm on the same network as the ESXi host so I'm going to go ahead and pull up my web browser and when I type in the IP address that i sat on the ESXi host which is 192 168 2.51 and i see that i'm created with the es certificate warning here I'm just going to add the exception to get around that and it's because it's a self-signed certificate and that's it it takes us to the ESXi login page and it takes a second to load here but I'm just going to login with the username root and the password that was set during the ESXi install process and that's it then walks us into the the web console so the first page we see gives us basic information about the host itself the CPU the memory the storage the version of ESXi that we're running the time all of that kind of stuff along with some basic actions at the top there where we can get D Center create and register VM shut the host down reboot it refresh and then our little actions menu there with some additional action items that we can take against the host and then you'll notice in addition to these options there's also a menu on the left-hand side as well so if we click on manage this will give us all of the configuration and management for the ESXi host itself and you'll notice there's quite a few options to go through here the system tab has the Advanced Settings and the auto start features hardware provides various information about the host hardware the licensing we can add add or assign new licenses there packages that are installed one the ESXi host itself services better running we can start and stop them there as well and along with security and users and you can create your users assign new roles and all that kind of stuff there and then the next option down is the monitoring as you can see it's got the fancy graphs for the CPU memory monitoring and all that kind of stuff along with Hardware monitoring events and tax bills that are going on with the ESXi host and their statuses and all that kind of stuff at the next option down is the virtual machines and this is probably where you'll be spending the majority of your time this is where you'll create virtual machines and monitor and could get console access all that kind of stuff the next option down is the storage and this is where you'll see existing data stores that are attached to the host as well as where you'll go to add new ones and then the last option on the left is going to be the virtual networking and this is very going to go to configure and adjust all things virtual networking for this single host in particular you've got your port group options where you can add new port groups virtual switches there's the physical NICs in their configuration the vmkernel mix there's options for the tcp/ip stack firewall rules and all of that kind of stuff there's a ton of options under just the networking alone but again this is going to be for this single host so let's go back to the storage and add some additional local data stores I'm going to click on new data store and then I want to create a new VMFS data store so I'm to leave that selected and click Next and then you'll see I actually have two local drives available to me a hundred gig and a 40 gig so I'm just going to leave the first one selected and I'm just going to type in 100 gig - local for that site so that I know it's 100 gig of locally attached storage and it's going to click Next and I'm going to use the full disk for this so I'm just going to leave the default and click Next and it would go ahead and click finish and it pops up and says the entire disk is about to be wiped and my sure that I want to do this and I'm just going to click yes to continue and now once that data store is successfully added which it is now I'm going to go ahead and add an additional datastore to add that additional 40 gig that we saw earlier and I'm just going to follow the exact same steps all right so that's it we've now added two additional data stores to our ESXi host and now we can upload ISO images create virtual machines and do all kind of stuff so the first thing I want to do is upload an ISO image of an operating system so I can use it to boot my virtual machine from I'm going to go to my storage and click on the 40 gig local storage and click on the datastore browser and then here you'll notice that you can upload and download files from the datastore so I'm just going to click on upload and click my local downloads folder where I've already downloaded in the bunchy 16 image and then we're going to select it and click open and that's it it begins uploading the ISO image and you can see the progress in the top right of the window here but I'm just going to go ahead and click close and the job will drop to the background and continue running but we can see the progress and the recent task bar down here at the bottom and that's it so basically it's just going to continue the upload that file in the background there but once the file is uploaded we can go then go ahead and use it to a boot virtual machines so I'm just going to go ahead and skip ahead a little bit to whenever the file is completed and we'll go from there so this download should be done any second now and yep there it goes so basically at this point now that the ISO image is uploaded we can then go in create a virtual machine and attach to the ISO to the cd-rom and then boot it so let's go ahead and click on virtual machines and I'm going to create register VM and I'm going to create a new virtual machine and click Next and then here it SS to name the virtual machine and this is the name that we'll see in the ESXi web console but I'm going to name it a bunty one and for compatibility I'll just go with the highest level ESXi 6 5 for my guest OS family I'm gonna pick Linux and go at guest OS version I'm going to do a bug too with a 64-bit and click Next and then it asked me to select the storage that I want to create this virtual machine on so I'll just go with that 40 gig local and click Next and then here we're going to customize the settings for the virtual machine so this is where you'll find the V CPU settings the memory of the hard disk the network adapters what network is actually on and all that kind of stuff so you can see that you can adjust the BCP use it'll be limited by how many cords are on the actual physical host machine so in this case I can go up to six but you can adjust the memory up or down change the hard disk size attach additional network controllers or network adapters and in this case I'm going to change the