Esxi home setup

The Add standard virtual switch window appears. Enter the vSwitch name , for example, vSwitch1. Select vmnic1 in the dropdown menu as Uplink 1. Edit other settings if needed and then click the Add button to add a new virtual switch. Now you can ping the IP address of VMkernel The first ESXi host is configured. SSO Configuration. Enter login and password that will be used for Single Sign On. System Configuration. Enter the root password and confirm this password.

This password will be used for console login. Upgrade Configuration. The parameters of this sub-menu must be configured if you wish to upgrade the existing VMware vCenter Server.

Skip configuring this category of parameters if you deploy a fresh vCenter instance. Networking Properties. Enter the domain name the same as used by ESXi host you have deployed. In the current example, the default localdomain name is used. After deploying is complete, the VM is started automatically. The blue-gray management interface is similar to the yellow-gray ESXi management interface see the screenshot below. You can check the IP configuration to make sure that network settings are configured correctly inside the VM.

Check the network settings. After doing this, open the console on your physical machine and ping your vCenter Server IP address ping In the Getting Started screen press the Set up icon to configure this appliance as a new vCenter Server. Then the Stage 2 installation wizard is opened.

Sometimes errors may occur during installation. This section can help you fix some of the most common errors you can expect to encounter. Important: In case you set up a VMware lab at home and there is not a local DNS server in your network, you can get the error message at the stage 2 of deploying vCenter.

If the supplied system name is an IP address, then it should be one of the valid IP address es in the system. This is not the same DNS server that is defined for connecting outside your local network to Internet, for example in this case. You may need to re-deploy the OVA template after displaying this error. In the current VMware lab setup for home that is deployed for writing this blog post, the following host names are used for the hosts.

Of course, it is better to configure a fully-functioning DNS server in the local area network of a production environment for deploying VMware vSphere. The following strings are added in this case on the host machine:. This error may occur after rebooting vCenter Server. This error can occur if some vCenter services have not started yet. Check to verify that the appropriate services are running by going to the web page for vCenter appliance management.

In this case, the following address should be used:. Select the needed service that is not running and hit Start or Restart. You may need to wait for a few minutes. Also check other services if necessary. When the necessary services are running, try to reconnect to your VMware vSphere Client. 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:. They are available once you register at the official VMware website. It should be noted that the connection between Layer 2 VMs is disabled by default. Well, this is a Nested Virtualization quirk. Also, note that you need to assign some resources to vCenter Server in advance to avoid it altering the performance of VMs from Layer 2.

Trust me, taking a just a tiny fraction of resources available for both ESXi hosts is the only thing you can do to make sure that everything runs smoothly at the end. I have distributed the resources across the Layer 1 VMs. Well, I think it is enough for this study. The way you can create ESXi hosts is discussed here. Just use ESXi image instead of Windows one. The warning below says that I cannot count on VMware support running the configuration like that.

I have a gut feeling that everything works out at the end. If you forgot to tick that checkbox, no worries. You can enable it later in VM settings. How many vCPUs should you assign to the hosts? Just as many as the New virtual machine wizard allows! In my case, it is kinda a coincidence that the number of sockets matches the number of cores per socket.

Who knows, I may need to adjust that number in a while. Just a friendly advice: think through IP address distribution beforehand. Find more details about vCenter Server installation here. I decided not to go further than 1 VM per-host in this study. Of course, the configuration that I use here allows running more than a single VM, but I just do not want to bother with their creation.

The setup I described here provides beginners who are on strict budgets with a lab to try out virtualization. Skip to content. Introduction While writing my previous article , I remembered the days when I was only building my first lab. The downloaded OVA file will be uploaded to the ESXi host at the end of the wizard and, if you left it selected, the machine will auto-boot when complete.

Home Assistant offers a number of options when it comes to using their home automation software. You can either install it as a standalone package Home Assistant Core on an existing system, or if you have supported hardware, you are able to use a version of it called Home Assistant OS previously known as HASSio.

This combines a minimal operating system, the Home Assistant Core package, and the Home Assistant Supervisor to provide the maintenance tools to manage the system. The next step is to upload the uncompressed disk image to a location on your ESXi host. Where this appears in the below screenshots, change it as appropriate for your own configuration. To enable proper compatibility with ESXi, including allowing the ability to take snapshots, you need to convert it using the built in ESXi shell command vmkfstools.

Log in using the root account to ensure that you have the necessary permissions to run the following commands.

Next convert the disk image to the required format with the following command, adjusting the filename as appropriate to the version number downloaded. Once this completes, you can follow the instructions above to disable SSH again; if left enabled, a security warning will constantly display in ESXi.