What's going on guys it is Bernardo and today we are taking the thinksystem SE350 edge
server from Lenovo, and we are actually going to install VMware hypervisor 7.0.
So let's get right into it alright so today we are going to take our SE350, and we need
to install an operating system.
So the first thing that I did was download VMware hypervisor 7.0 as the first thing that
we need to do.
Get that file downloaded somewhere I dropped it inside the desktop and good to go.
Now we need to take that ISO and burn it into a flash drive.
I took a flash drive I plugged it into the machine, and it's the E drive.
Good to go.
Now, next thing that we need to do is open up a utility that allows us to burn that ISO
into the flash drive.
Now, I like to use Rufus.
And as you can see on the desktop I have Rufus three point, 11, so if you double click on
it to open it up this is when you get automatically Rufus is going to pick my E drive which is
the flash drive.
All I need to do is click on select and all I have to do is locate and select that ISO
on the desktop and click on open next thing we need to do is click on Start, and you get
this nice little warning click yes here, you're going to get this nice little warning that
is going to destroy everything inside that device click OK, it's going to start copying
and creating the file system within that flash drive and once it's done, boom it's going
to say, ready, all you need to do is close it and open up the file explorer and there
goes our E drive that E drive is actually a flash drive, which has our VMware bootable
file that allows us to boot into the environment to install the operating system.
And that's what we are going to do right now.
Alright so we got the flash drive right here we just finished installing our ESXi 7.0 into
the flash drive.
Awesome.
We are going to insert the flash drive on the front USB of the SE350.
See if I could find it right here.
there's two of them so we are actually going to install it.
Right here.
Awesome.
We're going to turn on the SE350 power button is right here at the very top, where this
blinking little button right here we're going to press it.
I'm going to power it on.
We're going to go inside
the xclarity controller
and configure the boot menu to boot into that.
So we can start installing our operating system.
And then we should be good to go.
Awesome.
So when I'm going to wait here for a while, until I see the BMC information on the monitor.
And then we're going to head to
the lab and continue.
Alright, so it's up and running, I see my IP address.
Let's go over and continue.
Okay, so we inserted the flash drive within the thinksystem SE350, we need to find a machine
that's part of the same network as that server, and type in your IP address of that BMC configuration
which allows you to get into the xclarity controller, you're going to provide the username
and password the username all caps is USERID, and the password the default password is password
all caps, but the O is actually a zero and hit login, it's going to take you here, and
the first thing that we need to do on your left hand side we need to click on server
configuration.
And within here go to Boot Options and within Boot Options, you're going to see that available
devices is a USB storage device, which is what we just inserted on the server.
Awesome.
We are going to select it, and we're going to click on the arrow to move it to your right.
Now before you do anything we need to move that USB device to the top of the boot order.
So go all the way to the bottom, select it, and you're going to click on the up arrow
until the USB storage device is the first one on the boot order.
Now the next thing that we need to do is click on Restart server immediately, click Apply.
And then from here click ok alright so we're going to run over to the server, and the reason
why is because I do not have a remote console x controller licensed to actually manage everything
on the web portal.
So we actually got to go over to the server and press F 11 and enter to continue the installation.
Alright so the server already rebooted I ran over here.
And we're just waiting until it boots inside the flash drive.
This guy over here.
And then we could configure it now.
Typically I would configure the server.
I do all the installation within the xclarity controller, but to do remote session.
Using xclarity
controller, you have to purchase a license.
So that's out the question.
All right, so it's booting into the flash drive which is awesome.
Super excited about that.
We are going to let it load up.
Now on this video I am actually going to install the operating system on that flash drive again
this flash drive was the flash drive that we actually created the bootable drive.
And I'm going to take this flash drive and install the operating system
on that flash drive.
Typically I do two flash drives, but today.
I'm just going to use one flash drive.
Once it loads up I shouldn't have any problems I did check the VMware compatibility website
on the SE350 edge server from Lenovo, and it was compatible with ESXi 7.0, that is the
first thing that you should do, make sure that the operating system that you're pushing
out on your server is compatible.
Alright, so I finally prompted for me to continue the installation I'm going to hit enter.
So I'm going to hit Enter on the keyboard.
It wants
me to accept the license and agreement
you actually have to press F11 on the keyboard.
F11, boom, it is going it is scanning looks like it's going to work.
Okay, so we are at the part that it wants me to select a partition, or a location where
to install the operating system.
I'm actually going to pick this guy right here which is the sandisk, and it is the fourth
option.
And we are going to hit Enter to Continue.
They want you to confirm the disk selection so I'm going to hit ENTER again.
And from here it wants you to pick your keyboard layout which is us default.
I'm going to hit Enter.
And it is time for me to enter a password.
So I'm going to give it a generic password.
Once you enter your new password and you confirm it we are going to hit Enter on the keyboard
it's going to prompt you this dialog box to confirm the install, we are going to definitely
press F11 to continue.
And it is going to install ESXi 7.0 on the 350 from Lenovo actually the SE350 edge server
from Lenovo alright so the installation of the ESXi 7.0 within the SE350 is finished.
Right behind the scenes I added an additional Ethernet cable which is this guy right here.
The red one is actually for the xclarity controller.
This cable right here will actually allow us to manage our ESXi server.
So from the menu, a wants me to hit Enter.
And it's about to start rebooting the server.
Alright so we are back as you saw the installation was successful and the next thing that we
need to do is just take the IP address, open up a new browser tab enter the IP address
and just login to your new of the VMware hypervisor.
As you can see within the boot order that your USB device is going to change.
So this basically means every time your machine restarts, it's going to automatically restart
inside that flash drive.
By default, and that's it guys hopefully you guys enjoy this video make sure to hit that
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