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Told it to install to the only available disk
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Takes us back to a summary screen where we can make any changes if necessary, otherwise click finish to create the VM.ĭoing so drops us back into the Virtual Machines tab with the new addition of Server 2k19 test VM.Ĭlicking on the green play button to power on the machine, brings up a boot options screen, selecting the CD-ROM to boot the windows iso.Īnd into the classic windows installer interface.Ĭhoose your edition, (my powershell skills are not up to scratch yet so i shall go with Standard Edition with Desktop Experience)īeing a clean install i selected advanced
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Selecting the Server ISO i have already uploaded to the datastore and hitting OK. Scrolling down to CD/DVD drive, selecting Datastore ISO file hitting browse. Next page we select a datastore for the VMįinally a customize settings screen, with a warning about overprovisioning disk, selecting thin provisioned allows me to continue, and while i’m here, lets mount the windows server 2019 ISO. Taking you to page 2 of the new VM wizard, where i give the VM a name and select the OS type, note server 2019 is not in the list yet, but i am very confident that selecting server 2016 will have no issues whatsoever. Predictably this brings up a list of options for adding a virtual machine to ESXi, either via deployment or addition of existing VM’s, or via creation of a new virtual machine.
Logging in takes you to the ESXi home page with at a glance information about the server.Ĭlicking on virtual machines in the left shows we have no VM’s as yet, so no time like the present, lets make use of the helpful looking “Create/Register Virtual Machine” button. Throws a security warning, being a machine i “built” on my local network, I trust it and ignore the warning. Now as this is my home lab and i don’t have a planned infrastructure, my host DHCP’s, in a production environment running critical services, i would have assigned addresses, but for now that doesn’t matter. With iso in hand (on disk anyway) lets connect to an ESXi host and start building.įiring up Vmware Workstation and a n ESXi 6.7 hypervisor within, once booted we have a helpful message on screen – to manage this host go to. Click Install to start the installation process:ġ0.Ok, So lets get a Virtual machine running on ESXi, and what better to start with than a windows server? So I jumped on Microsoft’s evaluation center website and grabbed a copy of server 2019. The Complete installation option will install all VMware Tools features, while the Custom installation option will let you choose which features to install.ĩ. The Typical installation option will suffice for most situations. Select the installation type and click Next. Click Next in the Welcome to the installation wizard window:Ĩ. If you didn’t get the AutoPlay window, go to D:\setup.exe, where D: is the virtual CD-ROM drive.ħ.
Click on Run setup64.exe to start the VMware installation.
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Click Download and Install in the Software Updates window that opens:Ħ. From the Player menu bar, select Player > Manage > Install VMware Tools to start the VMware Tools installation:ĥ. Log in in the guest OS as the administrator.Ĥ. Make sure that the Auto detect option is selected:ģ. Under Hardware, go to CD/DVD and select the Use physical drive option on the left. To do this, go to Player > Manage > Virtual Machine Settings: This enables the virtual machine’s first virtual CD/DVD drive to detect and connect to the VMware Tools ISO file. Configure the virtual CD/DVD drive to autodetect a physical drive. The guest OS must be running in order to install VMware Tools.Ģ. If the virtual machine is turned off, power it on.
VMware Tools is automatically installed when the Easy Install option is used for Windows installation, but if you didn’t use this option, you will need to install VMware Tools manually. VMware strongly recommends installing VMware Tools in a virtual machine running Windows OS.
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