I was a 0 in VMware vSphere installation & configuration before I watched this video, and now thanks to you, I know at least something about the app without ever having worked on it even once. Thanks
Bro I had zero idea on installing a hypervisor even after I had taken a pretty intense course on virtualization. Thanks a lot for this, I can feel the Hypervisor on bare-metal!
I tried burning the iso on a usb flash drive with balena etcher. It gave error. That there is no file syatem on this image and it may not boot. Then i went on a wondows machine and instlled rufus and it also gave the same error but then it also said that to repair this i can press yes to continue to download a file to rufus and that will fix the issue. So i did click on yes. And it then made a usb bootable. Now my problem is that when i boot from that USB, it starts the installer. With that yellow loading bar on the. Top. But it lands up on an error. Shutting down firmware services Error allocating 0 pages: out of resources Failed to shutdown Unrecoverable error What should i do? Any help will be appreciated
Awesome video! You guys do an excellent job explaining and providing a step by step detailed explanation on setting up ESXi. I enjoy your videos detailing the behind the scenes videos and tutorials. If you guys can make a future video about the vms on your new server, like you did with you older server, that would be awesome! Keep up the great work and I look forward to your future videos! Wanted to ask, any recommendations on a good and compact case for a future NAS build?
kudos...straight to the point. thanks for this video been using old versions of esxi and was looking for a quick dive into esxi 7 am more than impressed
If your server supports it, you can boot the hypervisor from an SD card or an internal USB drive, saving a hard disk to be used as a datastore. ESXi needs at least 1 GB, so a 8 GB USB or SD card is more than enough.
That's a great video, very detailed and well edited. I was wondering could you show how to install a Vsphere client on the Esxi And supposed I have a Vms on an external hard disk that I want to connect to the Esxi machine, How do I do that?
Technically speaking, vCenter is the central orchestration software, vSphere is the overall suit of different products that encompass VMware’s virtualization portfolio which included ESXi, but the point is taken.
Thanks , am looking to the knowledge as I have completed VMware course months back so just a good refresh, and further more there I have interview as a cloud engineer, tomorrow exactly, so just in time to renew , refresh and reknow my understandings on VMware especially on esxi host.
Much appreciated! We just released an updated video for installing ESXi 8! Check that out if you're thinking about going with the latest and greatest from VMware!
I tried burning the iso on a usb flash drive with balena etcher. It gave error. That there is no file syatem on this image and it may not boot. Then i went on a wondows machine and instlled rufus and it also gave the same error but then it also said that to repair this i can press yes to continue to download a file to rufus and that will fix the issue. So i did click on yes. And it then made a usb bootable. Now my problem is that when i boot from that USB, it starts the installer. With that yellow loading bar on the. Top. But it lands up on an error. Shutting down firmware services Error allocating 0 pages: out of resources Failed to shutdown Unrecoverable error What should i do? Any help will be appreciated
How do I fix this error message "Requested malloc size 186096144 failed, caller offset 0xefeaeef3 Fatal error: 10 (Out of resources)"? I'm using windows 10 on a lenovo pc. Thanks in advance
I have ESXI setup on an old mini PC which has one NIC. The idea is the use it for a VM firewall and maybe a SIEM. All of my endpoints are configured on my desktop. Basically I want the traffic and networking to be handled by the ESXI as I dont want to bottleneck my PC. Has anyone setup this sort of configuration. One problem I am having is networks on the ESXI server cannot reach networks in Vmware on my desktop. I have Palo Alto VM setup on ESXI, configured the interfaces both on the firewall and in ESXI. On the VMware I have configured the networks and attached them to the endpoints. one endpoint on vmware and another on exsi are on the same network. 192.168.20.X. but they are unable to communicate with one another. Anyone ever set up something like this before or have any tips on how to fix this issue.
Unfortunately, you can't. To utilize a disk in ESXi as place to storage VM workloads you'll need to have it formatted in VMFS and mounted as a datastore. That being said, there are other means of passing through disks to VMs using hardware passthrough, but that ties the disk to a specific virtual machine only. HTH! Thanks for the comment!
Wow, the video is well detailed and helpful. Please i have a quest, how do i replace a physical HDD that is faulty from a VM running ESXi. need help cause kind of lost here, i could see the HDD indicating RED but how to replace it is the problem.
Awesome tutorial! You mentioned "internal USB sticks". I'm not familiar with the term, are you referring to a Supermicro SATADOM? A unique MoBo front header pin connection?
You show ESXI installer installing. I downloaded the zip file. Extracted the zip. However I cannot figure out how to run the ESXI installer? I see many 'voo' files and a couple 'tgs' files. What's to do to make the installer run? Thanks
I agree, ESXi is the best hypervisor out there, hands down. I've tried Hyper-V and XEN. They are not even close. The best way to become a fan of one of the others is to not work with and understand ESXi. Once you've spent time with ESXi, what you learn is what Hyper-V cites as an advantage over ESXi, is actually one of their own shortcomings. Hyper-V is like the dumb blonde. It looks good but has nowhere near the stability or smarts.
