Installation GuideVMware ESX Server 2

Installation Guide10 VMware, Inc. Conventions and AbbreviationsThis manual uses the style conventions listed in Table P-2. Abbreviations Used in Grap

Installation Guide100 VMware, Inc. 14 Read through the end user license agreement and check I have read and accept the terms in the license agreement

VMware, Inc. 101Chapter 4 Remote and Scripted Installations 16 Enter a name for the virtual switch in the Virtual Switch Name field. Before virtual m

Installation Guide102 VMware, Inc. 20 Assign each network adapter to a virtual switch. Choose a virtual switch from the pull-down menu next to the ne

VMware, Inc. 103Chapter 4 Remote and Scripted Installations If you have a license for VMware Virtual SMP for ESX Server, enter that serial number in

Installation Guide104 VMware, Inc. Allocate the PCI devices. Specify the following:! Enter the Bus, Slot, and Function values using hexadecimal numbe

VMware, Inc. 105Chapter 4 Remote and Scripted Installations ! In the Type list, select the type of file system. Choose from vmfs, vmcore, ext3, and s

Installation Guide106 VMware, Inc. 28 Click Create Swap File to create the swap file. The new swap file appears in the Configured Swap Files list. 29

VMware, Inc. 107Chapter 4 Remote and Scripted Installations 31 Click Download Floppy Image to create a floppy disk image. ! Save the file as an image

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VMware, Inc. 109Index IndexDDevice driverinstalling 66FFibre Channel 14GGuest operating systemsupported systems 18HHardwareinstalling on server 61Har

VMware, Inc. 11Preface Technical Support and Education ResourcesThe following sections describe the technical support resources available to you:! “S

Installation Guide110 VMware, Inc. er 2.0 65from previous version of ESX Server 63User groups 11VVMware community forums 11

Installation Guide12 VMware, Inc. VMware Education ServicesVMware courses offer extensive hands-on labs, case study examples, and course materials de

VMware, Inc. 13 1The following sections list the requirements for running ESX Server.! “Server Hardware Requirements” on page 13! “Maximum Physical

Installation Guide14 VMware, Inc. ! 512MB RAM minimum! Two or more Ethernet controllers. Supported controllers include:! Broadcom® NetXtreme 570x and

VMware, Inc. 15Chapter 1 System Requirements Enhanced Performance Recommendations! A second disk controller with one or more drives dedicated to the

Installation Guide16 VMware, Inc. VMware File System (VMFS)! 128 VMFS volumes per ESX Server system! Maximum physical extents per VMFS volume! VMFS-2

VMware, Inc. 17Chapter 1 System Requirements Remote Management Workstation RequirementsThe remote workstation is a Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Wind

Installation Guide18 VMware, Inc. Supported Guest Operating SystemsFor information regarding which guest operating systems are currently supported in

VMware, Inc. 19Chapter 1 System Requirements Virtual SCSI Devices! Up to 4 virtual SCSI adapters per virtual machine with up to 15 devices per adapte

VMware, Inc.3145 Porter DrivePalo Alto, CA 94304www.vmware.com2 VMware, Inc.Installation Guide You can find the most up-to-date technical documentati

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VMware, Inc. 21 2The following sections describe how to install and configure ESX Server:! “Before You Begin” on page 21! “Installing ESX Server” on

Installation Guide22 VMware, Inc. ! VMkernel modules, which provide support for high-performance device I/O and allow run-time addition of functional

VMware, Inc. 23Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server Installing ESX Server on Storage Area Networks (SANs)ESX Server supports installing an

Installation Guide24 VMware, Inc. 2 Power on the machine with the VMware ESX Server CD in the CD-ROM drive. The ESX Server begins its boot process.3

VMware, Inc. 25Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 4 Press enter. The Welcome screen appears.5Click Next. The Installation Type screen ap

Installation Guide26 VMware, Inc. The Welcome screen lists three options:! Install Default – Performs a full installation and destroys any saved info

VMware, Inc. 27Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 9Click Next. The Mouse Configuration screen appears.10 Choose the correct mouse type f

Installation Guide28 VMware, Inc. 11 Click Next. The End User License Agreement screen appears. 12 Read through the end user license agreement and se

VMware, Inc. 29Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 13 Click Next. The VMware ESX Serial Numbers screen appears. 14 Enter the ESX Server s

VMware, Inc. 3 ContentsPreface 7Welcome to VMware ESX Server 7How VMware ESX Server Works 8About This Book 9Quick Start 9Intended Audience 9Document

Installation Guide30 VMware, Inc. 17 Configure the service console. This includes reserved memory, SCSI storage controller, Ethernet controllers, and