DVD ROM or DVD drive to a datastore iso file simply go to that 40 gig local drive and our data store and I'm going to select Li a bunch of image that we just uploaded a little bit earlier and I'll make sure that that DVD drive is connected and that's it and so I'm going to go ahead a click Next so now whenever I power on this virtual machine it should boot that ISO image so we review the settings that are all correct and that's it I'm going to go ahead and hit finish and it goes and creates the virtual machine so now that the VM has been created let's go ahead and get console access by right-clicking on it and you can either download the VMRC the remote client or if you already have you can go ahead and launch the console and it's going to click remember my choice and open the link and it should actually open in the VMware remote console and then once we get the console access we can go ahead and power the virtual machine on so it's going to always trust the certificate and connect anyway and that's it let's go ahead and power this bad boy on so I just right click power and power on and we shoot the virtual machine boot and it starts loading value so image so now we can go ahead and install Ubuntu Linux on this virtual machine once the OS is installed the virtual machine works just like a physical machine on the network it will have its own IP you'll have to ssh into manage it you can still get console access through the vmware console like this but in a click its own complete entity on the network alright so now that we got that out of the way let's go ahead and power off the virtual machine so I'm just going to right click power power off and it will ask me to confirm yes and it just immediately powers off the virtual machine so now let's go ahead and right-click and you see what options are available to us so obviously we have the power settings the guest options that's just the shutdown and install VMware tools the snapshots so you could roll the virtual machine forward and back into I'm we already saw the console options you cannot you can export the virtual machine you can edit the settings unregister it delete it from the hypervisor let's go ahead and take a look at the edit settings so you should recognize these items from earlier but we can actually add additional hard disk and network adapters and other devices here along with adjusting the CPU in the memory and the virtual machine will most likely have to be offered those too there are some hot add options that you can enable but they can be kind of risky the data store ISO image that we mounted earlier to the DVD drive we can change that to another ISO image or we could just disconnect it all together the video card you can adjust all those settings there and that's it so I'm just go ahead and cancel all that and not save any changes but just so you know that's where you would go to change the virtual machine settings after the virtual machines been created so you may have noticed whenever I right clicked that I didn't have the option to clone a virtual machine and that's because you need be Center to be able to do that I also don't have any of the live migration or migration at all features I can't create templates I can't do distributed switches any of those kind of things so well ESXi is great for running you know stand-alone hypervisors it may be a few of them there's no way to centrally manage them you have to log into each one individually and manage the virtual machines that are located on that host and only that host there are some ways to copy or clone virtual machines without vCenter but most of them are they either aren't the easiest way to do it or require third-party tools and they will most likely require the virtual machine to be powered off anyway so if you really want to get into cloning and live migration and all that kind of stuff that's where you really need to look into bringing vCenter into the environment all in all though vSphere ESXi is a great hypervisor especially in version 6.5 and it's definitely the best version yet both vSphere ESXi and vCenter are available for free for download from VMware comm and they both install an evaluation mode for 60 days so it's really easy to get copies of it from vmware install it in your environment and get a whole VM or lap going and pretty easily and for free and for 60 days you can kinda get a lot done and I really play found and explore the features and then of course after those 60 days you either have to license it which you can get a free license or ESXi from VMware it's pretty flexible and it's just the standalone license for a single ESXi host but you know you can do all the things that a single ESXi host is limited to but it still makes ESXi pretty useful to keep around with that license in a lab environment and then vCenter obviously is pretty expensive and you'll have to you know look into how you'll budget that into your IT department and all of those fun things right you know but yeah so there is one last thing I want to mention and that is that you still can connect with the old beasts or six fat client or the c-sharp client so let me just go ahead and done with that real quick and then we'll wrap things up all right so here she goes the good old VMware vSphere client via C sharp or fat client so this is the newest one I could find this was version six I believe but I type in the IP address of my ESXi 6 five host and my username and password and it'll go ahead and mock me on so it does work when you connect directly to ESXi host but it does not look like it works whenever you connect to V Center 6.5 but you see that it successfully logs me on and it looks like the good old bat client and I think that's where I'm going to wrap this one up next time I'll cover installing V Center into the environment and in deploying it as the vCenter server appliance on top of the knee is X I host and then adding a new sex I host into that v centers inventory in cloning and migrating and all of that kind of fun stuff I hope you guys found this video informative or ESXi up and running in your own lab environments and playing around with it and also play with V Center even if it's only the trial but as always I thank you for watching and I'll see you next time

Channel: Rob Willis

Views: 233,160

Rating: 4.9414635 out of 5

Keywords: VMware, vSphere, ESXi, vCenter, 6.5, VM, Virtual Machine, Web Console, Install, How to, 1080p

Id: upci95_IQYM

Length: 20min 13sec (1213 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 26 2017