You, sir, are preaching to the choir! I will say however, the one thing that ESXi lacks in comparison to other virtualization platforms out there is the native container support. The 'AIO' systems like unRAID and Proxmox do have the added benefit of being an all-in-one setup for people running #homelabs. And that's only possible because they're built on top of a full Linux kernel. VMware's secret sauce is and has always been it's purpose-built virtualization-only hypervisor. Runs in RAM, super small footprint, and is truly enterprise-grade. Thanks for the comment, consider subscribing!
Thank you for sharing this video. However, I have a question! I'm trying to install VMware ESXi 7 U2/U3 on a HPE Proliant DL360 Gen10 server. I have 2 x 1.92 TB SSDs installed and 1 6248R Processor with 32Gb RAM. I want to achieve ESXi installation on the RAID 1 logical drive. I successfully create the RAID 1 logical drive. However, during ESXi installation, the logical drives are not appearing as a destination drive option. What should I do? Which specific VMware ESXI 7 U2/U3 image file should be using?
Great question! This sounds like it's an issue of ESXi either not having driver support for your RAID card or possibly that the RAID card in your host isn't a hardware RAID but actually a software RAID, which VMware doesn't support. Here's where I'd start first - Since you're installing ESXi on an HPE server, download and use the customized ISO from HPE. www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/hpe-esxi.html (just find the version of ESXi you wanna install, download, and then follow our USB install instructions from the video.) Big vendors like HPE, Cisco, Dell, etc. build VMware ESXi ISO installs that contain drivers specific to their gear that may not be in the generic ESXi install ISO that VMware produces. It's the same version of ESXi that you'd get from VMware with the added value of having the drivers for the specific hardware from the vendor. Best of luck! Thanks for the comment and consider subscribing!
Can you elaborate here? I'm not sure what you're asking. vCenter runs as a virtual appliance inside of an ESXi host. See if you can't clarify your question a bit more and we'll do our best to answer!
Great video. I'm having an issue with sound. Installed created a vSphere VM in VMW workstation Created an Ubuntu VM in vSphere - boots up and works great but there's no sound What did I miss?
If you're using Workstation, you'll need to add audio hardware to your VM. It's been a loooong time since I used Workstation so I'm not even sure that is an option anymore. Good luck!
Hello i have a question about type 1 hypervisors. If i wanted to install drivers on it is that possible and can i just do that in dom0? I need this because i want to use qubes os which is an os that is built on the xen hypervisor.
This is a complicated question to answer - specifically because it really depends on the hypervisor you're using. If we're talking about ESXi then additional driver compatibility is very limited. VMware breaks down drivers into 3 categories: VMware-supplied, Vendor-supplied, and Community-supplied. VMware-supplied drivers are straight from the source, vetted and guaranteed to be safe and reliable (typically). Vendor-supplied drivers are drivers that VMware considers safe and the hardware vendor has tested and vetted to work with ESXi. Community-supplied drivers have no guarantee of reliability or vetting and can put the system at potential risk. In recent versions of ESXi VMware has been making moves to limit and in some cases even remove the ability to load community-supplied drivers. Because Qubes-OS is based on Xen, you'd have to see what Xen will allow to load as far as hypervisor-level drivers are concerned. Unfortunately we can't really speak to that since we've not played around with with Qubes-OS (but we're going to now!) Thanks for watching and consider subscribing! All the best!
@@2GuysTek thanks for the elaborate answer i appreciatie it! Cool to hear you're gonna take a look at it. I think qubes is really great if you are very serious about your privacy. Downside is that the os is resource hungry and gaming on it is almost out of the question since it also doesnt have hardware acceleration due to security concerns. Because its so heavy on resources i bought a more powerful laptop for it so once that arrives im also gonna be able to play around with it :D
As i will be also using a usbdrive for esxi, can i install it on a different machine and move the drive after installation, before first boot to the server?
But how do you boot off the disc? I was trying to upgrade to 7.0 from 6.5 and now I get the hyper visor recovery mode bank 5 and 6 are not configured and no hypervisor installed
I have a Openmediavault server running on a 3900x w 32 gb ecc ram and a GTX 2080. Can I convert this to a VM, maintain the RAID6 array and install ESXi in place of the server then spin up the VM? I would love to have a vm win 10 machine for gaming....
In theory, yes. There's a lot of questions that would need to be answered first like, are you planning to keep the RAID array intact as-is or are you planning on having ESXi use the RAID array for datastore volumes? Also, you'll need to verify that your RAID card is supported by ESXi. At a minimum though, if you blew everything apart and ran ESXi on the host, you could have a VM of OMV running to serve your home media like it does now, and you could have a Windows 10 VM running concurrently with you passing the 2080 GPU and some USB ports directly to the VM for game playing - Then you'd just connect the monitor to the 2080, and the mouse and keyboard to the passed through ports and you're off and running. That makes it sound easier than it is though - but it is doable.