VMware, Inc. 31Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server ! SCSI Storage Controller – Allocate storage adapters to be used by the service consol

Installation Guide32 VMware, Inc. 18 Click Next. The Disk Partitioning Setup screen appears.19 Select the type of disk partition: Manual Partitioning

VMware, Inc. 33Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 20 Click Next. If you selected Automatic Partitioning, the Partitioning screen lists t

Installation Guide34 VMware, Inc. If you selected manual partitioning, the Disk Setup screen lists only the drive and the amount of available space.W

VMware, Inc. 35Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 23 Create the first partition. Set the mount point of /boot, the type to ext3 and the

Installation Guide36 VMware, Inc. The default amount of memory assigned to the service console is 192MB, which is appropriate for managing up to eigh

VMware, Inc. 37Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 27 Click Next on the partitioning screen to continue. The Network Configuration screen

Installation Guide38 VMware, Inc. 29 Click Next. The Time Zone Selection screen appears.30 Select your time zone.

VMware, Inc. 39Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 31 Click Next. The Account Configuration screen appears. 32 Specify your root password

Installation Guide4 VMware, Inc. Virtual Processor 18Virtual Chip Set 18Virtual BIOS 18Virtual Memory 18Virtual SCSI Devices 19Virtual Ethernet Cards

Installation Guide40 VMware, Inc. 35 Click OK. The User Account Setup screen appears. From the User Account Setup screen you can add, delete, or edit

VMware, Inc. 41Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server After the packages are installed, the Congratulations, ESX Server Installation Complet

Installation Guide42 VMware, Inc. To install ESX Server1 Verify the network cable is plugged into the Ethernet adapter that you are using for the ser

VMware, Inc. 43Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 5 Press Enter to continue. The Welcome screen appears.6 If necessary, acknowledge any

Installation Guide44 VMware, Inc. The Installation Type screen lists three choices:! Default – Performs a full installation and destroys any previous

VMware, Inc. 45Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 10 Click OK. The Mouse Selection screen appears.11 Choose the correct mouse type for y

Installation Guide46 VMware, Inc. 16 If you have a license for VMware Virtual SMP for ESX Server, enter that serial number in the ESX Virtual SMP Ser

VMware, Inc. 47Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 21 Click OK. The Service Console Reserved Memory screen appears.22 Select the default

Installation Guide48 VMware, Inc. 24 Define how to partition your disk(s). The Disk Partitioning screen lists two choices for the type of disk partit

VMware, Inc. 49Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server If you selected automatic partitions, the Partitioning screen lists the partitions ESX

VMware, Inc. 5 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on HP Blade Servers 70HP Blade Server Hardware Requirements 70Configuring ESX Server on HP Proli

Installation Guide50 VMware, Inc. 30 Create the first partition. Set the mount point of /boot, the type to ext3 and the size to 50MB.31 Create the se

VMware, Inc. 51Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server The amount of memory to be reserved for the service console increases to 272MB for 16

Installation Guide52 VMware, Inc. 34 Click OK on the partitioning screen. The Network Configuration screen appears. Enter the information for network

VMware, Inc. 53Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 35 Click OK. The Time Zone selection screen appears.36 Select your time zone. 37 Click

Installation Guide54 VMware, Inc. 40 Add at least one user.You need accounts for all users who need to log in to the VMware Management interface to c

VMware, Inc. 55Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 43 Click OK. The Installation to Begin screen appears and displays the location of the

Installation Guide56 VMware, Inc. To accept the certificate, follow the steps in the appropriate section below or take the equivalent steps for your

VMware, Inc. 57Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 2 To accept the certificate for this session only, click Yes. The Certificate Login sc

Installation Guide58 VMware, Inc. 4Click Next to start the wizard. The Certificate Store screen appears.5 Select Place all certificates in the follow

VMware, Inc. 59Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server Accepting the Certificate for a Netscape Navigator 7.0 BrowserWhen you connect to the

Installation Guide6 VMware, Inc. Mounting Floppy Drives from the Command Line 85Mounting Floppy Drives from the VMware Remote Console 85Installing an

Installation Guide60 VMware, Inc. 4Click OK to continue. Depending upon your browser settings, a security warning message may appear. 5Click OK. The

VMware, Inc. 61Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 3Click Continue. A dialog box appears, warning of a domain name mismatch.4 You can ign

Installation Guide62 VMware, Inc. The Startup Profile page appears.3 Assign the new devices to the virtual machines by selecting Virtual Machines in

VMware, Inc. 63Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server Installing Hardware for Use by the Service ConsoleAfter you install additional hardwar

Installation Guide64 VMware, Inc. If the virtual machine is suspended, resume it in the earlier release, shut down the guest operating system, then p

