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Learning VMware vSphere

You're reading from   Learning VMware vSphere Lay the foundations for data center virtualization using VMware vSphere 6 and strengthen your understanding of its power

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2016
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ISBN-13 9781782174158
Length 606 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhilash G B Abhilash G B
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Rebecca Fitzhugh Rebecca Fitzhugh
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Preface 1. An Introduction to Server Virtualization Using VMware FREE CHAPTER 2. The Hypervisor – ESXi 3. The Management Layer – VMware vCenter 4. vSphere Networking Concepts and Management 5. vSphere Storage Concepts and Management 6. Advanced vSphere Infrastructure Management 7. Understanding Host Profiles, Image Profiles, and Auto Deploy 8. Virtual Machines Concepts and Management 9. Monitoring Performance of a vSphere Environment 10. Certificate Management for a vSphere Environment 11. Securing a vSphere Environment 12. Life Cycle Management of a vSphere Environment

Installing ESXi – the interactive method


ESXi can be installed onto a bare-metal server by running it through the interactive installer bundled with the hypervisor image that you have downloaded. You will need the ISO bundle to perform the interactive installation. You can either mount it to the server through its IPMI interface (HP ILO, Cisco KVM, or Dell DRAC) or burn the image onto a DVD and load that into the server's DVD ROM drive if you are using tower servers. Before you begin, make sure to configure the server's BIOS to boot from the CD ROM. Now, let's walk through the interactive installation procedure:

  1. When the server boots up from the ESXi image, you will be presented with the ESXi installer's standard boot menu, the first line item being the ESXi installer and the second being the option to boot from the local disk. Unless you want to boot from the local disk select the ESXi installer entry and hit Enter to load the installer into the memory. The process of loading the installer...

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