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VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) New Implementation on New Physical Hardware document
Include New Install, Create a New Virtual Machine and Upgrade.
Current Hardware Specification:
CPU: Intel(R)Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
RAM: 31.93 GB
HDD: 1 TB
ESXi Version: 7.0.0-15843807
High Level Steps
1. Register and open a new account on VMware Website?
2. Download Vsphere Hypervisor ( ESXi ) from VMware Website?
3. How to create bootable ESXI USB Pendrive through Rufus tool?
4. How to install fresh new ESXI through bootable pen drive?
5. How to create a new VM and allocate Operating System ISO Image?
6. How to upgrade Existing ESXi from 7.0.0 to 7.0.2 Version?
Register and open a new account on VMware Website
[Link]
On top Right side click on Register
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Fill all the details as shown above and click on Sign Up which is highlighted in Yellow.
Go to your email and click on activate the link and complete registration Process.
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7. Login Your account and download the require software ISO Image manually.
Click on All Download round in red color in above pic
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Click on VMware vSphere -Download Products
Select VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0U2 and click on GO TO DOWNLOADS
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Select the require version as shown above and click on Download Now or click on Download Trial and download the ISO
Image.
Click on Manually Download
8. Download Enterprise - VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 7.0U2 ESXi ISO Image.
[Link]
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Download Rufus from below URL to create VMware ESXi Bootable Pen Drive
[Link]
Connect 4 GB Pen Drive to your PC - Double click Rufus software and click yes
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Select the downloaded VM Ware Sphere ESXi ISO Image and click on open
Select the Pen drive, and specify the ESXi ISO image and click on START. After finishing connect your pen drive on the Server
where exactly you want to Install
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Turn On Target Server and set the boot sequence in BIOS as first Bootable USB Drive or On Main Screen Click on F10
Press F10 to set the boot Sequence as USB ESXi Bootable Pen Drive
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Select the USB Pen drive and press Enter
Select first option ESXi – 7.0 xx Standard Installer
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It will initialize the hardware so please wait for further steps to be loaded
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Press F11 to continue and accept the License agreement
Press Enter to continue
Press Enter
Select US Default and press Enter
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Press F11 to Install
Enter to Continue
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Remove the Pen drive from the Server and Press Enter to reboot
Main Welcome Screen – Press F2 to set the static IP Manually and change hostname
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Select configure Management Network and press Enter
Enter the root password
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Specify the IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway and press Enter
Pres Esc and click on Y to save and exit
Press F11 to Restart the Server for permanent configuration and update to the server
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Successfully ESXi Installation Completed. Now go to your Personal PC and open above URL to access the ESXI Server
Note: Make sure firewall is off and add the Server IP Address in Antivirus if any. In my Scenario I have Kaspersky Internet
Total Security Antivirus program in my personal PC
Note: Make sure your server is connected in a network and your personal PC must be in the same network.
After the Installation you will find 4 mount points. First Mount point /vmfs/volumes/datastore1 is the main point where all
the created VM’S files are stored and where as other mount points are related to ESXi OS
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Specify the root user and password and click on Logi in
[Link]
Now Open the Google Chrome Browser the run this above URL to access in ESXi Server
Click on Proceed
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Successfully we have installed the VMWare ESXi – Now we need to create the New VM’S as per the requirement
Enable the SSH so that we can login the server from Putty.
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Apply the License
As you can see successfully license is applied
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Let us learn How to Build a new Virtual Machine
Note: Before creating a new VM we need to Move the require OS ISO Image file to ESXI Server. In my scenario I
will be using WINSCP software to move the Operating System Linux SLES 15 SP2 ISO Image.
Login to your ESXI Server with root user and move the files in ESXI Server
Note: First create a folder in /vmfs/volumes and then move the ISO Image file in that folder
/vmfs/volumes
After moving successfully go and check on the OS Level
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Steps for creating a new Virtual Machine
Specify the Name, OS Family and Guest OS version
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Don’t do any changes simply click next, Continue with default option
Specify the resources capacities as per your requirement
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Click on Finish, now we need to specify and set the VM to read the SLES 15 SP2 OS Image to the VM
Select the new created VM and right click and go to edit Setting
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Click on Power On to start the VM and as we have setup a CD Drive a source as ISO Image file i.e. SLES 15 SP2.
Once after turning on it will automatically boot the CD and it starts the Operating System Installation wizard i.e SLES 15 SP 2.
Follow the Linux Installation Steps.
Let us learn now how to Upgrade the existing ESXI Version
from 7.0.0-15843807 to 7.0U2-17630552
Turn On the Target Server and set the boot sequence in BIOS as first Bootable USB Drive or On Main Screen Click on F10 to
boot the system with USB Pendrive
Press F10 to set the boot Sequence as USB ESXi Bootable Pen Drive
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Press Enter to Continue
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Press Enter to continue
Select first option and Press Enter
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Press Enter to Continue
Press F11 to Upgrade
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Press Enter to Reboot
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Click on help and then click on about to check the version
Mashallah Successfully ESXi upgraded to 7.02