@@2GuysTek thanks! Been searching for the best way to do this. Since I have a RAID 6 70TB Array with 40TB of data I really want to preserve it. Also since OMV is running great with multiple dockers I am wanting to convert this to a vm. I am thinking it would be good to take the 1tb ssd with OMV and once it's converted to a vm use it to with another 1TB SSD to store the VM's.
i have a question... i followed this pretty much exactly... i am running this in a VM just like in the video... however i was trying to install a windows 10 client instead of linux. When i go to run the VM, the window pops up where it would normally show the VM, but it says "Failed To Connect". In the thumbnail window, i can see it updates to the screen where it asks to press any key to enter setup, but for some reason the actual VM window just says failed to connect. After a while of just staying on, the VM thumbnail will eventually update to show the boot manager screen, but when i click on it, the pop-up window just says it fails to connect.. Is there a network setting or something i am missing? i have followed this guide exactly the same... wanted to make sure i was getting this correct before actually putting on a physical machine to tinker with to get experience. Thanks.
not sure if this helps, but when the VM is running, i can click on Launch Remote Console and it will open a new tab in VMWARE and i can then view the VM normally... however, when i click to open the browser console, it opens the new window and says "Failed To Connect" so this lends me to think it is a network issue or something since it won't open through Microsoft Edge browser?
@@2GuysTek i mean, i just wanted to see what esxi was all about since i am a hyper-v person but to date hyper v doesnt support nesting with amd processors without running a preview build of windows to get version 9.3. I was running esxi under vmware workstation. I get it is a type 2 hypervisor and is slower but it is all i can get amd nesting to work with on a windows platform that i have access to so i can install it and mess around during a trial. Your guide also showed esxi running under a vm so it was nested as well. Only difference i guess is that my host had bitdefender installed which basically took over blocking access to the https and then the vms through the NAT. Looks like it is a common issue.. although i dont mind turning it off for a bit when just messing around with esxi. The reason i would use nesting at home and why we use it at work (via intel) os for software development since we run our development stations in vms and they also need to emulate devices like android. I had heard esxi supported nesting with amd, and wanted to check it out but not completely have to throw together a machine to use it.
My ESXi is an HP ProLiant DL380 G6, only support ESXi 6.5 though:( Not sure if I could get newer CPUs that will be supported by my server and ESXi 7.0.1.
@@2GuysTek Just an update on that, I actually got a Cisco UCS C240 M3, and it is a freaking BEAST of a server! I can do a Windows Server install in less than 5 or 10 minutes, it's that quick!
Thank you for your good video. 6:33 Please let me know how you define the static IP address is 192.168.8.16 ? Could you tell me how can I find out the IP address?
You can define your static IP address for the management interface from the console directly. Or via the web GUI if you know the DHCP address of the ESXi box.
@@2GuysTek thanks for your reply. Sorry for the stupid question, but how would I connect the console for the management interface directly if I don't have any devices except my laptop? Can I define myself the static IP address in the range of private IP addresses arbitrarily like 192.168.1.2 or 192.168.1.3 (if available) and so on? Which Web UI are you referring to? I still have not installed any ESXi
I am facing an issue while installation of esxi 7.0....it is not showing storage....it is only showing the USB which contains ISO of esxi.....can any body help me???? I tried to install esxi 6.5 which works properly
What’s is your storage hardware in the host? It’s possible you have an unsupported storage controller. VMware ESXi doesn’t support software RAID implementations, just in case that’s something you’re attempting to do. Best of luck and consider joining our discord! There’s always help there!
@@2GuysTek Is there any possibility to install Esxi 7.0 with unsupported CPU?? i have tried below mentioned link but the issue is i am unable to get storage where i want to install. It shows only USB which contains ISO of Esxi 4sysops.com/archives/vsphere-7-0-unsupported-cpus-and-esxi-7-0-hardware-requirements/
What CPU are you attempting to install ESXi 7 on that isn't supported? Also - your missing storage is not likely related to the CPU compatibility. To get to that point in the install you're already beyond the point that you would be prevented from installing ESXi due to CPU compatiblitiy.
Sorry, to be clear - You'll install ESXi directly using a USB stick and connect a keyboard and monitor to the host you're install ESXi on. After the installation is complete then you'll use a different PC to connect to the web UI of your installed ESXi host. To produce the installation USB stick for ESXi you'll need another PC with a browser to download the ISO from VMware, and using Rufus (an ISO to USB flashing tool we mention in the video) you'll create your installation media. The video walks you through that process, but don't hesitate to ask if you have questinos!
Neither. When you write the ESXi ISO file to your USB stick using Rufus, it will be 'formatting' it at the same time. The ISO file is an image, and that image will be written to the USB stick, overwriting any data already on the USB stick.
@@nonope9355 No. Once you've connected to the WebUI you can use the virtual console in the web browser to access your VMs virtual console. The WebUI is your management interface to all things virtualized on your system!
