Vmware Esxi Usb Drive Mounting Iso' title='Vmware Esxi Usb Drive Mounting Iso' />VMWare ESXi 5. HP Pro. Liant Gen. Introduction. In this tutorial we will set up a VMWare ESXi 5. Testlab for serving virtual machines on a small scale server system from Hewlett Packard, a Pro. Liant Microserver G8 aka Gen. Two methods are presented below. I strongly advise you to take the second variant presented. The first one, that should work ended in a Red Screen of Death Hardware modifications. As the basic machine is already a nice one, but not powerful enough equipped with hardware, I upgraded the server with additional components directly when buying the Gen. Sms 2003 Toolkit V2 on this page. Therefore I went to the smallest available model of the HP Pro. Liant Micro. Server Gen. G1. 61. 0T model. GB_mini_USB.jpg' alt='Vmware Esxi Usb Drive Mounting Iso' title='Vmware Esxi Usb Drive Mounting Iso' />I bought a G1. T and in addition the following hardware 1x Intel Xeon E3 1. L v. 2, a quad core processor 2,5. GHz, Sockel 1. 15. L3 Cache, 4. 5 Watt, BX8. E3. 12. 65. L2 and a turbo frequency of up to 3. GHz. 2x Kingston KTH PL3. E8. G DDR3 RAM with each 8 GB capacity 1. MHz, PC3 1. 28. 00 and ECC2x Seagate Barracuda ST3. DM0. 01 SATA III hard drives with each 3. TB 7. 20. 0rpm, 6. MB Cache1x USB thumb drive found one in the drawerThe main pros of this server are It includes a cheap but fine hardware hd controller, a HP Smart Array B1. K IOPS. The form factor It is in fact an Ultra Micro Tower. Less than 1. 50 W power consumption even with four HDDs, it will stay with less than 1. W Two 1. Gb Ethernet ports and one extra dedicated i. LO 4 network port. Internal micro sd and usb port to use them as additional hard drive ports. I will not cover the hardware installation here in detail, but just link to other pages that mentioned working CPU Ram upgrades. Up to today me havent seen anyone who managed to have 3. Vmware Esxi Usb Drive Mounting Iso' title='Vmware Esxi Usb Drive Mounting Iso' />GB of RAM working on the G8 server which would give a nice opportunity for the hosting. But I am quite sure with a wider distribution of 1. GB ECC memory module one will give it a try and make it work. It might be that HP will provide some kind of BIOS update to officially support more total memory. See the following pages for more information about the servers Additional preparatory work. Configure HP Integrated Lights Out i. LOYou should set up i. LO before the actual installation process, as this will make your further server life easier and of course because this tutorial makes use of i. Rca Test Equipment Manual. LO. This does not mean, you cannot go without the i. LO, but I suggest you to give it a try. Just check my previous post about i. LO on the HP Pro. Rumore Del Mare. Liant Microserver Gen. LO. Download the VMware ISO image. Download the modified current version of ESXi from the VMWare web page. You will be forwarded from HPs to VMwares web page. You have to login or create a login during this process. The ISOs name should be similar to VMware ESXi 5. Update. 1 1. 74. HP 5. Jun. Upgrading to latest available firmware. My server was delivered with a 1. HP Intelligent Provisioning Online update. The current version, while writing this tutorial is already v. Open the Remote Console, found under Remote Console Java Integrated Remote Console Java IRC, that provides remote access to the system through i. How to create a custom ESXi 6. ISO with VMware Image Builder GUIAs you know, previously, Auto. Deploy and Image Builder played with Power. CLI only. Things have changed in v. Sphere 6. 5 and now you have a possibility to build a custom image within the v. Sphere Web Client as the new GUI allows you to do that. So, today In the lab How to create a custom ESXi 6. ISO with VMware Image Builder GUI. There will be quite a few screenshots, but I like doing those. The fact that VMware now has a GUI tool which is not very difficult to master is really cool. So in my lab, I was able to add custom drivers and remove drivers from the original VMware ESXi 6. ISO. The resulted image was then exported as ISO or it can be used for Auto. Deploy scenarios. You might also need to create a custom ESXi 6. ISO when you need to integrate other than the stocked VMware drivers, say you have a NIC card which has its own drivers. The lab has been now fully upgraded to v. Sphere 6. 