Thanks Rob, the simplest and easiest explanation of VMWare vSphere and great tip to use USB to save hdd space. Kudos !!.....Time to fire my system admin though 👿...just kidding..
tomorrow I will have an interview, if I manage to get that job with the knowledge here, I own you a beer then. Anyway, I learned something valuable and useful from you. Thanks.
Dude, this is not just useful. This is real life knowledge. Thanks for sharing it man. Jesus, I doubt anyone would teach this stuff to a graduated students patiently like you did. BTW, at the beginning, that big hardware stack ,what is official name for it? Server stack?
Thanks! I make it a point to not over complicate things and make my content as digestible as possible. To answer your question about the rack, sometimes I call it my server stack and other times I call it my server rack, either one works but mine technically aren't even in a real rack. :)
I like the R710 but honestly in a 2U space Id much rather go for 2x R610s with the 6 x 2.5" bays each or a C2100 with 12 x 3.5" bays. I really only go for 3.5" when I am looking to run larger drives, which is rare.
Rob Willis Fortunately I have a giant stack of 3.5" drives at my disposal and plenty of rack space. I realize this is probably not the case for most people. I am going to check out that C2100. Thanks again!
It's really not as hard on the USB as you would think, the entire ESXi image is loaded into memory (RAM) at boot. I've had multiple host running this way for years with no issues.
You would lose the ESXi install, but the VM's would still be intact on the other disks. So to recover - reinstall ESXi on a new USB, set the IP, import the VM's from the disks and done. Pretty painless. Also for those wondering in my experience over 6 yrs, I have only had this happen 2 times. Since I switched the the aluminum cased usb drives I haven't had one die....yet :)
I've never done this, but depending on the versions in use, I believe there are paths for this type of migration but I would refer to VMWares documentation on that.
08:00 - VMWare ESXI Web Console Dell PowerEdge R710 has a Dell Customized 6.7.0U3 image at vmware.com Very helpful video. I’d like to watch a video that explains all the VM options and Windows Server options and what the differences and advantages are!
You can do this and it will work absolutely fine! The reason I don't is that the ESXi image is very small so it doesn't take a lot of space (so why waste a hdd on it) and it is loaded into memory at boot, this also means you can save all the hard drives for virtual machines.
It's been awhile since I made this video, but I am pretty sure that is just left over space on the USB drive that is being used to boot ESXi. The vmware installer slices the usb drive up into multiple partitions.
@@robwillisinfo Thanks for your reply, it has been awhile. I guess that you added that free space as the first datastore, or is it automatically added by the installer?
Hey Rob I’m going through this process but renting a server from a company and wanted to know how to setup with a dedicated or / static IP address from my home so I can login and have control. Any tips appreciated
Hi! I no can after instal acess de ip. Him not can connect. my version is a 7. I have a query, Do you can do one video step by step if ou use vmware 15 for instalation and how.I think that I am doing something wrong. This is my first test. I mont one pc xeon 24 threads with 32GB ram ans m2 nvme 250GB. I'm learning alone see youtube videos, but in all instalatin not can conect server esxi 7
What I want to do when I'm finished building my computer, is to install a type 1 hyperviser. Then install my daily driver os ( most likely windows 10 LTSC) in a VM. I then want to create a second VM for just messing with stuff like maybe trying linux, macOs, or who knows. I don't have a second computer to manage stuff from. Please advise. Thank you in advance
With ESXi this wouldn't work since you don't actually manage ESXi from the host itself. Instead what I would do is install Windows 10 on your main machines and then run something like Hyper-V (built in to Win 10) or VMware workstation to install and test VMs.
Thanks that was helpful. I thought you said earlier that the ESXI license was free? Do you have to pay after 60 days to register the license or is that free? Where do you go to license it?
Rob, could you please tell me which version is better ? essential version or desktop version or platinum version ? and what is the difference between them ? is there any difference ?
You would need to rebuild the ESXi portion - set the ip, license, vSwitches. The VM's and their config files are stored on the datastores that they are located on, so you won't loose any of those settings. One interesting bit though - If the usb was pulled while the server was on, it would just keep running until the server was rebooted since the image is loaded into and ran from memory on boot.
