What?
What's going on, guys?
It is Bernardo.
And today is all about installing VMware
vCenter version 8, so let's get right into it.
Oh, sorry.
Eating some blueberries.
so today is all about deploying VMware vCenter version
8, So this is how I did it.
Now, the first thing that we need to do is
you got to create A record, so I have a DNS server
I went inside my Active Directory within here I went inside DNS manager.
I right clicked.
I went to new host A record
and I provided a name and I gave it vCenter, right.
My full qualified domain name is going to be vCenter dot btnhd dot edu.
Very important.
You got to make sure you have
an internal DNS server working for vcenter to work properly now.
In the past I've dealt with vCenter.
If you do not have an A record on DNS
working properly, vCenter won't install correctly.
So past experience, make sure you do in an A record.
Now the IP address that I'm going to provide is 192.168.1.130.
Just click on Add the host record vcenter dot btnhd dot
edu was successfully created, just click okay and there goes our record.
Now let's go inside the folder
where I have VMware 8.0 ISO.
I'm going to right click on that particular file.
I'm going to pick on seven zip and I'm going to extract the files
and click, okay, here.
Now I'm using seven zip to extract all the files.
Once that's done, I'm going to double click on that folder.
And within this folder I'm going to go inside the VCSA folder
and you're going to see the OVA. Now
I noticed that using the
OVA and importing it in to your ESXi Hypervisor
or into your workstation, you're going to have a lot of problems.
So this is how you fix those problems.
It looks like VMware has changed the way of
importing this particular vCenter into your infrastructure.
It's kind of weird, but this is how I did it.
Now we're going to go inside the ovf tool folder, right their we're going to double
click on it.
We're going to go inside the Win32 and within this folder I'm going to hold
the shift key and right click anywhere inside the folder to get this nice prompt.
Now I'm going to click on Open PowerShell windows here.
Now the command that we're going to use is the following.
We're going to use the OVF tool, dot exe file.
We're going to give it the path of where that OVA file is located.
And then we're going to give it another path and convert that OVA file
to an OVF file, so hit enter here.
It's going to give you all this gibberish which is good and it's going to
give you a nice little progress bar.
And once it's completed we should get this completed successfully.
Awesome that OVF file is created for us.
So if you go inside that folder, you're going to see our new OVF file.
Awesome.
Now the next thing, we need to do
is delete that MF file, that manifest file that was created for you.
So just make sure you right click on it and delete it.
Now we're going to select our OVF file.
We're going to right click on it and I'm going to open it up within Notepad
Plus plus and I'm going to do a control F and we need to locate
this particular parameter and it's going to be upgrade dot import.
So just click on find next and you're going to locate it.
Now we need to make some modifications here because if you import the OVF file,
or the OVA you're going to have a lot of problems.
It's so weird.
One of the problems is if you try to do a new installation,
it's going to think it's doing an upgrade.
It's ridiculous.
So we're going to change the parameter
where it says user configurable to true.
So we're sas false delete it and just convert it to true save the file.
Once you save the file, open up your VMware workstation.
Now I'm using VMware Workstation 16.0.
I think that's the version that I'm using right now on this particular machine.
We're going to click on file,
we're going to click on Open and we're going to locate our
OVF file.
So select it click on open
and you're going to get the import virtual machine end user license agreement.
So we're going to accept the license terms we're going to click on next.
We're going to provide our virtual machine a name
and a path on where we want to drop it.
So I gave it the following.
So we're going to click next here and pick your flavor.
There's so many types of deployment options because I'm running
a small shop and I'm running everything on a laptop.
I pick the default one, which is the tiny vcenter
server with embedded PSC.
So that's what I selected and I clicked on next.
And it's time for you to configure this section here.
So provide the IP address the network mode,
network IP
address prefix, default Gateway, all that.
Finally. So this is what I gave you.
The address family is going to be ipv4.
It's going to be a static.
I gave it the following IP address.
It's the same IP address
that I used earlier at the beginning of the video with my A record.
The prefix is 24.
It is running a subnet of 255.255.255.0
That is why it is using 24.
And the default gateway is the following.
And the DNS is pointing to my Active Directory
as well as I'm using Google's DNS.
Why not?
And the host network identity is the full qualified domain name
that I use for my A record.
Once you do all that, we're going to click import
and it's going to start importing.
Now, once you import this particular OVF
file within your VMware workstation,
by default, the network connection is going to be a bridge.
So I had a lot of problems.
I wasn't able to contact or talk to my Active Directory
with the subnet that it was providing.
So I actually had to go inside the virtual machine settings and change it to a NAT.
Once I applied it, it was working with no problem.
Now check this out.
You have to change the root password
because without the root password you can't continue with the setup.
So once you get here, we're going to press F2
and it's going to want you to enter a new password.
So enter your new password, confirm the pass.
Hit Okay. And it's going to take you here.
We're going to click on the Escape Key to log out because we're done.
Now open up your favorite browser.
I open up Chrome and we're going to type in the IP
address of that hypervisor.
Make sure you're using the port of 5480.
As you can see right here and just hit enter.
It's going to load this.
Your connection is now private you know it's legit.
Click advanced.
Click on proceed to whatever IP address your hypervisor is
and it's going to take you here. It's going to prompt you for your password.
So just into the password.
Click on, log in and then you have four options.
Now the option that I want is set up because we're setting up
a new vCenter Server. So click on setup.
We're going to click next here.
And if everything works well, all the settings that you did
when you were importing that, OVF file into your VM workstation should be here.
So just make sure everything is correct.
The only thing that we need to do is change the time mode
and give it access to your SSH, right.
Change it, good to go click next.
Now it is time to configure your single sign on configuration.
So I give it the following.
I gave vsphere dot local.
You can give it whatever you want
and then I gave it a password, then confirm it and then click next here.
I am not going to join the VMware Customer Experience
Improvement Program, so uncheck that I click next here
ready to complete a nice little summary and summary looks good
we're going to click finish i's going to give you a warning, so just click, okay.
It's going to go do its thing.
I kind of walked away.
I got a cup of coffee when I came back.
It gave me this. It reloaded itself to that.
I was like, Oh, my God, it failed. It did not fail.
So don't freak out. Just click on advance.
Click on proceed to whatever IP address your vCenter is.
It's going to take you here, provide the password, log in.
If it logs in with no problem, it's going to reload and take you
to the VMware Center Server Management.
Again, this right here is with the port of 5480.
So it's going to take you directly here.
So just sign in, click log in and bam.
I think the only warnings that I had was the memory I might have to bump up
this virtual machines memory a little bit.
I think by default it gives you around 13.4 or 14 gigs,
but best practices give it a little bit more now
open up a new tab and now type in the IP address of that hypervisor.
Your vCenter Server hit enter.
It takes you here.
This is a good thing.
So click on launch the vSphere client it's going to take you back to
the connection is not private crazy click on advance.
Proceed to whatever full qualified domain you had.
If you see your full qualified domain, that is awesome.
That means your DNS server is working the way is supposed to work.
That's how it's supposed to work.
So click on it. It loads up.
It takes you to this portal right
here, VMware vSphere, so just insert your username and password.
Remember you're single sign on and click on login and it takes you here.
This is a good thing.
I think on the next video
I'm going to attach all my hypervisors to my vCenter and start playing around.
I think I need to license this vCenter and that's it.
Hopefully you guys enjoy this video and I catch you guys on the
next one, peace out.