Practice installing ESXi with virtual machine vmware

For VMware vsphere Component ESXi, please do it yourself Baidu. I would like to make it easy to understand that this component is used by the virtual various clients after installing the ESXI system on the server and then virtualizing the entire server's hardware resources. The most obvious difference from the more familiar VMware Workstaion,esxi is that the former is installed on the server as a system, while the latter is installed on the system as software.

Personal computer, and not so many resources, but used to practice the installation is still possible, the application will look at the future. Originally I do not know exsi can be installed in the VMware workstaion virtual hardware, and then hold a try to try the mentality, point to open the VMware workstaion 10 unexpectedly see is support, gossip not much said, a word not immediately installed.

Start installation

Open VMware workstaion, new Virtual Machine-wizard step down I'm not specific, the point is "SELECT guest operating System" In this step we want to tick VMware ESX (X)

The following version of the dropdown selection box is based on all of your actual version selection, I have only ESXi5 installation image here, so I chose ESXi5.

After configuring the virtual machine operating system and hardware, mount the ESXi boot disk to start the virtual disc, after a boot will appear interface, enter continue.

Press F11 to agree agreement

Choose which disk to install, the virtual machine of course not to say that the default is divided by 40G to it, the actual production environment of course not only. Similarly, my virtual machine to its memory is only 4G, but the relative only 8G personal notebook is also enough distressed.

Select keyboard type

The administrator user name is root by default, so it's OK to set the root password here.

Password required for 7-bit length

Verify that the password you entered is the same, and you can enter it again.

I'll let you confirm the installation, didn't see?, F11

Installation in progress

The installation is complete and the virtual machine restarts.

After some guidance, appear above this a bit like red and white machine of the King Demeanor screen shows that the installation is successful, you can see the upper half of the screen display detected hardware. By the same note, if you forget, ESXi should have a dual-core CPU for the minimum.

The second half of the screen is to display the URL of the download related tools, and identify the address of my virtual network card and the way to get the IP is DHCP. The lower right corner prompts to press F12 to shut down or restart the computer;

The lower left corner prompts you to press F2 to enter system settings and view logs.

I believe we can all understand the simple English setting. It is more important to set the IP options, which are generally set to static IP.

There is a view of the situation without opening SSH remote and command line, here to practice, of course, it is more interesting to open.

For example, using SSH to see the system architecture of ESXi is UNIX, Linux. Some simple commands are also common.

You can also test the network connection, mainly ping.

Finally, on the Web page, you can see a variety of client links that provide download connections to ESXi

Practice installing ESXi with virtual machine vmware