I could connect to the ESXi server with another computer in the same network through a web browser as you did, but when I try to connect to the ESXi on a different Network through the web browser, it refuses to connect. What do I need to do?
What browser are you using? Ive heard that IE has this limitation, but chrome shouldn't. Honestly it's been quite awhile since I have had to do it that way. Nowadays I usually store the ISO images on a NFS share and then attach that directly to all of the ESXi hosts.
Thanks for the guidance! Well explained! Just delved into the virtualization game and just tested proxmox. I hope ESXi will work a bit better for me. Whats happens after the 60 days? Will i still be able to use the it or will there be some severe restrictions coming in?
1 for usb booting use ventoy, 2nd you dont wana run windows with admin account 24-7 use a normal user account no admin then elevate privaliges when needed which is never that often tbh! other than that good vid.
I've changed some things up since this video, replacing the 4 x CS-24SC's (8 Cores per chassis) with 4 x R610's (12 Cores per chassis), but right now it sits just shy of 900w with a light to medium load.
I installed ESXi on my one SSD that I have in my PowerEdge r610. The rest is around 700GB or harddrives. Do you recommend me to reinstall ESXi and put it on the USB drive or keep it as is? (It was such a hassle installing it on my SSD haha.) But how do I backup all of my virtual machines if I wanted to reinstall now? And can I buy another Poweredge and move my virtual machines to that VMware ESXi without turning the VMs off?
Here's how I look at it, you can keep running ESXi off that SSD, or swap it out to a USB drive and use the SSD for more VM's. :) The VM's are stored on the data stores with their config files, so assuming you wipe out or even if ESXi dies, all you need to do is re import the VM's from the data store and everything is back to the way it was. You just don't want to wipe the data stores housing your VMs. You can live migrate VM's from one host to another but youre going to need vCenter for that, along with some shared storage. Without shared storage, you can still migrate them but they will need powered off and you still need vCenter.
So, do I understand correctly: A powerful machine runs ESXi. Then you have to have another machine, like a netbook with windows to access ESXi settings through a browser. There, you set up and finally run some virtual machines. Let’s say a windows to play games and Ubuntu to be home automation server. How do I use my virtual gaming windows? Where do I plug my keyboard and a mouse? How do I use my Ubuntu?
So you got it right for the most part, but you wouldn't want to run your "gaming windows" on VMware ESXi. You could run game servers. And you won't use a keyboard/mouse to directly access the servers, you would use RDP/PowerShell, SSH, VNC, etc. If you really wanted to game but try out some virtualization and only had one box, Id run Windows as a base OS and then VMware workstation to play around. Hyper-V does have an interesting use case around gaming over RDP using a VM and RemoteFX, but thats a whole nother conversation :)
I'm honestly not sure on this one as I have not spent much time working with ESXi and GPU's. There is obviously going to be more over head virtualized, but I would imagine that it is minimal at this point.
Are USB drives designed to last and be used for booting always the way you have it? Do you have copies of the contents in another USB in case the one you have connected fails or is this something that is not necessary?
You are overthinking this a bit, the drive isn't used like a normal OS where you would worry about it constantly reading and writing to the drive, killing the life of the drive. ESXi loads the data from the drive into memory at boot and that is it, it then runs entirely from memory. If the drive would die, I would just reinstall ESXi onto a new drive. The reinstall doesn't take long and there is barely any configuration (mainly setting up the networking) that needs to be done. All of the VM's and their configuration are stored on the other datastores. At the same time, I don't see an issue with keeping a copy of the usb for backup purposes but that is just not something I am doing. In the last 4 or 5 yrs, I have yet to have a usb drive fail on me from being used this way.
Quick question : do you build your raid array during the install too (if you were installing it to a local server disk), or is this something you’d do either prior or post in the server settings?
The array needs to be built before attempting to install the OS. Once it is built, when you boot the OS media for the install, it will see the array as a single drive. Note you may need to load drivers for the controller during the OS install in order to see and use the drive.
hey everyone, i'm new to vmware esxi. I've managed to install esxi6.0 on vmware workstation. Can anyone tell me what is vcenter. Why and where do we need to run vcenter?
