How to Build a #VMware #Homelab - Step-By-Step #Tutorial - 2. Installing #ESXi

In previous videos, I provided partial walkthroughs of my nested #VMware #Homelab environment running #vSphere and #NSX. For this new video series, I will be doing a complete, #step-by-step rebuild of my homelab.

In this second video, we install #ESXi using the installation #USBdrive we created earlier om the #Supermicro #Superserver. We also configure our core network settings so we can run nested ESXi servers. Finally, we deploy three #nested ESXi servers using William Lam's Nested #Virtualization #OVA templates.

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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:03 Opening
0:41 ESXi installation
3:00 ESXi core configuration using the Web UI
5:33 Nested ESXi deployment and configuration
17:19 Closing words

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[TheTekkenhead]

The video is great. The only thing I ran into is when using William Lam OVA's and importing them in you can't use the initial GUI interface for any settings they don't take. But I am using ESXI 7.0.3 it might be different on other versions. You have to start up the ESXI VM and go through the DCUI F2 interface for network settings to work and be sure to disable the ip6v!! Otherwise the ip4v won't take on a reboot. Also you have to know the default password for the OVA's images which someone mentioned is VMware1! to get in the first time.

[aalabs]

Hi Jeffery i hope You 're doing well,
i have a question please i'm building my home lab and i'm not a network gut, i did not get the idea behind the trunking and why we use the port 4095 on our port groupe.
Best regards.

[emirosmolders]

Hi Jeffrey,
thanks for all those wonderfull video lectures. I'm also trying building a homelab with esxi. I just follwing your steps on nested esxi install. sofar so good, but when I install williams ova I cannot loging with the password I created. I gives me Invalid login or password.Did I forgot something?

[dirkvanderkop]

Ik snap niet zo goed waarom je een bootable USB-stick gaat maken, en vervolgens van daaruit installeren via IPMI.
Je kan een ISO mounten via de IPMI-interface (menu Virtual Media>CD-ROM image). Het enige nadeel is dat deze optie alleen SMB 1.0 ondersteunt (ook met de nieuwste IPMI-firmware).
Het is mij alleen nog niet gelukt om om Windows share te gebruiken hiervoor, ook niet na het installeren van SMB 1.0.
Het werkt wel vanaf een QNAP NAS, met SMB 1.0 ingeschakeld.
Misschien is dat een onderwerp om dieper op in te gaan.