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

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!

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

The best video on setting up vSphere. Thanks!

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

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

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

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

Oh, that's my fault that I needed to add Vshere.Local in two places, but I only did only one. After I corrected, it worked very well! Again, a great video and thanks!

Thanks for the great Video! your video helped me a lot, I'm really looking for the next part of the video about connecting Active Directory and DvSwitch to the environment!. Thank you so much , your explanations are incredible, Keep the great work! Just subscribed :D

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

Thank you so much for the complete setup process.

what a great video. Thank you so much for providing informative videos that are interesting and easy to understand! New subscriber!

Great video! Hope to see the other hypervisor videos soon!

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

Thanks Justin for this video. Very PRACTICAL.

Very good knowledgeable video! Really appreciate for very excellent VMware networking. understanding

Very helpful video for starters. Thanks a lot from Berlin!

Thanks for the video... HAHA I had my stuff all messed up, no wonder everyone had screens I didn't have! This was very helpful... I actually deleted my entire install and reinstalled along with this video to get everything going as it should.

great video. Very straightforward.

Thanks for everthing. Subscribed to follow you!

Awesome videos. I would love to see how you deploy Security Onion inside your IDS network. Thanks again

This is awsome please continue from this

Gracias es un video muy completo y con excelente información, TKS!! great job!

Thanks. It is extremely beneficial

Great tutorial!

Awesome video!

Great walkthrough =) thanks =)

i really learned a lot... thank u

you are the best!!!

Thank You so much

Phenomenal! Information thank you!!

hi, your lab is so awesome

Incredible 👏👏👏 learned a lot

Thank you very much!

Thank you.

Superb

Excellent thanks

I enjoy, thank you

Grate Video Sir...I learned a lot...

thanks so much

Thank you, waiting for tomorrow finding the evil in tls traffic zoom meeting.

Great video thanks 😊

I have older blades. To get vSphere 7 on it I edit the boot options and add AllowLegacyCPU. The downside, if your vSphere computer goes down and you reboot, you need to manually edit the boot options on each restart.

Decent effort. Thanks for trying,

@25:23 - that is what I like o do too. Only have one Active Domain Controller, and i like it to run on the esxi host. so my setup, don't have local esxi datastore or local AD, it jus have my router and the 4-esxi servers. Then after installing vCenter & vSAN at the same time, I will then setup all the needed VM in esxi (DC-01, DC-02, RootCA, Issuing-CA, FileServer, PrintServer, etc...)

Nice video 😊

Thank you, Bro!

This was SO incredibly helpful!! The only problem I ran into (which is a MAJOR one), is my password doesn't work after installing vCenter, so I think I'm pretty much dead in the water? I even created another admin account and tried to log in that way to no avail. I've tried with and without the domain name. Annndddd... scratch that - after rebooting the machine, vCenter doesn't load up at all. Darn it!! Update... didn't realize I had to start the VM to access it. Oh well, it's only my first few days with VMWare. Thanks again for this video!!

thanks

Like it a lot to learn VMWare

This was a fantastic video it really got me going in the right direction. Any chance on seeing that vSAN video?

Great

thank you so

Great to start with Vsphere ,Esxi 7

Thanks for the Walkthrough on vsphere. I am in the process of setting this up. I may can get my hands on a HP Z820. To start my lab. Will that be enough to get started with Lab?

Some great tutorials here so great work, I was wondering if you could point me in the direction of any Video you have that shows the end to end deployment of ESXi 7.0 vCenter and then SRM 8.4 (I am good for installing ESXi & vCenter but am hazy with what is required in order to get a LAB up and running with SRM 8.4 as id like to do some testing. Any help very gratefully received

Any more videos on vCenter ?

Thanks a lot. Are we able to create templates on esxi too (without Vsphere/cluster) ? I don’t have installed yet because I’m waiting the server delivery 🚚

Great video, dumb question, do I install center on a VM on one of the host on on my local machine?

Thanks Justin, please I have question, Iam trying to deploy the vcenter 7.0 on EXCI 7.0. only have one localhost which is ESXI. my vcenter work smothily till step 5 select deployment size, it failed with error saying that "a problem occurred while reading the OVA file Error: invalid XML" the problem i guess with network and connection somehow not reading the OVA properly.

question: i have running for long time vmware esxi 6.7 pre installed in DELL EMC , which i wish to put it into a vmware center to control it and, i've just recently buyed another poweredge640 dell EMC whic also has vmware esxi7.0 . Can i create or download a vcenter to control both vmwares? thsnks thoug

would version 6.0 have the same setup ?

@7:27 - why did you not install esxi on the 32GB SD card ???

Great video! You laugh like Curly from the 3 Stooges.

