Learn about downloading ESXi and other vSphere components, ESXi Appliance, PowerCLI, and more.
- [Instructor] 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 environment.…The first is virtuallyGhetto.…William Lam provides not only the script that we'll be using…but also a nested ESXi virtual appliance…that makes the installation much quicker.…The second website is virten.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 NUCs,…the Mac mini, and HP Microservers,…very common servers for small home labs.…
So, we'll go down to the Gigabyte BRIX.…While I don't actually need to download anything from here,…there's a lot of information on 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 we'll need to make,…particular drivers that need to be installed.…And the third site is VMware Front Experience.…This site provides the custom vims…
Released
3/8/2017- Virtual machine benefits
- Building a lab environment with a mini PC
- Working with ESXi and vCenter Server
- Installing a control center VM
- Using the HTML5 client and the web client
- Adding an ESXi host and use Remote Console
- Configuring vSAN and storage profiles
- Adding NFS datastore
- Deploying a virtual machine from OVA
- Performing a cloning operation
- Using templates
- Performing a vMotion migration
- Working with snapshots
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