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Now that I have the image copied over to the USB drive I can insert it into the back of the gigabyte Brix

And boot it into the esxi install

But before doing so there's a couple of settings that I need to check in the Bios the first one under advanced

CPU configuration

I need to verify that the Intel virtualization technology is enabled it should be by default so that one should be okay

Underside of configuration I need to verify that the Sada mode says ACI instead

Set of raid by default it'll probably be set to raid so you do have to double-check this one

On the bricks

Next I need to check the boot settings

I need to make sure that my first boot option is the USB drive and if I'm going to install to the SSD then I need

Need to make sure that the second boot option is the UEFI version of the disc notice it shows up twice once as uef

Define wants is Peachtree

If it's selected is P3 then it's not going to boot properly I'm going to install it onto the u.s.

SB drive that I'm using to do the install so the second boot option never matters

Save and exit

Yes

And it should not boot up into the esxi installer

You may run into a problem at this point if it says something about can't load the video driver

Verify that the resolution of your monitor is not set to high

I want to press enter to continue

F11 to accept

License agreements

Now this point all of your sex is installed into memory so I can install back to the same day

Disc that I just use to load esxi

This frees up the entire SSD for me to use as a vmfs volume to hold virtual machines

It does have existing data I want to go ahead and write it

For the root password

I'm going to use VMware one bang for all of the passwords

If there is any possibility of your loud environment being exposed to the public I recommend using strong pass

Passwords

Press f11 to confirm the install

Once the installation is completed it's asking me to remove the installation media but since I just recorded

All right there's no need to do that all I need to do is hit enter to reboot

Once the esxi host is it it'll bring us to this yellow and gray screen that's referred to as the DCU

Why are direct console user interface from here we can do the initial configuration by pressing F2

Type in the password that we sent

The first thing that we want to do is configure the management Network

The real Nick zero is sufficient it's the only adapter that we have on the bricks

We don't want to settle VLAN in most cases if you do have the ability to create vlans in your environment and you do have the

Option of doing so

We need to change the IP version 4 configuration right now it is set to Dynamic so it picked up that I

IP address off the network and that can work in many situations however because it can change later on

It's nice if we can set it to something static just make sure that is not being used anywhere else in your environment

I want to change this

And I can verify that that isn't being used anywhere else by doing a

Press enter and then we need to edit the DNS configuration

This information originally came from the DHCP server so that should be sufficient however I want to change the hose

Hostname here because this is my physical host I'm going to call it p e s x i

654 the version - 1 just in case I later went out of second one

And I'm going to be using lab. Local as my domain

Princess Kate

And it's going to verify that we went to apply the changes and restart the management that works at y for yes

I want to go down to troubleshooting options

I want to enable the esxi shell

And enable SSH give us a warning later on but it does allow for us to have faster access to the house

Post now I can press alt F1 and I can log into the host

And I can verify that my routing is working yes XE if she - rap. She'll to look at the route

And then I can try to change the default router

Now that I can ping the router

That's all we have to do from the console of esxi host not everything else we should be able to do through the weather face

Visser 6.5 no longer supports the Windows Vista her client so we use the new built-in web interface

Manage the esxi host

To access the web interface

We simply go to the IP address

Of the esxi host

It'll give us a warning about the connection not being private because we don't have a CA sign certificate

Proceed past that

Cancel login screen comes up will login as root in the password we specified during install

The built-in interface looks very similar to vcenter server so it should be

Easy-to-navigate will close out all of the warning messages here

And the first thing you want to do is add our data store

So quick on new datastore created new

Vmfs datastore

Who named it after the esxi host

Go to default partitioning options

I knew datastore should show up in the list

The next thing we want to do is create a Newport group to add are virtual esxi host to

There's two reasons for creating a Newport group one is if we were using vlans we could put it on a separate V

The second reason is the security settings

Because we're going to be running a esxi host on this poor broke we need to allow promiscuous mode

As well as Mac address changes and forged transmits

I'll call it host Network click on ADD

And now we're ready to begin installing the components of our lab environment