Enter the IP address of your vCenter Server into an address bar of your web browser. The introduction web page is loaded where you should select one of two options:. Once you have logged in VMware vSphere client, you will see nothing in the vCenter inventory.
First of all, you should add a new datacenter that is a logical container directory where your hosts and clusters are placed. Enter the datacenter name, for example Datacenter1. Add your ESXi host to the datacenter. Right-click your datacenter name and hit Add Host in the context menu. ESXi01 is now added to the vCenter Server inventory. This will be a nested VM. Note: There are three methods of creating a new VM available.
In this example Lubuntu 16 bit installer can be used because this Ubuntu-based Linux distribution is light-weight; this is important when your VMware home lab hardware resources are limited.
Your VM has now been created. Install Lubuntu Linux on a VM as usual. Open Terminal and check to verify if your Linux has Internet access with the following commands. Install VMware Tools from online repositories by using the following command:. The command must be executed with root privileges.
Answer the questions provided by the console wizard of the VMware Tools installer to complete the installation. Refresh the web page of the VMware vSphere client in your browser and you should see the VMware Tools version and running status.
After that, you can learn how to connect a shared datastore to an ESXi host. VMware provides the vMotion feature for performing VM migration between hosts and datastores. Storage vMotion is used when VM migrates from one storage to another. You can test this great enterprise-level feature in your own ESXi home lab. Try to ping your nested Linux VM during the migration process to check that there is no downtime.
The third option is suitable in the case reproduced in the current VMware home lab. Wait until the VM migration process is finished.
You can see a preview of the Lubuntu VM desktop where the console was opened in order to check the network and install VMware Tools before migration. The virtual machine running state is preserved. An ESXi host can access data on the block level similarly as it can access the directly attached storage. FreeNAS is a free distribution based on the FreeBSD operating system that provides a web interface for creating and managing network shares.
The installation process is straightforward — answer the questions provided by the installation wizard. Remember the root password you specify. Press 1 in the main menu and set a static IP address such as The web server interface link is displayed in the FreeNAS console interface. Enter the address of the FreeNAS web interface in your browser. Select the legacy web interface and enter the root username and the password you have specified during the FreeNAS installation. In the Navigator pane, go to Storage , then click the Adapters tab in the main part of the window.
You should see the existing storage adapters disk controllers. First you need to add a software iSCSI adapter. Note: As you recall, in the section about configuring ESXi hosts in the beginning of this blog post the host only network Select device. Select a device on which to create a new VMFS partition. Enter a name, for example, datastore-iscsi.
Then click Next. Select partitioning options. Click Next. Ready to complete. Check the datastore settings and select Finish to create the datastore. This datastore is displayed in the Datastores tab of the Storage section in the interface of VMware Host Client see the screenshot below.
You can use this datastore similarly as you use your directly attached datastore. After that, your vSphere configuration will be almost ready to deploy a cluster.
This blog post has demonstrated how to set up a VMware lab at home. Not all features and possibilities were explained above.
You can perform many more operations that may be used in the production environment, for example:. Before deploying VMware vSphere in the production environment, you should pay special attention to your VMs in the framework of data protection.
Hopefully, this blog post will help you learn more about the VMware vSphere, one of the best hardware virtualization solutions in the world. Using this complete guide, learn how to build VMware home lab and test the capabilities of vSphere in your VMware home lab and join the community of people who are optimizing their IT infrastructure with modern virtualization technologies. Learn all about VMware clustering to maximize your IT resources and ensure better performance. Accept default values for everything.
Partial output of the vmware-config. Which one do you want to bridge to vmnet0? Would you like to specify a different administrator? In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files?
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This is how the VMware Server web interface looks. The structure is similar to the old VMware Server 1 desktop application, so the usage of the web interface is pretty straightforward. I found the step-by-step guidance to be excellent. Sure saved my arse from a lot of grief! I would like to see these fanatics working for free? Actually these guys, that work with Linux, make pretty good money.
Where do you usually do your salary research? I guess you have old sources only. Guess not. No problem with the GA version. I use vmware server 2 since beta2, and I never had any license problem. You just need to upgrade after each new release and everything is fine. I have installed VMWare server on Ubuntu 8.
But, Virtualbox is hecka slow. At least with a Windows 98 client. Which is why I'm glad this guide is here. No, It's people like you that need to grow up. Cracks me up that people go to their job, complain that they don't make enough then complain that other proprietary company's shouldn't charge for their software.
Try working for free and see how you like it. In fact, thanks to vmware server, people who wants to work with open source OS but has to work with propietary OS like Windows can do it now without having to renounce to their loved free system.
I don't see the problem in using a propietary application if you have to run a propietary system anyway. I'm so tired of these howtos that show people how to bastardize their freedom-granting operating system with proprietary bits. Get a clue please. Guess what Imagine that I am using it to test out Debian 5. Some times you have to bite the bullet and understand that some companies will never ever create a linux version till there is a single linux distro they can say is Linux, just like another OS.
Thanks so much for these instructions. I was struggling to get this new VMware Server 2 working, but I followed the instructions here and it worked. Keep up the good work! And to those who say that how-to pages are wasted, just remember, everyone needs to learn how to do something. Just imagine if your parents had never taught you how to do a poo. I'm very glad that there are people like that,who can share their knowledge with others for nothing.
I think that they deserve to earn money for commercial support and adds hope they don't get to commercial tho. I'd like to thank You all for the big help You are giving others. Thanks to You Linux is getting more popular and stronger by the minute. If you don't want a root password like the Ubuntu default, you can run sudo vmware-config.
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