Just circling back around to this video. Rob, love the little rack you've got there or that you've built / customized to your needs. You may have already mentioned it (I haven't gone all the way through the video yet) but where did you source that from or what did you use to retrofit?
Thanks! Honestly I just based it off of the approx size of the servers which were something like 18" x 28" and then accounted for 3 x 1u (1.75") and 3x 2u (3.5") chassis's. I built a frame that would fit that out of 2" x 3"s and then covered it with 12" wide pine boards. I just did a new video with some more info on my rack and everything else that can be found here: ruclips.net/video/pXfrfbw4LXQ/видео.html
If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. As the client you can boot from network (even on the hypervisor) and you can pull information from there. Booting a PXE environment as the stand-alone datastore is not a good idea though, you would be setting yourself up for an unfixable loop.
There is an additional package/tool that you can download called called vCenter Converter that does this and can be downloaded here: www.vmware.com/products/converter.html
If this is for a personal machine, it works great. But for servers or anything that uses certifications / authortative anything, it will corrupt Sids/Certs/The OS might detect a massive hardware change and BSOD among many other things.
The Xeon 56xx series is on the HCL for 6.5, but may be dropped in future releases. I've had no issues with dual x5650's. www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=cpu&details=1&cpu_series=24&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
Rob Willis u use H700 and the esxi6.7 detect the raid? My question is because im buying one R610 with 2xX5650 and the H700 with 512mb. I want it to run with raid 5 and esxi6.7
My first ESXi box ever was a core 2 quad in a retired gaming rig, usually the biggest issues you run into are driver support around things like the storage controller, NIC, etc. Obviously this isn't supported, but it's worth giving it a shot if you have a spare box laying around.
Ok, so I have got ESXi installed on my Dell R710. I burnt the ISO on a DVD and installed it on my 16Gb USB drive. Awesome! The only thing that I forgot to do was install some hard drives in my server, so I am unable to create a datastore. Do you have a vid on how to install and configure hard drives inside of a server - how do I set up raid, and do I need the same capacity hard drives?
Usually the best place to look for this kind of info is the Owners Manual that comes with the server, you can find the pdf on Dells site. The steps will vary depending on the chassis and the RAID controller. The general idea though is you will hit something like CTRL + R at boot to enter the controller and then from there you will select which drives and RAID type. It's pretty straight forward.
I can't say that 6.5 was terribly slow for me, but each new release does seem to get a little snappier and the HTML5 client has really come along as well.
I am wondering why there is 34 dislikes , hey gurus stop underestimating creative people , go ahead rob willis , thank you
Love your teaching style. Very fluid, and easy to understand non-accented speaking. Hope you continue cranking out great material. Subscribed.
Love the fact there is no accent
perfect walk through for new users to role out Vsphere ESXi
Thanks for your work bud. By far one of the easiest tutorials I've seen.
Straightforward and the kind of information and introduction I needed . Take love .
Hey Rob you are Stunning bro thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.
great video for someone to begin with Vsphere
totally agree
Hey Rob, another great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us ;)
What if ur hardware doesn't have a windows/ any other os installed?.. How would you access the ESXi web client then? Loved ur video though!! :)
Thanks Rob, the simplest and easiest explanation of VMWare vSphere and great tip to use USB to save hdd space. Kudos !!.....Time to fire my system admin though 👿...just kidding..
Man oh Man .. can't thank you enough for the amount of doubts you cleared for me !!
Thanks Rob. Your video tutorial is awesome.
Simple and an Amazing video. Please keep posting.
Excellent video, appreciate the effort that you took to make it.
tomorrow I will have an interview, if I manage to get that job with the knowledge here, I own you a beer then.
Anyway, I learned something valuable and useful from you.
Thanks.
Glad you found it useful! Good luck on your interview!
Dude, this is not just useful. This is real life knowledge. Thanks for sharing it man.
Jesus, I doubt anyone would teach this stuff to a graduated students patiently like you did.