Well then how is type 1 hypervisor "bare metal" when you can only access the VM's through a second pc? Sorry for all the questions, just genuinely interested and can't find many answers online.
@@nonope9355 Correct. ESXi as an OS is extremely lightweight, and requires very little in terms of computer, storage, and RAM to run. This is by design to leave as much of the available hardware free for VMs. So all interactions you have with it will be done through the management WebUI or directly to the VMs themselves. For example, if you're running Windows in a VM, you could use RDP (remote desktop) to get a desktop from your Windows VM, or use the 'zero console' from within the ESXi WebUI. If it's a Linux VM you could always SSH into your command line environment or install and use VNC to get a remote desktop. Hope that helps!
You can give this fling a try: flings.vmware.com/usb-network-native-driver-for-esxi But for the most part you're right - VMware adheres to a rather stringent HCL (hardware compatibility list) to guarantee it's reliability and uptime for production. That excludes a lot of cheaper PHYs on the market.
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I was wathing many videos about VM Esxi but didnt get so detailed explanation like in your lesson. Now I have VM lab and can go forward
Thank you Man!
Simple, to the point, no fluff, fast, works for me. 👍
Really glad this helped! Check out our video on how to update ESXi too! It’s quick and easy too! Thanks for watching and consider subscribing!
I was a 0 in VMware vSphere installation & configuration before I watched this video, and now thanks to you, I know at least something about the app without ever having worked on it even once. Thanks
Let just say my YT subscriptions are a curated selection of the best out there, you guys are now on it. Keep up the excellent work.
thank you guys 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻, it was awesome, I'm still waiting for your NAS server building 😂.
Really liked the video. Short video with whole bunch of information. Fast and no lag... Well explained. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Bro I had zero idea on installing a hypervisor even after I had taken a pretty intense course on virtualization. Thanks a lot for this, I can feel the Hypervisor on bare-metal!
Outstanding! That's a pretty resounding endorsement of the video! Thanks for the comment and consider subscribing!
@@2GuysTek I hit the subscribe button halfway through the video 😃 this is a very educative channel . Thanks and keep up the good work.
I tried burning the iso on a usb flash drive with balena etcher. It gave error. That there is no file syatem on this image and it may not boot.
Then i went on a wondows machine and instlled rufus and it also gave the same error but then it also said that to repair this i can press yes to continue to download a file to rufus and that will fix the issue. So i did click on yes. And it then made a usb bootable. Now my problem is that when i boot from that USB, it starts the installer. With that yellow loading bar on the. Top. But it lands up on an error. Shutting down firmware services
Error allocating 0 pages: out of resources
Failed to shutdown
Unrecoverable error
What should i do?
Any help will be appreciated
Awesome video! You guys do an excellent job explaining and providing a step by step detailed explanation on setting up ESXi. I enjoy your videos detailing the behind the scenes videos and tutorials. If you guys can make a future video about the vms on your new server, like you did with you older server, that would be awesome! Keep up the great work and I look forward to your future videos! Wanted to ask, any recommendations on a good and compact case for a future NAS build?
Thanks for the feedback! How compact are you thinking? Like a mATX or ITX size?
Most likely mATX size. Keep up the awesome content!
Mate - This is totally awesome. You absolutely made this easy to absorb and understand.
Love hearing this! Glad you found it useful! Consider subscribing!
kudos...straight to the point. thanks for this video been using old versions of esxi and was looking for a quick dive into esxi 7 am more than impressed
Thanks! Consider subscribing!
If your server supports it, you can boot the hypervisor from an SD card or an internal USB drive, saving a hard disk to be used as a datastore. ESXi needs at least 1 GB, so a 8 GB USB or SD card is more than enough.
This is the best video i ever seen..... cover everthing...
That's a great video, very detailed and well edited.
I was wondering could you show how to install a Vsphere client on the Esxi
And supposed I have a Vms on an external hard disk that I want to connect to the Esxi machine,
How do I do that?
ESXi is the hypervisor, vSphere is the central orchestration software. Came here for the vSphere returned empty handed.
Technically speaking, vCenter is the central orchestration software, vSphere is the overall suit of different products that encompass VMware’s virtualization portfolio which included ESXi, but the point is taken.
Informative and thank you. I for one, appreciate the work you put in to this.
Thanks , am looking to the knowledge as I have completed VMware course months back so just a good refresh, and further more there I have interview as a cloud engineer, tomorrow exactly, so just in time to renew , refresh and reknow my understandings on VMware especially on esxi host.
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Awesome man. I love the way you describe whole installation process. Great Work bro
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tjee man, after 17 min you took a breath. You are talking like a robot, but your info is very good. ))
Gotta keep up! Lots to talk about! :-) Thanks for watching!
Thank you. Helps me understand ESXi. Nowcan you explain what is vSphere?😐
Very clear & consise. Keep up the great work!
