Installing vCenter

Link to download vcenter ISO file: https://cios.dhitechnical.com/VMware/VMware%20vSphere%208/VMware%20vCenter%208/

Mounting VmWare ISO to Xubuntu WAN

To begin, we are going to right-click on our xubuntu vm and change the CD/DVD to Datastore ISO file. We will be getting the VMWare ISO file from Datastore 2.

Select VMWare-VCSA-all-8.0.0-20519528.iso

From here, go into your xubuntu vm and mount the VMWare ISO.

From here, we are going into the VMWare VCSA and choosing vcsa-ui-installer.

Then going into lin64

Then select Installer, this will bring up the UI menu for Installing vCenter

Installing vCenter - Stage 1

Select Install and click next.

Accept terms of the license agreement and click next

Next, you will be entering the vCenter Server deployment target. We are gonna set this to our ESXi address (Alternatively, you can add your ESXi Host to your DNS A/PTR Records and use your superX.yourname.local as the name).

Confirm your certificate warning

Set the name for the VM to vcenter and the root password for the VM.

Select deployment size to what is below:

Set the datastore to the larger of the two and make sure Thin Disk Mode is selected for Thin Provisioning

Finally, we are going to configure the network similar to below:

• Network: 480-WAN
• IP Address: 10.0.17.3
• Subnet: /24
• Default Gateway: 10.0.17.2
• DNS: 10.0.17.4

Once done, click Finish and wait for Stage 1 of Deployment to finish. This will take about 5-10 minutes.

Installing vCenter - Stage 2

From here, it will go into Stage 2 of the Deployment. Click next to continue onto configuration.

Set the Time Synchronization and SSH Access to the NTP server pool.ntp.org and deactivated.

Log into your vCenter Server

For SSO Configuration, use the vsphere.local domain (we will change it to our domain later). And enter a password for SSO. Then click next

Uncheck Join the VMWare’s Customer Experience Improvement Program (CEIP). Then click next and Finish.

Once again, wait for the Install of Stage 2 Deployment to finish. This will take another few minutes.

Navigating to vCenter

Once done, navigate to your vcenter page shown:

Launch your vSphere Client and login with your [email protected] credentials made earlier

Creating Datacenter

Next, we are going to create the datacenter for our vcenter called 480-yourname

Right-click on vcenter.sean.local and select New Datacenter

Adding ESXi to vCenter

From here, we are going to add our ESXi Host as a Host of our Datacenter

Right-click on your new Datacenter and select Add Host

Set your IP Address to your ESXi Host

Add your ESXi credentials for username and password

Select Yes for Security Alert and next for Host Summary

Select next for Assign license (we will come back to licensing at a later time)

Select Disabled for Lockdown mode

Select your Datacenter for VM Location and then Finish. Your ESXi Host is added!

Recording

SYS480 Milestone 3 Recording