VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Installation

1, recently due to the various needs of the company, there are many projects need a separate server operating environment, it is not possible to install a physical machine for each project, if only two or three units can also, but too many, nearly 50 units, so we choose to do virtualization, like we used the KVM, but the total said no VMware ESXi easy to use, so we chose it, choose to do virtualization server is the Dell r720 24 core (logical CPU), 64G memory, disk 1T price large structure at about 30,000, well no more said, let's do it!

2. Download Vmware-vmvisor-installer-5.5.0-1331820.x86_64.iso (VMware esxi image file), Vmware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1281650.exe (Client tool), Unetbootin.zip (U-disk boot)

Open Unetbootin.zip, press action

After the completion of the U-disk start is ready

3, this step we came to the Dell r720 server, the server to operate,

At post, follow the prompts to select Ctrl+r to enter the configuration interface:

3.1 This is the user interface when the raid is not configured by the wide home

3.2 This is the interface when the raid is configured by the broad family

If it is configured, but we want to configure RAID10, then we need to 3.2 disk group:0, RAID 5 Select Delete this raid, after completion becomes 3.1,

4, then we start from 3.1 like down operation

Create raid

Select Raid

Press ok

Press ok

Formatting disk operations

When you are done, restart the system

VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Installation