Home Lab - vSphere and vCenter Installation and Configuration Guide

This video demonstrates how to install vSphere and vCenter for home lab purposes. With vSphere being one of the most prominent enterprise hypervisors, this video is designed to aid knowledge seekers so they can quickly deploy vSphere and potentially vCenter. Inside, you will find the installation steps as well as configuration for the following items:

- General hypervisor installation
- Portgroups and VLAN assignment
- IDS Port Mirroring
- VMkernel tuning
- Virtual Switch security
- Logic for creating multiple virtual switches with physical adapters
- Central management with vCenter
- Cluster configuration with DRS and HA

00:20 - Intro
02:04 - Step 1 - Download ISOs
03:13 - Step 2 - Make Install USB
06:26 - Step 3 - Install vSphere
11:08 - Step 4 - Configure vSphere
26:19 - Step 5 - Install vCenter
34:33 - Step 6 - Configure Cluster

[ErLeuchten]

even tho 3 years old it is still the best english vmware setup introduction guide on youtube 👍thanks

[justinbaker]

Thanks, Justin. I really enjoyed your SEC530 labs and have been following your H&A videos ever since. I've been wanting to setup vCenter and vSphere on a home lab for a while now and this video helped push me to go ahead and do it. I appreciate the walkthrough!

[miguellombana]

Great walkthrough as a homelab user that has no formal training on vmware this was super helpful, I had already done most of the install but the way you did it was slightly different and made more sense. Now I can finally migrate VM's from my old HP G6 to my new(er) HP G9! Thanks!

[thomaspeter]

Thank you for this walkthrough and the "side steps" explanations, like what is a portgroup, how works the virtual switch in esxi and stuff like that. Clear structured and comprehensible instruction. A video like this is very rare. Helpful for my apprentice to understand how esxi works in general and how the esxi networking works. He installed the vCenter by himself. It works and he learned a lot. Thanks!

[hosseinsabouri]

Great. Best video on youtube related to the vSphere and vCenter Installation and Configuration! THANKS

[pentonvillefandango]

Best home Lab Vcenter guide i've seen hands down. Great job.

[lkdipeolu]

You have been a blessing to my knowledge and understanding on virtual machine. Thank you very much. I am waiting for the follow up to this wonderful session.

[danielsuarezuy]

The best video on setting up vSphere. Thanks!

[khosrowjalali]

That was a really walkthrough Home Lab, This really helped me set up my own VCP home Lab and practice. Thank you!

[hasanshaikh]

Thanks Justin, God Bless, superbly made simple the entire configuration process

[shebipatel]

I appreciate your efforts in making things easy to understand. looking forward to more interesting videos.

[hannesblack]

Thank you very much for showing the whole setup process. It was very helpful for me 😀

[ojecko]

Best instructional video I've seen in a long time, thanks man!

[exit]

Thank you for the excellent explanation, I'm really looking forward to your videos about the distributed switch

[GopalAle]

Thank you so much for the complete setup process.

[nafis]

Thanks, Chris for making this video. Happy homelab!!!

[georgewilliams]

Thanks Justin for this video. Very PRACTICAL.

[protechsolutions]

Thanks a million, your video spared me a lot of stress.

[davidnajeme]

Rockstar... the best video on VMware intro guide on vSphere and vCenter

[Francois-B-Arthanas]

Just here to say - Thank you Justin. This is awesome!!! Hope to work on some of these with you.