Much appreciated! We just released an updated video for installing ESXi 8! Check that out if you're thinking about going with the latest and greatest from VMware!
Thank you very informative, nothing left out for getting started
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome videos , hope more on other VMware installation and it's understandings..
Great video, It really helped with the configuration of the vmware server.
Thanks, very clear and clean video.
You're welcome!
Damn! Thank you! very straight forward with no fluff thanks for the information
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@@2GuysTek subscribed!
At 7.03 i could'nt figure it out that,cuz i use single machine .. ..So could you please give me any other way to easily understand
You forgot the part where it doesn't recognize the Ethernet driver 😂😂😂
Ah yes, the VMware HCL is a strict one! Best pick up a simple Intel NIC for your build!
Great stuf guyz! Thanks.
Glad it helped!
I tried burning the iso on a usb flash drive with balena etcher. It gave error. That there is no file syatem on this image and it may not boot.
Then i went on a wondows machine and instlled rufus and it also gave the same error but then it also said that to repair this i can press yes to continue to download a file to rufus and that will fix the issue. So i did click on yes. And it then made a usb bootable. Now my problem is that when i boot from that USB, it starts the installer. With that yellow loading bar on the. Top. But it lands up on an error. Shutting down firmware services
Error allocating 0 pages: out of resources
Failed to shutdown
Unrecoverable error
What should i do?
Any help will be appreciated
Thank you Sir, it was so helpful and fun to hear you explain..
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I’m looking to set up a light gaming ESXi host server. Would love to see how to hw passthrough a gpu and if possible a dedicated NVME drive.
Supppperbb!!! Thank you so much for this much information.
Thank you very much for this video ,
Awesome video. I am subscribed
Excellent guide
very informational, thankyou
Can you do a part 2 to install vCenter? Preferably not using Windows.
How do I fix this error message "Requested malloc size 186096144 failed, caller offset 0xefeaeef3 Fatal error: 10 (Out of resources)"? I'm using windows 10 on a lenovo pc. Thanks in advance
I have ESXI setup on an old mini PC which has one NIC. The idea is the use it for a VM firewall and maybe a SIEM. All of my endpoints are configured on my desktop.
Basically I want the traffic and networking to be handled by the ESXI as I dont want to bottleneck my PC.
Has anyone setup this sort of configuration. One problem I am having is networks on the ESXI server cannot reach networks in Vmware on my desktop.
I have Palo Alto VM setup on ESXI, configured the interfaces both on the firewall and in ESXI. On the VMware I have configured the networks and attached them to the endpoints. one endpoint on vmware and another on exsi are on the same network. 192.168.20.X. but they are unable to communicate with one another.
Anyone ever set up something like this before or have any tips on how to fix this issue.
Great content! Thank you so much! Is there a way to mount SATA HDD/SSD to the ESXi bare metal server without formatting/wiping them?
Unfortunately, you can't. To utilize a disk in ESXi as place to storage VM workloads you'll need to have it formatted in VMFS and mounted as a datastore. That being said, there are other means of passing through disks to VMs using hardware passthrough, but that ties the disk to a specific virtual machine only. HTH! Thanks for the comment!
Great video
That was a very good video. Do you have anything with installing, configuring, and using vCenter?
Not at the moment, we weren't sure there was interest in vCenter videos. Looks like we're wrong! We'll add it to the list!
When I add my license key every feature disappears....?
Excellent job!
Wow, the video is well detailed and helpful. Please i have a quest, how do i replace a physical HDD that is faulty from a VM running ESXi. need help cause kind of lost here, i could see the HDD indicating RED but how to replace it is the problem.
An excellent video....absolutely great
That was an excellent tutorial!!
Glad to hear! Make sure to check out our tutorial on how to patch ESXi (and subscribe!)
Awesome tutorial! You mentioned "internal USB sticks". I'm not familiar with the term, are you referring to a Supermicro SATADOM? A unique MoBo front header pin connection?
Many workstations and server motherboards will have an internal USB port for plugging in a USB stick to use a boot device.
Thanks ! On other videos I've seen people installing vm and datastore on the same SSD. But it was on 6.7, is it possible to do it on 7 ?
You show ESXI installer installing. I downloaded the zip file. Extracted the zip. However I cannot figure out how to run the ESXI installer? I see many 'voo' files and a couple 'tgs' files. What's to do to make the installer run? Thanks
You need to download the ISO and create a bootable USB stick to install ESXi. We walk you through this in the beginning of the video.
Great!
Hey, when i go to add new datstore and select device, nothing is listed except 'no devices available with free space'.. why am i getting this error?
What are your storage devices?
Excellent video. Instant subscribe
Outstanding! Thank you for watching and subscribing!
please share any link to download VMware tools.
