Now the cluster has been configured and we have storage attached using iSCSI. Lets create a VM. Upload ISO to Cluster Datastore In vCenter, move over to the Datastore tab on the left hand side: You should see the Datastore we configured in the last part. In my case its Read more…
Now, the cluster is partially setup. As there is no space to hold any VM’s the vSphere Cluster Service VMs cannot be provisioned. We will complete the configuration on the first host in this guide. Creating a new vSwitch for iSCSI To begin, under the cluster, click on the first Read more…
Now we have the networking setup on the hosts, we can configure the cluster within vCenter. On the main vCenter dashboard, right click on the Datacenter we created previously: Click on ‘New Cluster…’. The new cluster Wizard should appear: On the Basics page, we need to give the cluster a Read more…
In this part we will configure the network connections for each ESXi host in vCenter Configuring the vSwitch Click into the host on the left hand pane: On the top bar, click into the Configure tab: Click on the Virtual switches option under Networking, you should see the default vSwitch: Read more…
Now we need to add the 3 ESXi Servers into vCenter. First we need to open and login to the vCenter web interface: https://lab-vcenter01.lab.local/ui Adding a Datacenter We should see the dashboard once we have logged in: First, we need to add a datacenter before we can add hosts. Right Read more…
Now we have the vCenter VM setup, its a good time to get the iSCSI VM setup done so this can be added as storage to the cluster when it is created. VM Configuration The VM has 8GB of RAM an 2 vCPU’s as standard on a Windows Server 2019. Read more…
In this part, we will setup the vCenter Virtual Appliance to manage the 3 ESXi hosts. Deploying the vCenter Virtual Appliance You need to download the ISO for this before you can install it, you can get a trial from this link: Download VMware vSphere – My VMware. Once you Read more…
In this part, we will verify that all 3 ESXi hosts are setup correctly and then setup DNS records on lab-dc01 to point at the relevant IP addresses. ESXi Host Verification First of all, we need to make sure that we can login to each hosts web interface. I will Read more…
I this part, we will setup the 3 ESXi hosts. Firstly, here is a photo of what the Virtual Network Adapters page looks like in VMware Workstation: On the ESXi hosts, I have them configured as below: This is the same specification used across all 3 hosts. Installing ESXi 7.0.0 Read more…
This is the first part in a series of guides on how to get a cluster setup with VMware ESXi and vCenter. This first guide shows what my environment looks like and how I plan for it to look. Host Hardware Due to hardware constraints, each of the ESXi hosts Read more…