Tech Journal 2 vCenter - SYSAD36/Tech-Journal---Cloud-Virtualization GitHub Wiki

  • Detailed documentation on how you successfully completed this weeks lab. Fellow SYS350 students should be able to reproduce the lab using your documentation. (10 Points)
  • Research and document an alternative method for completing this lab. An additional 1-2 bonus points will be awarded (depending on complexity) for successful implementation and documentation of your alternative method.

  1. Firstly, the mount onto Linux did not work for us. You will have to get a Windows VM to mount the ISO to. So step 1, get a windows VM on your Centos machine.

  2. Once you have mounted the ISO, located the installer.exe, it should be under a windows folder.

  3. For first couple answers when the installer starts just accept the defaults, until it gets to "Appliance Deployment Target," this where you fill out the IP of your ESXi host and username and password.

  4. "Set up appliance VM." Here you will give the VM a name and set a root password.

  5. On the "Configure Network Settings" section, this is where you assign a lot of the network info for you machine. Give it the IP address you want, followed by the same gateway and DNS servers that you gave the ESXi machine.

  6. Lastly you get to the screen where you overlook all of your data. Double check everything that you input and then wait for your deployment to happen. Next, once it has fully downloaded there are more setting we have to configure, click "continue."

  7. On the "Application Configuration screen," sync the time with the ESXi host, and continue to the SSO configuration.

  8. For the SSO domain name simply put yourname.local, set a password, put test in for the site name and continue through to the end and wait for the download. Uncheck the box to join VMware's customer experience program.

  9. You may have to reboot your ESXi host, but you should be able to travel to the IP of your vCenter and log in with the credentials you have set up.

  10. To add a cluster, go down to the section labeled cluster, and add one, naming it whatever you want. accept the default and go back to hosts.

  11. Add the ESXi ip as a host and add it to the cluster we just added through the drop down menu under location. It'll prompt you to sign in with your credentials for ESXi. After that simply accept the defaults and you should have successfully added our ESXi as a host in vCenter