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
  • 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