How can you complete the setup if you do not have another system with a browser. What I mean by that is if you just have raw hardware and the ESXI is all that has been installed. How do you then get to run the VCSA on the ESXI system directly? As you as yet have no other workstation available to access it.

What book would you recommend to learn VMware vSphere, ESXi ?? Ty

Justin, I recieved the red arrows of pain. I have been trying to fix it without luck. what can I do to fix it?

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Great job Justin Please could you share a VMware online practice lab Thanks. I need to dirty my hands

but i have a question, when installing Vcenter in my own computer, it always appeared "a problem occured durung RPM installation: time out" as soon as it achieved 96% in progress. Could you tell me how to fix it?

Is it possible to do a separate VCENTER on a windows machine instead of an existing ESXi host? Specifically with v7

I'm assuming I can't turn on all the services on the default TCP/IP stack such as vMotion and Fault tolerance logging as I'm using the free version

So I checked out the license and its only for a year that I get access to enterprise level license. If I'm paying 200 a year does the license get renewed?

is it possible to install vcenter in nested esxi if possible what is prerequisities

Tried to install ESXi, but the installation fails because it cannot find a network card. The network card is built into the motherboard.

Is the HP Z620 noisy?

Thanks, Justin. If I have only 1 host box, do I still want to install and set up vCenter? Or, set up a lab environment using vSphere/ESXi?

How to backup VM? 3rd party? Vmdk?

I built 3 EXSi 7.0 servers and used 3 web browsers connect to and sign on as root account. I was configuring TCP/IP as per your introduction exactly, but when I hit save button, I received the error MSG mentioning "Please provide a valid domain name, the length must be less than or equal to 62". Do I need to define vsphere.local domain first and where/how I definite?

I am having an i9 machine with 64 GB ram and SSD as well still my vcnter works too slow. Now able to work anything in LAB . Any suggestion to make it faster

Hi Loved your video , but i followed your steps and i didn't succeeded , deployment stuck in 99% , or error like "The installer is unable to connect to the vCenter Appliance Management Interface..." . Do you have a solution for that ?

@12:04 - did you setup storage or is esxi installer that create that storage ???. when i install esxi 7.0.3 on the 64GB SD card, no local datastore is create. @23:50 - you should setup one server fully, then rinse and repeat 🔂 for the others,, because it makes a better faster video.

What's the link from restarting to configuring the hosts. Are those hosts done thru Windows?

can we install it on Mac Mini M1 or Macbook M1?

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Great walkthrough Justin, thanks a lot. Quick question cause I think I might be confused. So I got my R740 with one CPU (will get the second as I go) and will be deploying ESXi on it, the question is, in order to deploy vCenter for HA on my homelab, how many ESXi hosts do I need? (I believe the answer is 2, right?), does that mean that I will need at least 2 physical CPUs to be able to deploy my vCenter? (Which will manage 2 ESXi hosts, each installed on one physical CPU?). Thanks in advance.

for me It goes straight to Appliance Manager

I don’t understand, do I install this like I Install an operating system? I’m trying to use an old PC.

One question, where do you install Vcenter? in a single computer or in another dedicated server? this is confusing for me.. can you please clarify this?

Hi, I would like to know how to setup esxi + vcenter with vsan as it's been install using IPv6 only I have a laptop & 4-node system, each node has: - 128GB RAM, dual 1GB RJ45, dual 10GB RJ45, a 64GB SD, 2x 256GB SataSSD, 4x 1TB SataSSD a 24-port 1GB switch & a 24-port 10GB switch 1. I install esxi 6.7 onto the SD card in each node - disable IPv4 for each node - enable IPv6 with ULA {fd10:xxxx:xxxx::/64} - edit /etc/hosts to list all nodes + vcenter ipv6 address info 2. at this point no datastore is enable or created, but ~50GB of free space is on the SD card 3. in storage->devices, i clear partition on each SSD 4. I created certificates for each node and replace /etc/vmware/ssl/rui.{crt,key} files 5. at this point all seems to be working fine, not sure about log files, will look into using USB-16GB to store them on or use the extra ~50GB on the SD card 6. I only connected one of the 1GB-RJ45 ports, but while installing selected both for management IPv6 vswitch, I connected the 10GB-RJ45 but did not set an address nor created a vswitch 7. I then started the GUI install of vCenter 6.7 Appliance and I told it to create vSAN with the 2x 256GB as cache & 4x 1TB as capacity, it reach 99% of step 1 of 2, and have not move since with message "setting post config parameters" tinypic.host/i/Ni2ub 8. I see the appliance created and running on esxi-01, if i access vcenter ipv6 address port 5480, i see Getting Started page of vCenter 6.7 with embedded PSC Question: 1. This should work fine, what did i do wrong ????

Cluster name 'grape' I think you went a little overboard on your bragging about your vlan setup but over all it was still a very nice video.