Today we will walk through Installation and configuration steps for vSphere ESXi version 6.5 and we will need following items to continue, VMware ESXi Hypervisor installation ISO – Can be obtained from my.vmware.com. Compatible hardware device (or a virtual machine in a lab environment) – Check VMware HCL for compatible hardware devices. ESXi Installation requires following hardware and system resources, Host machine should have at least 2 CPU cores. Minimum required physical memory is 4GB and Recommended to have at least 8 GB of RAM. Boot device should have at least 1GB of space. Intel XD or AMD NX bit to be enabled in BIOS. Hardware virtualization (Intel VT-x or…
-
-
Introduction to VMware vSphere
VMware has introduced a broad range of products to use in virtualized environment to create a true software defined data center. Their products falls in many categories including datacenter and cloud infrastructure, infrastructure & operations management, network and security and application management etc. Out of those VMware vSphere is the core product portfolio from VMware. Over the years vSphere has grown exponentially with products like Operations manager, Replication, data protection and NSX. Today we will discuss about two products from vSphere which common to all their licensing categories. VMware ESXi Hypervisor ESXi (or previously known as ESX) is the founding stone to their almost all the products. It’s a type…
-
Welcome to Virtualization
Virtualization, in the simplest form is running workloads in a virtual environment. It simulate or emulate physical resources in a virtual environment in order to achieve better utilization, faster deployment times and easier management. We need a special software component called the Hypervisor in order to provide physical resources to virtualized workloads. There are two types of Hypervisors, Type one hypervisor Type two hypervisor Type one hypervisor This type of hypervisors run directly on host hardware. So they are also called bare metal hypervisors or native hypervisors. Examples for these are, VMware ESX and ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) Citrix XenServer Oracle VM These hypervisors do not…