This is very good thanks for your time
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I agree, ESXi is the best hypervisor out there, hands down. I've tried Hyper-V and XEN. They are not even close. The best way to become a fan of one of the others is to not work with and understand ESXi. Once you've spent time with ESXi, what you learn is what Hyper-V cites as an advantage over ESXi, is actually one of their own shortcomings. Hyper-V is like the dumb blonde. It looks good but has nowhere near the stability or smarts.
You, sir, are preaching to the choir! I will say however, the one thing that ESXi lacks in comparison to other virtualization platforms out there is the native container support. The 'AIO' systems like unRAID and Proxmox do have the added benefit of being an all-in-one setup for people running #homelabs. And that's only possible because they're built on top of a full Linux kernel. VMware's secret sauce is and has always been it's purpose-built virtualization-only hypervisor. Runs in RAM, super small footprint, and is truly enterprise-grade.
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Just wondering how you can get a browser session setup if all you have is one system and it has just gotten ESXI installed. That is up to time 7:03
I'm using my desktop to access the web admin site, not the ESXi host that was built.
Awesome.....!! keep it up
#10 upvote. 👍
Thank you kindly Hugh!
Thanks a lot Sir!!!
Very Detailed...!
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Fantastic 👍👍👍👍👍
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Merci pour cette vidéo combien intéressante.
merci pour le gentil commentaire et d'avoir regardé!
Great Video. How did you create the second ESXI running on your VM ? Did you use a type 2 Hypervisor to do that ?
Nope! ESXi will happily run a VM of ESXi! It’s a bit of inception, but believe it or not that’s how VMware does it’s training as well.
So after doing like in the video can i finally add passthough to my nvdia gpu? it's a gtx970 btw
This video doesn't touch on pass through, only the installation of ESXi.
For once, the software is actually really useful
Thank you for sharing this video. However, I have a question!
I'm trying to install VMware ESXi 7 U2/U3 on a HPE Proliant DL360 Gen10 server.
I have 2 x 1.92 TB SSDs installed and 1 6248R Processor with 32Gb RAM.
I want to achieve ESXi installation on the RAID 1 logical drive.
I successfully create the RAID 1 logical drive.
However, during ESXi installation, the logical drives are not appearing as a destination drive option.
What should I do? Which specific VMware ESXI 7 U2/U3 image file should be using?
Great question! This sounds like it's an issue of ESXi either not having driver support for your RAID card or possibly that the RAID card in your host isn't a hardware RAID but actually a software RAID, which VMware doesn't support. Here's where I'd start first - Since you're installing ESXi on an HPE server, download and use the customized ISO from HPE. www.hpe.com/us/en/servers/hpe-esxi.html (just find the version of ESXi you wanna install, download, and then follow our USB install instructions from the video.) Big vendors like HPE, Cisco, Dell, etc. build VMware ESXi ISO installs that contain drivers specific to their gear that may not be in the generic ESXi install ISO that VMware produces. It's the same version of ESXi that you'd get from VMware with the added value of having the drivers for the specific hardware from the vendor.
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If you are going to use VCenter, do you put your guest O.S. in the esxi like you did Linux or do you add Vcenter and put it inside Vcenter?
Can you elaborate here? I'm not sure what you're asking. vCenter runs as a virtual appliance inside of an ESXi host. See if you can't clarify your question a bit more and we'll do our best to answer!
Great video. I'm having an issue with sound.
Installed created a vSphere VM in VMW workstation
Created an Ubuntu VM in vSphere - boots up and works great but there's no sound
What did I miss?
If you're using Workstation, you'll need to add audio hardware to your VM. It's been a loooong time since I used Workstation so I'm not even sure that is an option anymore. Good luck!
but I can't figure out how to turn those softs into softs you know what I an
I literally have no idea what you're asking here.
Hello i have a question about type 1 hypervisors. If i wanted to install drivers on it is that possible and can i just do that in dom0? I need this because i want to use qubes os which is an os that is built on the xen hypervisor.
This is a complicated question to answer - specifically because it really depends on the hypervisor you're using. If we're talking about ESXi then additional driver compatibility is very limited. VMware breaks down drivers into 3 categories: VMware-supplied, Vendor-supplied, and Community-supplied. VMware-supplied drivers are straight from the source, vetted and guaranteed to be safe and reliable (typically). Vendor-supplied drivers are drivers that VMware considers safe and the hardware vendor has tested and vetted to work with ESXi. Community-supplied drivers have no guarantee of reliability or vetting and can put the system at potential risk. In recent versions of ESXi VMware has been making moves to limit and in some cases even remove the ability to load community-supplied drivers.
Because Qubes-OS is based on Xen, you'd have to see what Xen will allow to load as far as hypervisor-level drivers are concerned. Unfortunately we can't really speak to that since we've not played around with with Qubes-OS (but we're going to now!)
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@@2GuysTek thanks for the elaborate answer i appreciatie it!
Cool to hear you're gonna take a look at it. I think qubes is really great if you are very serious about your privacy. Downside is that the os is resource hungry and gaming on it is almost out of the question since it also doesnt have hardware acceleration due to security concerns.
