ESXI 5.5 Build and VMware9.0 virtual machine porting

As a manager, software needs a lot of tools to assist in the management of Team and project, code and so on, for the independence between the tools, so there are 4 servers dedicated to the truth, each with a number of virtual machines configured to achieve a separate service. Then, the server's startup and maintenance is a very headache, because the company had a fire before, so require the server shut down every day, although all can be automated, but the virtual machine can not be automatically opened.

Later discovered that Exsi 5.5 began to build this thing, the final effect is very good, the implementation of the server from the start, but also than the previous VMware 9.0 occupy less resources, below some of the process and problems, recorded here.

Download this, the official website, or Google search to download the address, this is very simple

Vmware-vmvisor-installer-5.5.0-1331820.x86_64.iso

The first problem encountered is that the old Peaches the ISO to the U disk, can not complete loading.

Download this software Rufus_v1.3.4.exe, the customer can finish loading.

Install half, hint unsupported hardware, after Google said is lack of driver support, 5.5 removed some of the 5.0 drivers, need to integrate their own drive into the ISO

Refer to these 2 URLs:

Http://www.v-front.de/2013/09/how-to-add-missing-esxi-50-drivers-to.html

http://matthill.eu/tutorials/add-drivers-to-a-vmware-esxi-iso/

After the integration to get Esxi-5.x-custom.iso, after burning successfully completed the installation.

After you configure settings such as IP,SSH, you do not need to use the server.

Remote Access uses Vmware-viclient-all-5.5.0-1281650.exe, which can be accessed from any computer after it is installed exsi5.5

Porting virtual machines

After shutting down all virtual machines, copy files directly to the ESXi server

Reference URL: Complete the conversion of the VMDK virtual hard disk, and then add all the virtual machines that have been coming to the Exsi list

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1028042

Vmkload_mod multiextent

Vmkfstools-i "/VMFS/VOLUMES/DATASTORE/EXAMPLEVM/EXAMPLEVM.VMDK" "/vmfs/volumes/datastore 2/newexamplevm/ NEWEXAMPLEVM.VMDK "-D thin-a buslogic

Reset the virtual machine, if found unable to start, only the vmdk file to success, then completely can be new virtual machine, load the original hard drive is good.

Configure the startup order of the virtual machines.

OK, start the virtual machine, everything is OK.

Using the Bitvise SSH client as the SSH clients

Todo:

Configure Exsi automatic shutdown, because this demand is not large, temporarily did not deal with, also did not find too good solution. In fact, according to the experience of using Linux, directly set up Linux automatic shutdown is good.