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The first task is to download the necessary software

Before I begin the software download I want to acknowledge three websites that were vital in the creation of the lab environments

The first is virtually ghetto William land provides not only the script that will be using but also

A nested esxi virtual appliance that makes the installation much quicker

The second website is virgin.net this is an excellent resource for building home labs

In addition to the gigabyte Brix that I'll be using he also provides information on the Intel knocks the Mac Mini and a

HP microserver is very common servers for small home labs

So go down to the gigabyte Brix no I don't actually need to download anything from here there's a lot of information on you

Using this device in a home lab and what is necessary for us to build a custom esxi image

Down here is a list of all of the updates that will need to make

Particular drivers that need to be installed

And the third side is VMware front experience this site provides the custom bibs that will be using for

Car installation because not all the hardware that were using is officially supported by VMware are sometimes you're going to need

Custom packages in order to proceed with the installation

So we'll start off at the VMware website so that we can download the evaluation software if you don't

Have a my VMware login you can go ahead and register down here

Now I've already started and evaluation so I can see it listed down here but if I didn't have an evaluation list that I could

If I can start new eval

VMware vsphere

And there'll normally be an option here to start a new evaluation

Since I already have one started I can click on download Trial missile take me to the screen where I can download all of us

Now what I will need from here

Is the vcenter server image

4 Lenox

Click on manually download

And as you can see these are very large images and they will take a while to download

Now in addition I could download the offline bundle or the iso image if I want to save those for later but they're not

Not necessary for this install because we're going to access them through image Builder

Next

I need to go to virtually ghetto

And download

The 6.5 virtual Appliance

Scroll down

To the OVA

And that has started

And then I also need to download the actual script

I'm going to be using

The standard lab deployment meaning that we are not going to install vcenter server on one of our nested yet

Esxi host a little bit slower than

Script is pretty small

Right click on it to save

The last thing that I need from here is powerseal I was actually a link to VMware but

It's convenient to

Now I get if I logged out I'll have to log back in at this point but since I'm already in

I can download the power CLI installer

Make sure that its release 6.5

There's a couple of other tools that are going to make this process easier

The first one is Rufus this is a small utility for creating a bootable USB drive

And I usually use the portable version and doesn't have to be installed

And in the final tool is putty

Putty is an SSH client that allows for us to connect into all of our devices

The final two pieces that I'm going to need

Are available in the exercise files

And that's the control center VM files and the Linux VM files this is just a vmdk and an OVA

Send an MMS file that we can use to create the necessary virtual machines

Next up will start with image Builder