Because its so heavy on resources i bought a more powerful laptop for it so once that arrives im also gonna be able to play around with it :D
this was great
Thx u so Much
Nice video. Specifications of the Hardware for installing the VMware?
docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-DEB8086A-306B-4239-BF76-E354679202FC.html#:~:text=ESXi%207.0%20requires%20a%20minimum,Gigabit%20or%20faster%20Ethernet%20controllers.
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As i will be also using a usbdrive for esxi, can i install it on a different machine and move the drive after installation, before first boot to the server?
In theory yes, though I've never done it.
@@2GuysTek Hmm, maybe an idea for a short? Ended up doing it the old fashioned way, i was to lazy to reboot my pc.
As of 2023 VM no longer recommended USB Sticks because of the changes to storage handling for ESXI 8.0 current Version of dec 2023
Thank you
Thanks learned a lot.
But how do you boot off the disc? I was trying to upgrade to 7.0 from 6.5 and now I get the hyper visor recovery mode bank 5 and 6 are not configured and no hypervisor installed
When you booted from the USB stick, did you select 'upgrade' or "install'?
@@2GuysTek upgrade
thank you
I have a Openmediavault server running on a 3900x w 32 gb ecc ram and a GTX 2080. Can I convert this to a VM, maintain the RAID6 array and install ESXi in place of the server then spin up the VM? I would love to have a vm win 10 machine for gaming....
In theory, yes. There's a lot of questions that would need to be answered first like, are you planning to keep the RAID array intact as-is or are you planning on having ESXi use the RAID array for datastore volumes? Also, you'll need to verify that your RAID card is supported by ESXi. At a minimum though, if you blew everything apart and ran ESXi on the host, you could have a VM of OMV running to serve your home media like it does now, and you could have a Windows 10 VM running concurrently with you passing the 2080 GPU and some USB ports directly to the VM for game playing - Then you'd just connect the monitor to the 2080, and the mouse and keyboard to the passed through ports and you're off and running. That makes it sound easier than it is though - but it is doable.
@@2GuysTek thanks! Been searching for the best way to do this. Since I have a RAID 6 70TB Array with 40TB of data I really want to preserve it. Also since OMV is running great with multiple dockers I am wanting to convert this to a vm. I am thinking it would be good to take the 1tb ssd with OMV and once it's converted to a vm use it to with another 1TB SSD to store the VM's.
i have a question... i followed this pretty much exactly... i am running this in a VM just like in the video... however i was trying to install a windows 10 client instead of linux. When i go to run the VM, the window pops up where it would normally show the VM, but it says "Failed To Connect". In the thumbnail window, i can see it updates to the screen where it asks to press any key to enter setup, but for some reason the actual VM window just says failed to connect. After a while of just staying on, the VM thumbnail will eventually update to show the boot manager screen, but when i click on it, the pop-up window just says it fails to connect..
Is there a network setting or something i am missing? i have followed this guide exactly the same... wanted to make sure i was getting this correct before actually putting on a physical machine to tinker with to get experience.
Thanks.
not sure if this helps, but when the VM is running, i can click on Launch Remote Console and it will open a new tab in VMWARE and i can then view the VM normally... however, when i click to open the browser console, it opens the new window and says "Failed To Connect" so this lends me to think it is a network issue or something since it won't open through Microsoft Edge browser?
nvm... apparently BitDefender is blocking this. Not sure why... looks like i will need to look into the settings more and figure it out.
Out of curiosity, why are you nesting your hypervisor? What hypervisor are you running ESXi under?
@@2GuysTek i mean, i just wanted to see what esxi was all about since i am a hyper-v person but to date hyper v doesnt support nesting with amd processors without running a preview build of windows to get version 9.3. I was running esxi under vmware workstation. I get it is a type 2 hypervisor and is slower but it is all i can get amd nesting to work with on a windows platform that i have access to so i can install it and mess around during a trial. Your guide also showed esxi running under a vm so it was nested as well. Only difference i guess is that my host had bitdefender installed which basically took over blocking access to the https and then the vms through the NAT. Looks like it is a common issue.. although i dont mind turning it off for a bit when just messing around with esxi.
The reason i would use nesting at home and why we use it at work (via intel) os for software development since we run our development stations in vms and they also need to emulate devices like android.
I had heard esxi supported nesting with amd, and wanted to check it out but not completely have to throw together a machine to use it.
how to use the CRX POD ?
My ESXi is an HP ProLiant DL380 G6, only support ESXi 6.5 though:( Not sure if I could get newer CPUs that will be supported by my server and ESXi 7.0.1.
6.5 is still fantastic and has a lot of supported life left in it!
@@2GuysTek Just an update on that, I actually got a Cisco UCS C240 M3, and it is a freaking BEAST of a server! I can do a Windows Server install in less than 5 or 10 minutes, it's that quick!
Awesome! UCS’s are great platforms! Enjoy it!