5 and Im running v. Center based on Linux v. Center server Appliance VCSA 6. I had to build a custom ISO which had new drivers for the LSI 3. SAN HCL and the X7. DA2 1. 0Gb. E NICs. Then only I could upgrade my hosts. You might be interested, Ive documented different ways of upgrades And also the upgrade of the v. Center Also So today Ill show you the steps which are necessary to configure and use the new Image. Builder GUI and create a custom ISO via this tool. Now, this is not the only way to do it. You might know other methods, tools. I know also the free tool from Andreas Peetz v front. ESXi customizer unsupported no longer, but which has become a Power. Shell script. Few requirements Part 1 Enable the service. Configure the v. Sphere ESXi Image Builder Service Startup Type youll do it by going to Administration Then at System Configuration click Services  Select Image. Builder Service, click the Actions menu, and select Edit Startup Type. If youre on Windows then the v. Sphere ESXi Image Builder service is disabled. In the Edit Startup Type window, select Manual or Automatic to enable Auto Deploy. On the v. Center Server Appliance my case, the v. Sphere ESXi Image Builder service by default is set to Manual. If you want the service to start automatically upon OS startup, select Automatic Click the Start the service icon. For the Auto Deploy GUI to be visible in v. Sphere Web Client, both the Image Builder and Auto Deploy services must be running. You should have the Image. Builder Service up and ruuningIf you want to use v. Sphere ESXi Image Builder with thev. Sphere Web Client, log out of the v. Sphere Web Client and log in again. The Auto Deploy icon is then visible on the home page of the v. Sphere Web Client. Part 2 start using Image. In ESXi 6. 5, there are some changes concerning devices connected with USB. The legacy drivers, including xhci, ehcihcd, usbuhci, and usbstorage have been replaced. VMware ESXi hypervisor can be installed on USB stick, but you can also create USB stick which contains ESXi installer in case your server does not have CDDVD drive. A lot of techs out there do not know how to create a bootable USB key to run firmware updates. Thats ok, its not often that you need to do this these days. Builder. Click the Autodeploy icon and youll see the initial welcome page. Youll want to close this one Im sureThere are different TABS Software Depots. Deploy Rules. Deployed Hosts. Discovered Hosts. For now, well be just playing with the Images and depots. Not with the deploy rules, deployed hosts or discovered hosts. Add a software depot first. Choose Custom depot we will be importing the VMware ESXi 6. Then Import the VMware ESXi 6. VMware. Next thing. The drivers. I had to import my two drivers. First one is the new driver for my x. DA2 1. 0Gb. E Intel NICs. And also the LSI 3. This one is for the built in storage controller. This storage controller is listed on the VSAN Hardware compatibility list HCL. ESXi and vCenter Server 5 Documentation VMware vSphere ESXi and vCenter Server 5 Documentation VMware vSphere Basics VMware vSphere and Virtualizing the IT. In this tutorial we will setup a VMWare ESXi 5. Testlab for serving virtual machines on a smallscale server system from HP a Gen8. The next step is to start the wizard and create an Image Profile. Put some meaningful name and description. Select the software packages. In my case, I had to pick the i. LSI 3. 00. 8. You doing it by drop down the menu and select the check box. Rinse and repeat for all your drivers. Next, select the VMware ESXi 6. In my case I dont want the old drivers. I dont want to to have both drivers on my ISO. Then hit the Finish button. And we have our new profile. Note the other buttons Edit, Delete, Clone, Compare to, Move to or Export. The Export will interest us today. You can generate ISO or Zip. Hit that Generate image button to generate new imageOnce done, you can downloadvia your web browser. Check the follow up post  VMware v. Sphere 6. 5 and New Image Builder GUI Cloning a profile. Thats all folks for today. We have configured VMware Autodeploy service and then we tested the new VMware v. Sphere image builder GUI. Yes, VMware has done a great job in this relase. We no longer have to be dependent on third party utilities for managing ESXi images. 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