BTW, at the beginning, that big hardware stack ,what is official name for it? Server stack?
Thanks! I make it a point to not over complicate things and make my content as digestible as possible. To answer your question about the rack, sometimes I call it my server stack and other times I call it my server rack, either one works but mine technically aren't even in a real rack. :)
Thank you! awesome setup and video, got great pointers from you.
nice and helpful video. do u have any video on installation of vCenter Server on Esxi host machine step by step? Thanks
If there is room in the budget I might suggest an R710 LFF which allows you to use 3.5" hard drives.
Thanks for another great video!
I like the R710 but honestly in a 2U space Id much rather go for 2x R610s with the 6 x 2.5" bays each or a C2100 with 12 x 3.5" bays. I really only go for 3.5" when I am looking to run larger drives, which is rare.
Rob Willis Fortunately I have a giant stack of 3.5" drives at my disposal and plenty of rack space. I realize this is probably not the case for most people. I am going to check out that C2100. Thanks again!
Thank you for sharing this info dear brother, you doing a great job for us the new guys.
Best tutorial on RUclips.
Thank you so much
helpful to understand the vmware esxi
Wawo so clearly explained much appreciated. Thanks
I can't thank you enough man. You've gained a subscriber.
Great Video!!!Thank you for making those awesome videos and uploading them.
Verice nice. Perfect start in the ESXi World
Most amazing review ever!
Thank you so much :)
What about the reliability about using a USB flash drive instead of a SSD drive?
It's really not as hard on the USB as you would think, the entire ESXi image is loaded into memory (RAM) at boot. I've had multiple host running this way for years with no issues.
helped with my networking apprenticeship
im just wondering.. what happens if the USB disk dies? and u have installed the ESXi on them... will u lose all ur vms?
You would lose the ESXi install, but the VM's would still be intact on the other disks. So to recover - reinstall ESXi on a new USB, set the IP, import the VM's from the disks and done. Pretty painless. Also for those wondering in my experience over 6 yrs, I have only had this happen 2 times. Since I switched the the aluminum cased usb drives I haven't had one die....yet :)
how you add additional 2 storages.. your host have less storage right. You manually added additional HDD physical?
Legend.. Brill tutorial, thanks.
hey man what are the dimensions of that rack? i plan on buying a poweredge and amazon seems to only have smaller sized networking racks.
Very well designed tutorial. Thumbs up
Simply Brilliant.. Thanks Rob :)
Hello, Can i move a physical installation to vSPHERE?
I've never done this, but depending on the versions in use, I believe there are paths for this type of migration but I would refer to VMWares documentation on that.
Please keep it up with great videos
Excellent tutorial! Can you tell me what was the software that you used from Windows to access your Server in order to install ESXi? Many thanks.
I'm guessing he had to use a physically connected KVM since the ESXi OS doesn't have any kind of UI to support remote access.
08:00 - VMWare ESXI Web Console
Dell PowerEdge R710 has a Dell Customized 6.7.0U3 image at vmware.com
Very helpful video. I’d like to watch a video that explains all the VM options and Windows Server options and what the differences and advantages are!
Nice Explaination. I love it. Make more videos for get more information.
Hello thanks for the video, is it necessary to use a USB for your installation?I mean you need to have your usb all the time when running your esxi?
What if I choose the other drives when a prompt appeared when installing?
You can do this and it will work absolutely fine! The reason I don't is that the ESXi image is very small so it doesn't take a lot of space (so why waste a hdd on it) and it is loaded into memory at boot, this also means you can save all the hard drives for virtual machines.
@@robwillisinfo Thank you for answering my question sir out of curiosity hehe. Have a good day!
Just curious, what is that 512MB datastore?
It's been awhile since I made this video, but I am pretty sure that is just left over space on the USB drive that is being used to boot ESXi. The vmware installer slices the usb drive up into multiple partitions.
@@robwillisinfo Thanks for your reply, it has been awhile. I guess that you added that free space as the first datastore, or is it automatically added by the installer?
Hey Rob I’m going through this process but renting a server from a company and wanted to know how to setup with a dedicated or / static IP address from my home so I can login and have control. Any tips appreciated
Great demonstration! Thank you.