@@2GuysTek I updated my ESXi Hosts to ESXi 7.0.3 version F, and the UI is slightly changed a little bit lol
Thank you for your good video.
6:33 Please let me know how you define the static IP address is 192.168.8.16 ?
Could you tell me how can I find out the IP address?
You can define your static IP address for the management interface from the console directly. Or via the web GUI if you know the DHCP address of the ESXi box.
@@2GuysTek thanks for your reply.
Sorry for the stupid question, but how would I connect the console for the management interface directly if I don't have any devices except my laptop?
Can I define myself the static IP address in the range of private IP addresses arbitrarily like 192.168.1.2 or 192.168.1.3 (if available) and so on?
Which Web UI are you referring to? I still have not installed any ESXi
I am facing an issue while installation of esxi 7.0....it is not showing storage....it is only showing the USB which contains ISO of esxi.....can any body help me???? I tried to install esxi 6.5 which works properly
What’s is your storage hardware in the host? It’s possible you have an unsupported storage controller. VMware ESXi doesn’t support software RAID implementations, just in case that’s something you’re attempting to do. Best of luck and consider joining our discord! There’s always help there!
@@2GuysTek I configure RAID on the server.......R710 is the server with CPU X5550
@@2GuysTek Remember i told you that i have installed Esxi 6.5 on the same server......with same RAID
@@2GuysTek Is there any possibility to install Esxi 7.0 with unsupported CPU?? i have tried below mentioned link but the issue is i am unable to get storage where i want to install. It shows only USB which contains ISO of Esxi
4sysops.com/archives/vsphere-7-0-unsupported-cpus-and-esxi-7-0-hardware-requirements/
What CPU are you attempting to install ESXi 7 on that isn't supported? Also - your missing storage is not likely related to the CPU compatibility. To get to that point in the install you're already beyond the point that you would be prevented from installing ESXi due to CPU compatiblitiy.
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What hardware of DELL is the VMware esxi installed on?
If I understand your question, you will find a ESXi installed on dell servers like the R-series.
how do you get your license if you forget to write down?
Log back into your account, you can find it there.
#homelab
they have brought any free vmware free download yet
For some reason I lost my license and it says i downloaded it from a third party.... Dont know alot about this but something is not rite
And the posted link no longer works.
@@huskeyting746 just go here: my.vmware.com/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=free-esxi7 and sign up for an account and download a new key.
Chrome web browser already installed with ESXI or did you use another pc to log in?
You’ll need another PC to manage the web ui of ESXi.
@@2GuysTek Thank you for reply. So using another PC to install ISO into ESXi hard drive?
Sorry, to be clear - You'll install ESXi directly using a USB stick and connect a keyboard and monitor to the host you're install ESXi on. After the installation is complete then you'll use a different PC to connect to the web UI of your installed ESXi host.
To produce the installation USB stick for ESXi you'll need another PC with a browser to download the ISO from VMware, and using Rufus (an ISO to USB flashing tool we mention in the video) you'll create your installation media. The video walks you through that process, but don't hesitate to ask if you have questinos!
@@2GuysTek OK got it. On your usb drive do you format using NTFS or exFAT beforw download ESXi installer?
Neither. When you write the ESXi ISO file to your USB stick using Rufus, it will be 'formatting' it at the same time. The ISO file is an image, and that image will be written to the USB stick, overwriting any data already on the USB stick.
Do you open the browser on the esxi host machine and if so, how? I'm confused about this step, isnt it supposed to be bare metal?
Use another computer to access the WebUI of your ESXi installation, from there you can manage your hypervisor and VMs.
@@2GuysTek thanks, but do I need the second pc to use the VM's ? Or does the vm load up on a monitor connected to the server itself?
@@nonope9355 No. Once you've connected to the WebUI you can use the virtual console in the web browser to access your VMs virtual console. The WebUI is your management interface to all things virtualized on your system!
Well then how is type 1 hypervisor "bare metal" when you can only access the VM's through a second pc? Sorry for all the questions, just genuinely interested and can't find many answers online.
@@nonope9355 Correct. ESXi as an OS is extremely lightweight, and requires very little in terms of computer, storage, and RAM to run. This is by design to leave as much of the available hardware free for VMs. So all interactions you have with it will be done through the management WebUI or directly to the VMs themselves. For example, if you're running Windows in a VM, you could use RDP (remote desktop) to get a desktop from your Windows VM, or use the 'zero console' from within the ESXi WebUI. If it's a Linux VM you could always SSH into your command line environment or install and use VNC to get a remote desktop. Hope that helps!
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the vmware Hypervisor does not like realtek network cards ... for a home build that sucks !!!!
You can give this fling a try: flings.vmware.com/usb-network-native-driver-for-esxi But for the most part you're right - VMware adheres to a rather stringent HCL (hardware compatibility list) to guarantee it's reliability and uptime for production. That excludes a lot of cheaper PHYs on the market.
The VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle has password, what it is?
Download the ISO, not the bundle.