What's going on guys it is Bernardo from the BTNHD and today you and me.
Me and you are going to configure vCenter 7.0, and let's get right into it.
Alright so like I said before you and me Me and you.
Together, we are going to be installing 7.0 vCenter.
I'm actually using the OVA file.
You got to download the ISO extract the ISO and within the vcsa folder, there is the OVA
file, it's pretty big.
Right now next thing that we need to do is configure our environments, right.
So we need to get our DNS make sure you have an A record with whatever name you want your
vCenter to be called with an IP address and make sure it is in reverse lookup right now
I have vCSA, which is A record which is pointing to 192.168.1.120, we're going to load up your
ESXi because I want to load this OVA in here and we are going to go inside virtual machines.
Click on Create or register a virtual machine, and we are going to pick on deploy a virtual
machine from a OVF or an OVA file.
We have the OVA file so that is what we are going to pick, click on Next, you're going
to give your virtual machine a name and then from here you're able to drop that OVA file
in there, or just click on it, it's going to open up a nice little dialog box to navigate
to where you have the OVA file located.
You're going to select it, click on open, and there goes, Okay, and click Next.
Pick your storage.
Click next there.
From here you're going to click on I agree for the end user license, and then click on
I agree again for the copyright statement, and then click on Next.
And then provide your network mapping, and what type of deployment type you want.
Now for my environment, it might be different for you guys is that you might do large or
extra small or extra large, but for my environment, I'm going to pick tiny and tiny is basically
10 gigs of memory two processors, which each processor is going to have, you know, five,
five gigs each, and the storage is going to require about 415 gigs of disk space that's
not that bad.
And I also made sure that the disk provisioning was set Thin.
Right.
And I think by default, it is checked off to power on automatically once the configuration
is done behind the scenes.
And for my network, I'm actually mapping it within a NAT network that I have on my server,
once you configure everything with your lab you're going to click on Next.
And now it's time to configure it.
Now there's a couple of sections that we are going to pay more attention to then the others.
We're definitely going to click on the network configuration you're going to provide your
network IP address, family, the network mode, your IP address the prefix the default gateway
the DNS server and your network identity.
Now I entered all that information as the following.
And it might be different for your environment, right but this is what I gave from my environment
and the next thing that we need to configure is the SSO configuration the single sign on,
and click on the little drop down, give the directory password and then confirm it.
And then we need to also configure the system configuration give it root password and then
confirm it.
Then you also have upgrade configuration if you're upgrading, an existing vCenter.
You also have miscellaneous, and then you also have networking properties, right, again,
configure it the way that you are going to configure it within your lab but for me, I
only configure the network properties.
The single sign on, and also the system configuration password.
Click Next.
You get a nice little review.
From here I forgot to take a screenshot you are going to get a nice warning stating that
one of the hard drives is just an extra is not going to be used during the deployment
so don't freak out about that.
Once you click finish here at the very bottom of the recent tasks, you're going to see that
only two hard drives, right two virtual hard drives are going to be created for you.
Again, that little preview said three but only two of them right so don't freak out,
and then you're also going to see the process of importing them vApp this process takes
a while.
So just take a chill pill go grab a cup of coffee go grab lunch, take a walk, go to something,
and eventually when you come back.
You should see completed successfully within the recent tasks and your virtual machine
should be automatically started up, your able to click on console then click on launch remote
console, you're going to get this so click on Connect anyway, it takes you here, be patient.
Eventually is going to start loading up all the services, and it's going to take you here
and this is a good thing actually gives you the website that you need to go into to start
configuring. to the configuration of the configuring.
So if you open up your favorite browser and type in your fully qualified domain, or even
the IP address and make sure you port it to 5480.
And once you hit enter it is going to take you here click on advanced proceed to the
following web address, and now we need to continue the setup so we are going to click
on setup, provide the root password, we already finished stage one and now we need to do stage
two, so click on next here.
Make sure that the vCenter Server configuration is correct, the IP address the prefix everything.
And once you're happy Click on Next.
From here you're going to provide a single sign on domain as well as a password then
confirm it.
Once you're done with that, click on Next.
This is up to you if you want to join the experience Improvement Program leave it checked
off if not, uncheck it and click on Next.
It's ready to complete double check everything.
Click on Finish, it's going to give you a nice little warning click OK, it's going to
start processing itself, It's going to give you this.
This process takes a while.
Just be patient.
And once you're done you should get this, and it tells you to go to the particular web
address so when you click on Close the VMware vCenter Server Management has like a timeout.
So it timed out and logs you off just open up a new tab, type in that new web address
to go to port 443 hit enter and then you're able to launch your vSphere Client within
an html5 environment which is pretty cool now the only problem that I've been having
with vCenter 7.0 is when I click on launch vSphere Client html5, it takes me to a page
stating that no healthy upstream.
It looks like 7.0 has a bug.
I'm still waiting for VMware to fix that problem.
Overall, it looks like the installation was successful, when I log into the VMware appliance
management, everything is healthy.
I just can't log into the portal to create virtual machines, and that's it guys hopefully
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Peace out.