My God what a tutorial.......such a great
Hi! I no can after instal acess de ip. Him not can connect. my version is a 7. I have a query, Do you can do one video step by step if ou use vmware 15 for instalation and how.I think that I am doing something wrong. This is my first test. I mont one pc xeon 24 threads with 32GB ram ans m2 nvme 250GB. I'm learning alone see youtube videos, but in all instalatin not can conect server esxi 7
What I want to do when I'm finished building my computer, is to install a type 1 hyperviser. Then install my daily driver os ( most likely windows 10 LTSC) in a VM. I then want to create a second VM for just messing with stuff like maybe trying linux, macOs, or who knows. I don't have a second computer to manage stuff from. Please advise.
Thank you in advance
With ESXi this wouldn't work since you don't actually manage ESXi from the host itself. Instead what I would do is install Windows 10 on your main machines and then run something like Hyper-V (built in to Win 10) or VMware workstation to install and test VMs.
i installed esxi7.0 and it cannt detect the hard drives. i when and create a new VM with RAID 5 and still wont work.
Where did you get those nice smooth patch cables?
I just wonder how much power is that rig of yours drawing?
Thanks that was helpful. I thought you said earlier that the ESXI license was free? Do you have to pay after 60 days to register the license or is that free? Where do you go to license it?
ESXi has a free version, but vCenter is not free and will expire after the 60 days. You can get the ESXi license by registering on VMwares website.
Rob, could you please tell me which version is better ? essential version or desktop version or platinum version ? and what is the difference between them ? is there any difference ?
nice tutorial, so what would happen to your settings if someone stole that USB drive that has the vsphere??
You would need to rebuild the ESXi portion - set the ip, license, vSwitches. The VM's and their config files are stored on the datastores that they are located on, so you won't loose any of those settings. One interesting bit though - If the usb was pulled while the server was on, it would just keep running until the server was rebooted since the image is loaded into and ran from memory on boot.
Rob Willis could you clone the usb and have it locked away as a spare?
If someone stole the USB drive, you'd track them down and break their legs! Chances are it'll be a sibling...So yeah, take those legs out...!
Yes, you can Joe2016
well since its already in memory and not needed till you reboot just keep it locked up. leg breakage avoided
why esxi is installed to usb disk? as usb is installer, the esxi should be installed to hard disk. isn't it?
I could connect to the ESXi server with another computer in the same network through a web browser as you did, but when I try to connect to the ESXi on a different Network through the web browser, it refuses to connect. What do I need to do?
Make you have the proper firewall rules and routes in place. ;)
Thanks for great video but how do you upload a large ISO like for Server 2012 or 2016. The browser plugin only allows for 4GB. Thanks
What browser are you using? Ive heard that IE has this limitation, but chrome shouldn't. Honestly it's been quite awhile since I have had to do it that way. Nowadays I usually store the ISO images on a NFS share and then attach that directly to all of the ESXi hosts.
Thanks for the guidance! Well explained! Just delved into the virtualization game and just tested proxmox. I hope ESXi will work a bit better for me.
Whats happens after the 60 days? Will i still be able to use the it or will there be some severe restrictions coming in?
After the 60 days there are impactful restrictions that kick in like you can not power on or reset vms, so you don't want to get to this point.
Will this work for booting diskless thin clients
1 for usb booting use ventoy, 2nd you dont wana run windows with admin account 24-7 use a normal user account no admin then elevate privaliges when needed which is never that often tbh! other than that good vid.
Rob, How much energy whole server rack consuming ?
I've changed some things up since this video, replacing the 4 x CS-24SC's (8 Cores per chassis) with 4 x R610's (12 Cores per chassis), but right now it sits just shy of 900w with a light to medium load.
Thank you that was awesome .appreciate
What rack is that?
I made the rack out of 2x3s and some 1 ft x 4 ft pine boards then staind it black with some poly on the top part.
A rack server
Nice Rack
thnx so much , u are the best :) .... From Germany
Great! Awesome demo! Helped a lot!
where did you buy your server rack from as it is great looking ???