VMware, Inc. 65Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server Upgrading from ESX Server 1.5.2 or ESX Server 2.x.xTo upgrade from ESX Server 1.5.x or

Installation Guide66 VMware, Inc. Installing Additional Drivers from the VMware Driver DiskVMware provides a driver disk for a device that is not han

VMware, Inc. 67Chapter 2 Installing and Configuring ESX Server 5 If you have a driver disk from VMware, put the driver disk into the floppy drive and

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VMware, Inc. 69 3You can deploy VMware ESX Server 2.5 on a variety of hardware, including blade servers (blades). This chapter contains the followin

VMware, Inc. 7 PThis preface describes the contents of the Installation and Upgrade Guide and provides pointers to technical and educational resourc

Installation Guide70 VMware, Inc. Installing and Configuring ESX Server on HP Blade ServersFor a list of blade servers supported with ESX Server, see

VMware, Inc. 71Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers SAN StorageFibre Channel SANs are the preferred storage media for ESX

Installation Guide72 VMware, Inc. Provide enough physical memory to prevent virtual machine swapping from being a significant performance issue. Depe

VMware, Inc. 73Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers Mounting a USB CD-ROM DeviceHP blades use a USB-based CD-ROM drive. V

Installation Guide74 VMware, Inc. To configure bond failover1 Log into the VMware Management Interface as root.2Click the Options tab, then click Adv

VMware, Inc. 75Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers Local SCSISome blade systems have SCSI peripherals that can be attach

Installation Guide76 VMware, Inc. VMotionFor you to use VMotion, all blades in a VirtualCenter farm need access to the same logical unit number (LUN)

VMware, Inc. 77Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers Installing ESX on IBM BladeCenter1 You must install ESX Server on the

Installation Guide78 VMware, Inc. Installing ESX Server on Additional Blades Once you install ESX Server on a system, you can quickly deploy or provi

VMware, Inc. 79Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers Use RDM to boot a pre-configured ESX Server installation image. This

Installation Guide8 VMware, Inc. Ideally suited for corporate IT and service provider data centers, VMware ESX Server allows you to:! Implement serve

Installation Guide80 VMware, Inc. 5 Add the ESX Server boot disk image to the RDM server.By default, RDM is installed in C:\Program Files\IBM\RDM. We

VMware, Inc. 81Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers 7 Create an installation task.a In the right “task” column of the IBM

Installation Guide82 VMware, Inc. Using NIC Teaming on IBM Blade ServersIBM blade servers have two physical network interface cards (NICs). NIC teami

VMware, Inc. 83Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers 5 Reboot ESX Server for your changes to take effect unless you are cr

Installation Guide84 VMware, Inc. Configuring Bond Failover on IBM Blade ServersDue to how IBM HS20 and HS40 blade servers detect network connection

VMware, Inc. 85Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers Determining the Floppy Drive on a Blade ServerWhen an IBM blade power

Installation Guide86 VMware, Inc. Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Intel BladeCenterFor a list of blade servers supported with ESX Server 2.5

VMware, Inc. 87Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers SAN StorageFibre Channel SANs are the preferred storage media for ESX

Installation Guide88 VMware, Inc. VMotionFor you to use VMotion, all blades in a VirtualCenter farm need access to the same logical unit number (LUN)

VMware, Inc. 89Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers Installing ESX Server on Intel BladeCenterFor a list of blade servers

VMware, Inc. 9Preface About This BookThis manual, ESX Server Installation Guide, describes how to install and upgrade the ESX 2.5 Server and access t

Installation Guide90 VMware, Inc. Installing ESX Server on Additional Blades Once you install ESX Server on a system, you can quickly deploy or provi

VMware, Inc. 91Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers 3Create the bond. Using vi or a similar text editor, edit /etc/vmware

Installation Guide92 VMware, Inc. 3 Configure the physical ports on your external switch (not the switch on BladeCenter) to be trunk ports that suppo

VMware, Inc. 93Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring ESX Server on Blade Servers To determine the location of the floppy drive, you need to count the

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VMware, Inc. 95 4The following sections describe how to install ESX Server using remote and scripted installations:! “Scripting Your Installations”

Installation Guide96 VMware, Inc. Configuring ESX Server for Scripted InstallationsTo support scripted installations, you need to configure your ESX

VMware, Inc. 97Chapter 4 Remote and Scripted Installations In addition, you need access to the ESX Server installation files. The files can be on the

Installation Guide98 VMware, Inc. ! Click CD-ROM to install from the CD-ROM on the local CD-ROM drive on the new system. ! Choose NFS to perform a ne

VMware, Inc. 99Chapter 4 Remote and Scripted Installations 13 Under Root Password, specify the root password. Enter the root password in the Password