Now we have multiple ESXi hosts installed and configured in our environment. Managing those ESXi hosts individually through host web client or vSphere legacy client can be a tedious task. Also you are missing features like vSphere HA, DRS, VM cloning and template management. Solution to all those problems is installing an vCenter server to centralize management of ESXi hosts. Now let’s install and configure VMware vCenter server v6.5. You can download a trial version of vCenter Server from my.vmware.com. Since the vSphere version 5.0 VMware offered an appliance version for vCenter but windows version had more capabilities and features. But from version 6.0 and 6.5 VMware has put more…
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Install & Configure: VMware ESXi Hypervisor 6.5
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…
