Baseline CentOS and First Boot - absentee-neptune/SYS-480 GitHub Wiki
Installing CentOS
Set-Up to Create
- Open datastore2-super8 and select Datastore Browser
- Making sure you are in the isos directory, select Upload to upload files
- Navigate to \foster-synology.cyber.local\480-SHARE\isos
- Upload the .iso files for CentOS 7
- Close the Datastore Browser when finished
Creating the VM
- Select the Virtual Machine tab on the side
- Select Create/Register VM
- Leave the default selection then press Next
- Select a name and guest OS
- Name the new VM
centOS
- Switch the Compatability to ESXi 6.5
- Select Linux for the Guest OS family
- Select CentOS (64-bit) for the Guest OS version
- Press Next
- Name the new VM
- Select
datastore2-super8
as the Storage, then press Next - Customize the Settings to match this:
Make sure to change the Disk Provisioning for the Hard Disks to Thin Provisioning
and Select CentOS for the Datastore ISO file - Review the configurations then press Finish
System Prepping the VM
- Start the VM
- Go through the standard installation
- On Software Select choose Infrastructure Server
- On Installation Destination choose the first Hard Drive (16GB)
- Turn on the Network
- Create an Admin user called
deployer
- Review then Reboot to log in as sudo user
- Update the VM
sudo yum -y update
- Then clean yum cache
sudo yum clean all
- Complete Sys-Prep with the following command:
sys-unconfig
- Once turned off, change CD Drive to
Client Device
- Create a Snapshot of the System called Base
- Then change the network adapter to 480-WAN