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With a USB thumbstick and the Celerra simulator, you can easily get an ESXi server up and running with just your laptop and the temporary use of your home PC. This document will show you how to: - Create a bootable ESXi USB Thumbdrive - Temporarily turn your home PC into an ESXi server - Create an iSCSI LUN and NFS Export in the Celerra Simluator running on your laptop. - Create VMware Datastores on the iSCSI LUN and NFS Export Note: This document assumes that you already have a Celerra Simluator configured and running on your laptop. If you need instructions for setting that up, please consult the Setting Up the Single Data Mover Celerra document before proceeding. I can give you my latest version of that as well.
Hit the F2 key to setup your ESXi server. Highlight Configure Management Network and hit Enter
Highlight IP Configuration and hit Enter Make sure that Use Dynamic IP Address is selected and hit Enter If you want to, you can rename your ESXi server through the DNS Configuration Press the Escape key to exit the Network Configuration Screen Since you made changes, it will ask if it should save and restart the management network. Choose Yes Press Escape to LogOut You are now back at the original screen and should see your ESXi servers IP address Now you can proceed to connect to your ESXi server over the network
Install the VI Client and accept all defaults Browse to your desktop and run the VI Client
Log in with the following parameters: - Server enter IP address of your ESXi server - Username root - Password no password
Configure NTP
Once the VI Client loads up, go to the Configuration tab Under the Software section, select Time Configuration Click Properties on the right-hand side Click the Options button Click NTP Settings Click Add In the Address field, enter pool.ntp.org and click OK Click General Click the Start button Click OK and your NTP is now configured
Click Properties On the General tab, click the Configure button Check the Enabled box to enable the iSCSI SW Adapter Click OK Click the Configure button again to see your iSCSI Name Copy this name and keep it handy for an upcoming step
On the Select File System screen, pick the Filesystem for your iSCSI LUNs and click Next
Create a new LUN and choose the size. Ill use 10GB in this example.
On the LUN masking screen, you will mask the LUN to your ESXi servers Software iSCSI Initiator. Click the Add New button and paste the IQN that you got from ESXi above. Click OK and then Next.
On the CHAP Access screen, just click Next. Click Finish on the Results screen. You now have an iSCSI LUN created and masked to your ESXi server.
Now your iSCSI target is listed in the Target window. Click Close Now click Rescan to discover your new storage devices and click OK
This will rescan all adapters and discover your new iSCSI LUN.
The next screen shows that the new disk is blank. Click Next Choose a name for your Datastore and click next Accept the defaults on the Formatting screen and click Next Click Finish on the Completion screen Now your Storage screen should look similar to this:
You now have an iSCSI Datastore that you can create VMs on.
You now have an NFS Export created and ready for your ESXi server
Click Finish on the summary screen Your Storage screen should now look similar to this:
You now have an NFS Datastore to create VMs, store ISOs, etc