We set the password to the user 'root' and future manager, Select the keyboard language we are using & Enter, And especially avoid having connection to the SAN, It is recommended to remove the hoses of the optical fiber to avoid possible human errors. It may be normal to see more than one disc, WATCH OUT.
We select the local disk to install ESXi. Select the image to install ESXi in boot & press Enter,
We will see the simple steps you need to install ESXi, We introduce the CD recorded with ISO and begin! You have a free version and if you want to try all the features, do you have 60 days!
If you want to download ESXi, we may use this link the web oficial VMware. We enable Intel-VT or AMDV, and HyperThreading. The installation will be done locally, While local console or iLO or the like. We confirm that the host and hardware are on the list of VMware Hardware Compatibility, in its HCL. The process is simple and just 15 minutes have mounted hypervisor, we can dump the ISO image to a bootable USB UNetbootin or Rufus.
We can install ESXi on a local SD device, USB, SAS, SATA, SSD, LUN. We will continue with other documents that will make us grow and optimize our environment!
Though ideally, if you do have unused devices, you should definitely disable them in the BIOS if you have the option.This is the first document in a series of posts where we will see how to deploy and seamlessly set up a platform for VMware vSphere 6.5, in this document we will see the simple installation of the ESXi hypervisor, plus a short walk through the basic configuration with DCUI and grant your Host Client to manage virtual machines and their. Now you can play hide and seek with your vmnic's without resorting to a system reboot or touching the BIOS. For ESX, you can place it in /etc/rc.local without having to do anything extra as the changes persists across reboots for classic ESX You will also need to run /sbin/auto-backup.sh to ensure the changes to /etc/rc.local are saved and reloaded upon the next reboot. You will need to add the following lines to /etc/rc.local which will execute the disabling of the vmnic's after bootup. If you would like to automatically persist this change across reboots, specifically for ESXi as changes are not saved. Again, you can easily re-enable by passing it back to the VMkernel I found that you need to pass the vmnic from VMkernel to Console, passing it to passthru/VM will not work and an error is thrown if you do. If you are trying to do this on ESX, vmkchdev actually has an additional option called " console" for the Service Console.
This trick actually works on both a used and unused vmnic Your vmnic should now re-appear on all your screens and any existing NIC teams that may have exists is automatically restored. If you would like to enable or re-present the disabled vmnic, you just need to pass the device back over to VMkernel by using the " -v" flag. Here is an example of an unused physical nic vmnic1 that we would like to disable and unpresent to an ESXi host. It seems that it is just masks the device away from the VMkernel as you can still see the active configuration in esx.conf and you can see the device listed using vmkchdev. What I found while testing the utility is by passing it over as a passthrough device, the vmnic is actually unrepresented to the VMkernel and does not show up under network adapters or even the unused/unlinked adapter list in the vSwitch configurations. You should test this out in a development/lab environment before using and you may want to also contact VMware support to get their blessings*** I decided to dig a bit to see what I could find and stumbled upon a neat little utility called vmkchdev (VMkernel Change Device?) and from what I can tell provides a method passing a particular device to be controlled by either the VMkernel or as a passthrough device to a virtual machine (think VMDirect Path).ĭisclaimer: Please note, this is using an undocumented utility. Due to the specific hardware version, disabling the vmnic through the BIOS was not an option and there were no alternatives from the discussion. There was another interesting thread today on the VMTN community forums about disabling an unused vmnic from an ESXi host due to false alarms being generated from HP SIM.