Thanks! I actually made it :) It's just some 2 x 3s and pine boarding from home depot, and then i stained it ebony.
I installed ESXi on my one SSD that I have in my PowerEdge r610. The rest is around 700GB or harddrives.
Do you recommend me to reinstall ESXi and put it on the USB drive or keep it as is?
(It was such a hassle installing it on my SSD haha.)
But how do I backup all of my virtual machines if I wanted to reinstall now?
And can I buy another Poweredge and move my virtual machines to that VMware ESXi without turning the VMs off?
Here's how I look at it, you can keep running ESXi off that SSD, or swap it out to a USB drive and use the SSD for more VM's. :) The VM's are stored on the data stores with their config files, so assuming you wipe out or even if ESXi dies, all you need to do is re import the VM's from the data store and everything is back to the way it was. You just don't want to wipe the data stores housing your VMs. You can live migrate VM's from one host to another but youre going to need vCenter for that, along with some shared storage. Without shared storage, you can still migrate them but they will need powered off and you still need vCenter.
So, do I understand correctly:
A powerful machine runs ESXi.
Then you have to have another machine, like a netbook with windows to access ESXi settings through a browser.
There, you set up and finally run some virtual machines. Let’s say a windows to play games and Ubuntu to be home automation server.
How do I use my virtual gaming windows? Where do I plug my keyboard and a mouse?
How do I use my Ubuntu?
So you got it right for the most part, but you wouldn't want to run your "gaming windows" on VMware ESXi. You could run game servers. And you won't use a keyboard/mouse to directly access the servers, you would use RDP/PowerShell, SSH, VNC, etc. If you really wanted to game but try out some virtualization and only had one box, Id run Windows as a base OS and then VMware workstation to play around. Hyper-V does have an interesting use case around gaming over RDP using a VM and RemoteFX, but thats a whole nother conversation :)
Can I install this on my main server? I only have one server but need to run ESXi also.
On bare metal, What will be performance of virtual workstaion desktop which needs intense GPU usage for Ansys, or CATIA software.
Thanks a ton.
I'm honestly not sure on this one as I have not spent much time working with ESXi and GPU's. There is obviously going to be more over head virtualized, but I would imagine that it is minimal at this point.
Thanks for reply Rob. Make a video on benchmarking Desktop Workstation vs Virtual workstation for graphics hungry software if you spare some time.
Can you send me to URL amazon or manufacturer website URL to buy the rack you have. Thanks in advance.
Using the DX emulator in VMware is sketchy at best. I would recommend using physical boxes with semi-modern multi port video output (gtx960 - 1050ti).
how to toggle back to web console after installation?
Are USB drives designed to last and be used for booting always the way you have it? Do you have copies of the contents in another USB in case the one you have connected fails or is this something that is not necessary?
You are overthinking this a bit, the drive isn't used like a normal OS where you would worry about it constantly reading and writing to the drive, killing the life of the drive. ESXi loads the data from the drive into memory at boot and that is it, it then runs entirely from memory. If the drive would die, I would just reinstall ESXi onto a new drive. The reinstall doesn't take long and there is barely any configuration (mainly setting up the networking) that needs to be done. All of the VM's and their configuration are stored on the other datastores. At the same time, I don't see an issue with keeping a copy of the usb for backup purposes but that is just not something I am doing. In the last 4 or 5 yrs, I have yet to have a usb drive fail on me from being used this way.
very good for beginners
Rob Willis, the guy everyone wishes was their teacher/manager/coworker
Quick question : do you build your raid array during the install too (if you were installing it to a local server disk), or is this something you’d do either prior or post in the server settings?
The array needs to be built before attempting to install the OS. Once it is built, when you boot the OS media for the install, it will see the array as a single drive. Note you may need to load drivers for the controller during the OS install in order to see and use the drive.
when I upload an .iso the status bar stays at 0%. Why is that?
very nice tutorial, Thanks..!!!
hey everyone, i'm new to vmware esxi. I've managed to install esxi6.0 on vmware workstation. Can anyone tell me what is vcenter. Why and where do we need to run vcenter?
