Log into your vSphere Web Client and click Menu – Content Library. Click the plus sign to add a new Content Library Add a Name and Location Select a Local Content Library if you wish to upload ISOs, OVAs, and other templates. Select your storage location, I use my local Freenas NFS Store. Click Finish …
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How to Install vRealize Operations
First step is to obtain the vRealize Operations Manager Appliance and install it via your VMware server. Once the Appliance is uploaded and the installation is complete you will see the below screen on your VM. Once you go to the URL you will find the Initial Setup screen. I chose new Installation and started …
How to Apply Updates to VCenter 6.0
Starting after Update 1 for VCenter 6.0 you are able to update your Vcenter from the Web Interface. Unfortunately for me, I have pre-version one installed so I need to update via SSH. First step is login via SSH to your VCenter as the Root User using your SSO Administrator User and password Next you …
How to Install VSphere Appliance 6.0
There is only so many installations of a Windows or Linux box you can do before you ask yourself if there is any easier way to do this. In order to use templates and automate your VM building tasks, one of the choices is to use Vsphere with a variety of tools that plug in …
No 10gbe NICs showing in VMware 6.X with X10SDV-7TP4F
When I started building my VMware ESXi server, I did not have a Switch that could handle 10Gbe SFP+. Now that I have a Dell X1052, I figured I would cable up a 10Gbe DAC and get moving. Much to my surprise, I received a link light on the switch, but not on the motherboard. …
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Easy ESXi Patch Updates
If you are not familiar with v-front.de and you have a ESXi servers, you are really doing yourself a dis-service. v-front.de maintains a repository of all ESXi updates and makes it very easy for you to update your servers when the newest patches come out. Lately I have been having a series of interested GUI crashes …
Cannot Create Datastore on VMware ESXi 6.5
I have been in the process of rebuilding my Plex Server and restoring the data. I popped in four 4TB WD Red NAS Drives and attached them to my 12G Controller. I figured it would be easy to create a datastore across the Raid 5 Drive and contine on my way. Unfortunately that was …
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Hardware Passthrough in VMware ESXi 6.5
VMware ESXi 6.5 continues to improve the simplicity of using its platform more and more as new editions come out. Today I’ll show you how simple it is to passthrough a hardware device to a VM. In this case we are going to passthrough the motherboard disk controller, and LSI 2116 to a VM in …
How to Configure your Datastores in ESXi 6.5
Another basics posts for those of us who have not had the experience of installing and configuring ESXi 6.5. Today we will configure our Datastores. Once we have logged into our ESXi client web page, click on Storage and the Datastore Tab The initial Datastore is the media that you installed your ESXi “OS” on. For …
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How to Add a Physical Nic to a Virtual Switch
With my brand new VMware ESXi Installation, it takes some time to configure everything to your liking and to best practices. ESXi 6.5 is not shy about warning you when you do not have redundancy or something configured as it should. With my setup I have two 1Gbe NICs but ESXi only configured one NIC as …
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