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
- 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).
- Power off the hv VM if it's still powered on.
- Right click on the hv VM and edit settings
- Change the virtual CD to the [Datastore B] ISO/VMware-ESXi-6.7U3b.iso file.
- 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.
- 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"
- 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.
- Select to boot from the CD drive
- Begin the ESXi installation process
- 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!
- 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.
- Login as the root user.
- 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.
- Create a new folder on your ESXi datastore for ISO files.
- 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.
- Log in to the "VMware Host Client" through the web interface using your new login credentials (not the root account)
- 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.
- Create a new VM on your ESXi system where you can install the Linux Mint system.
- Complete the installation of Linux Mint as a VM on your ESXi host
- Safely shutdown your ESXi servers
- Safely shutdown your remote desktop VM