Check this video out: ruclips.net/video/-Hltydu9PXk/видео.html&lc=Ugz51k2kK4qWIKLVF1J4AaABAg
Just circling back around to this video. Rob, love the little rack you've got there or that you've built / customized to your needs. You may have already mentioned it (I haven't gone all the way through the video yet) but where did you source that from or what did you use to retrofit?
Thanks! Honestly I just based it off of the approx size of the servers which were something like 18" x 28" and then accounted for 3 x 1u (1.75") and 3x 2u (3.5") chassis's. I built a frame that would fit that out of 2" x 3"s and then covered it with 12" wide pine boards. I just did a new video with some more info on my rack and everything else that can be found here: ruclips.net/video/pXfrfbw4LXQ/видео.html
Help n explain. as a client.. can i boot from bios net boot? i mean some pc has net boot from boot menu.
If I'm understanding the question correctly, yes. As the client you can boot from network (even on the hypervisor) and you can pull information from there. Booting a PXE environment as the stand-alone datastore is not a good idea though, you would be setting yourself up for an unfixable loop.
Thank you Rob
Great stuff brother - thank you!
when i try to install 6.5 it says my cpu does not support it. what should i do?
Did you confirm if virtualization is enable on your machine? You might have figured it out by now.
someone told me that with vcenter version you can select a physical computer and the vmware server will turn it into a virtual machine. Is this true??
There is an additional package/tool that you can download called called vCenter Converter that does this and can be downloaded here:
www.vmware.com/products/converter.html
VMWare does have a vCenter converter to do that
If this is for a personal machine, it works great. But for servers or anything that uses certifications / authortative anything, it will corrupt Sids/Certs/The OS might detect a massive hardware change and BSOD among many other things.
Awesome! Straight forward tutorial! worth the sub!
Hi,but ESXi 6.5 in compatible with dual Xeon X5690?
The Xeon 56xx series is on the HCL for 6.5, but may be dropped in future releases. I've had no issues with dual x5650's.
www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=cpu&details=1&cpu_series=24&page=1&display_interval=10&sortColumn=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
Thanks you very much
did u get it to esxi 6.7?
Yes sir, I am running ESXi 6.7 all around now with no issues.
Rob Willis u use H700 and the esxi6.7 detect the raid? My question is because im buying one R610 with 2xX5650 and the H700 with 512mb. I want it to run with raid 5 and esxi6.7
Thanks for this video dear its help me a lot
Why is your SERVER standing on carpet floor?
Is it possible to run esxi 6.5 on intel i7 with a gaming motherboard instead of intel xeon series?
My first ESXi box ever was a core 2 quad in a retired gaming rig, usually the biggest issues you run into are driver support around things like the storage controller, NIC, etc. Obviously this isn't supported, but it's worth giving it a shot if you have a spare box laying around.
Awesome explanation.... keep it up !!
Thanks!! Excellent video!
Which servers are these??
4x Dell CS24-SC's and 2x Dell C2100's.
A rack server
Now you can do whole things on RPi4 #RaspberryPi
Thanks, Nice Tutorial.
still such a useful guide
Wonderful experience...
Ok, so I have got ESXi installed on my Dell R710. I burnt the ISO on a DVD and installed it on my 16Gb USB drive. Awesome! The only thing that I forgot to do was install some hard drives in my server, so I am unable to create a datastore. Do you have a vid on how to install and configure hard drives inside of a server - how do I set up raid, and do I need the same capacity hard drives?
Usually the best place to look for this kind of info is the Owners Manual that comes with the server, you can find the pdf on Dells site. The steps will vary depending on the chassis and the RAID controller. The general idea though is you will hit something like CTRL + R at boot to enter the controller and then from there you will select which drives and RAID type. It's pretty straight forward.
I had to leave a like and a comment, great video :)
Very helpful. Thank you.
Awesome video!
Do you feel ESXI 6.5 has a sickening slow response. ESXI 6.7 has everything corrected.
I can't say that 6.5 was terribly slow for me, but each new release does seem to get a little snappier and the HTML5 client has really come along as well.