How to install and configure vCenter Server Appliance 5.1 on ESXi 5.1

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[michaelcusumano]

Thanks for posting bro. This was percise and helpful for a quick start. Your voice is calming. You remind me of the guy who used to paint on tv, Bob Ross. Thankful to you and all that post on here. I should give back more but always seemed stressed to get stuff done. Thanks again!

[bharathsrinivas]

Glad to see a detailed video, i am exploring these installation now and little more tweaking to add nexus.

[squirreljester]

After an hour with Vmware, here was what was going on:
The new appliance was, for some unknown reason, storing it's temp files for the database conversions on the root of the appliance, which ended up being about 1GB more than what could fit on it. We had to add a 20GB drive to the appliance, edit some STAB and mount files, point them to the new drive, and force it to use that as it's temp space. Then it worked.
Fun stuff.

[surreypasty]

Excellent video and commentary. Allowed me to pretty much carry out the operations on my live system as I watched. Thanks!

[PaoloMarinelli]

don't care about his critic.. better to be "slow" than too fast.
I am very grateful of your job, thank you very very much for share your knowledge.
I am totally newbie of VMware.. and in general i am not expert in informatic, anyway you are helping very much to try to understand and learn something.. thanks!

[hydrometal]

great presentation i learned a lot ..im using esxi 5.1 on a ibm 3850 server i have esxi 5.1 loaded and im able to connect with client .... guess my next step would be to deploy vcenter on my server .... and go from there. this video will help immensely ...thanks for your time assembling this . thanks kendhill

[JuanPabellonTV]

Thanks, this was great man. Easy to follow and it was perfect! I got midway through installation when I stumbled up on your video, glad I found it.

[abdullahanimashaun]

Thank you for making vCenter deployment a easy

[TinkerTry]

All comments always appreciated, and I thank you!

[TinkerTry]

Wow, that's a very interesting/helpful story that you've shared. It makes sense, and we greatly appreciated your taking the time to write it up.

[TinkerTry]

Thanks for your feedback Khalid!
Stay tuned for the upcoming 5.5/6.0 release, likely coming up later this summer, to also be covered at Tinkertry dot com, along with more YouTube videos too, of course.

[wobblycogsyt]

Excellent video, exactly what I needed to help me get started.

[ja]

Hi, love your videos!

I am using the free license of ESXi on a single host.

I am considering adding the vCenter appliance as a VM to enable VM cloning, web client, and easier host upgrade. I am also considering a second host, but that is a different story.

Can I use vCenter on ESXi host using the free license, or will I be limited to the 60 day trial period if I do not purchase ESXi or vCenter?

[kastilem]

Thanks for the video Paul - very helpful. I agree about the system requirements. VMware should have scaled the storage and memory according to the environment. 8GB for a few hosts is unecessary. Even Windows Servers can happily operate with much less.

[Venkatesh.Dhotre]

a good video, ins-ted of depending on windows server each time, we can do this way of VC installation.. thanks for this video

[TinkerTry]

I'm sorry, I have not run into this issue. I suppose creating a while new appliance VM isn't a good option for you. I do hope somebody chimes in with some advice.

[toknowit]

This is a fantastic video. It help me to understand  vCenter  Server Appliance. Thank You

[saddens]

I have 1TB USB3 portable HD, Can i use that as a storage device and create software iSCSI target to connect to that and run my virtual machines?
Since i am using my laptop i have space problem so i am trying to use USB3 portable HD

[squirreljester]

I'm getting an error when I do my upgrade, that when I tail the log on the new appliance, I get a bunch of these errors "Cannot mkdir: No space left on device" when it's trying to copy some log files, which makes no sense because those log files are a grand total of 248k. I've posted on Spicework's forums but no answer yet on what issue could be causing this.
Any ideas?

[jorgeleyvahurtado]

Buenos dias Paul. Crees que pudieras ayudarme a conseguir el link o el Iso de esta aplicacion pues como soy cubano no la puedo descargar.
Gracias

Good morning Paul. You think you could help me out a link or GET Iso de este application for Cuban Since I can not download.
Thank you