Installing vSphere 6.5

Installing VMware vCenter Server 6.5

Hello guys!!

In this post I'm going to show you how to deploy VMware vCenter Server 6.5.

Before to start We need to know the methods to Deploy:

• First Method

          vCenter Server with Embedded Platform Service Controller

          In this case the platform service controller is co-installed with the vCenter Server.           

• Second Method (I reccomend this option for Production Environments)

           vCenter Server with External Platform Service Controller

           

           In this case the platform service controller is a virtual machine diferent to the vcenter server                virtual machine.

           

In this case I'm going to Deploy the First Method.......

First you need this requirements:

• 1 IP for vCenter Server (Include PSC)
• 1 dns record in Microsof AD.
• 1 ESXI host.

Download the vmware vsphere virtual appliance in this link: https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/6_5

After of exceute vCSA installer ui give click in Install

Click in Next to Start...

Check the box to accept the EULA and click in Next to Continue

Select the deployment option in my case (vCenter Server with Embedded Platform Service Controller)

Fill the next information (IP address, user root and password) from the ESXi host

Password for the user root of the Virtual Appliance

Select the deployment size; this depence of the virtual machines and host that your going to manage.

Check Enable Thin Disk Mode and click in Next

Fill the next information and click Next

Finish to complete the deployment.

In this part click in Continue for the second part of the installation.

Click to Next

Fill the Next information (NTP, Enable SSH) click to Next

Fill the next information (SSO domain, password, site name) click to Next

Next to continue (I checked the VMware's customer experience but is not necesary)

Click to Finish

Click in OK to continue.

and Now you've got vCenter Server in your infrastructure or lab... Enjoy it!!

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Power CLI: Depot + Patch

Creating a custom ISO using PowerCLI

Hello Guys!!!

In this post I'm going to show you how to create a custom ISO using PowerCLI, so what happens if a virus like wannacry is for VMware (I'm not joking jeje).  So VMware Admins need to create a custom iso for esxi that includes the VMware Path, so you can find anything patch from this page:

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search

So you need to download this files to your Windows Machine (I'm not sure that PowerCli Core for MAC Users is possible to do this custom iso).

Let's Start!!!

The first step is create a Folder (If is neccesary)

In my case I created one folder with one subfolder named patches, you can sort it like you want.

After that you need to use this command in PowerCLI

 Add-EsxSoftwareDepot 

D:\Depot\PATCHES\ESXi650-201703001.zip

You can use this command for checking the patch:

Then you need to include the patch in the ISO File...

So after that you can use that iso for patch your ESXi environment.. so I recommend to use Update Manager...

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