VMware, installing ESXi

I. Planning for VMware vsphere deployments

1. Select Server Platform

Query hardware Compatibility

2. Determine the storage architecture

Vsphere supports the following types of storage technologies:

1) Fibre channel-based storage Fibre Channel-based storage

2) FCoE Fiber Ethernet

3) iscsi-based Storage

4) Network File System (NFS)

5) VMware virtual SAN (Vsan )

3, the network planning

1) ESXi Management Network requires at least 1 NICs (one redundancy is strongly recommended)

2) Vmotion requires 1 NICs (it isstrongly recommended to add a redundancy)

3) If you use FT, you need at least 1 NICs

4) Storage Network (iSCSI or NFC) with a minimum of 1 NICs required

5) Virtual machine Network, need at least 2

A server's NIC needs to reach 6-12

Ii. Deployment of VMware ESXi

1. Install interactively

Installation CD installation for ESXi

2. Install by using scripts

3. Install using vsphere Auto Deploy

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VMware, installing ESXi