VmWare ESXi Installation Lab

IP Addressing

You will be assigning static IPs to your systems in this lab. Please use these settings:

• Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
• Default Gateway: 192.168.1.1
• DNS Server 192.168.1.1

System	IP
HV-A	192.168.1.20
HV-B	192.168.1.21

Instructions

1. You will be installing a VMware ESXi server on the two hypervisor (hv) VMs assigned to you (so do all these steps, unless otherwise indicated, on each system).
2. Power off the hv VM if it's still powered on.
3. Right click on the hv VM and edit settings
   1. Change the virtual CD to the [Datastore B] ISO/VMware-ESXi-6.7U3b.iso file.
   2. On the "VM Options" tab under "Boot Options" change the boot delay to 10000 ms to give you a 10 second window after starting the VM to change the boot device.
   3. On the "VM Options" tab under "General Options" change the "Guest OS" to Other and the "Guest OS Version" to "VMware ESXi 6.5 or later"
4. Power on the hv VM and quickly (within 10 seconds) open a console window and press the 'Esc key to get a boot order menu.
5. Select to boot from the CD drive
6. Begin the ESXi installation process
7. Set the root password on your ESXi system during the installation, it needs to be at least 7 characters and contain multiple character types. Be sure to write it down!
8. Browse to the ESXi system in a web browser from your computer. Note that it will NOT yet be at the IP address in the table above, we will set a static IP in the next lab. For now your ESXi system should have a DHCP IP address which is displayed on it's console screen.
9. Login as the root user.
10. Add a new account and give it administrative permissions to the ESXi system. Log out of the root account and in with the new user account.
11. Create a new folder on your ESXi datastore for ISO files.
12. Use a web browser on your remote desktop VM (which should still have Windows 10 installed from a previous lab) to access the ESXi server's web interface.
13. Log in to the "VMware Host Client" through the web interface using your new login credentials (not the root account)
14. Use your remote desktop VM to upload the Windows 10 and Linux Mint ISO files to the new ISO folder on your ESXi server datastore.
    • The ISO files can be found on the Windows SMB share "\\san1.campus.ihitc.net\Student Files\ITC2300" which you can access from your remote desktop VM. Use your VPN login credentials but with @campus.ihitc.net on the end like username@campus.ihitc.net to access the files.
15. Create a new VM on your ESXi system where you can install the Linux Mint system.
16. Complete the installation of Linux Mint as a VM on your ESXi host
17. Safely shutdown your ESXi servers
18. Safely shutdown your remote desktop VM