In short, absolutely! What started out as a simple experiment to help m e learn more about VMware ESX has now turned into a full blown experiment running my current Windows Home Server setup, along with two Linux servers used for an online FEAR Combat gaming server for the kids of course and a private WordPress website development environment.
Windows Home Server given the relative ease with which I can now create new virtual servers. More experimentation is necessary to get to streaming high definition videos which seem to struggle, but standard resolution and audio seem to work fine so far. This certainly seems like virtual servers are now well within the reach of the tekinerd and small business operations.
Note — the other Artigo shown in the picture is running the dedicated server for the Earthquake monitor project. This was relatively straight forward. This took very little time and pretty much self-configured. This was the last time I needed a monitor on my Dell. Once up and running, the vSphere console allowed me to view the hardware configuration, create virtual server setsups, carve out the various memory and hard drive resources on the Dell and also allowed me to remotely install the operating systems required for the next phase.
The regular Linux install screen should then appear in the console interface as desired. You can also find more information on where to find the driver at a useful blog post here or use the version I created: [ lsi scsi driver ZIP file ]. Before starting the installation, the floppy disk image file needs to be mounted as a virtual floppy so it is ready for when the WHS installer requests a driver for the install hard drive.
When creating the virtual machine for WHS, the minimum memory and allocated disk space need to be 1GBytes and 70G respectively, otherwise the install will not work. Also, during the VM creation, the operating system type selected should be Microsoft Server Standard 32 bit selection. Depending on the speed of your LAN connection, the install may be a little slower than normal as the VM is reading the DVD over the home or small office network rather than directly.
With the mouse clicked on the console so it is active in the window shown, answer yes and navigate to the floppy drive or A: and select the.
If all goes well, the Windows installer should proceed as expected and the virtual WHS can be configured per the regular installation instructions via a client PC using the WHS Connector software utility or via Windows Remote Desktop Connection to the newly created home server. So I decided to build a low cost iSCSI storage device given there were a number of free open source options out there.
The one I used was OpenFiler www. I had some trouble initially using the two WD drives OpenFiler would allow me to create physical partitions or volumes which I had used in a prior configuration under Windows. Obviously Openfiler is a sensitive to this. Once the two devices were added to the virtual machine, moving across to the Window Home Server management console, I could now see the two new hard drives added and proceeded to add them to the storage pool that WHS uses for backup and general file shares, etc as illustrated.
Note, ESX only allowed up to GB to be provisioned up to the client operating system as shown, so adding further amounts needs to be done in GB chunks which WHS will aggregate into a single large storage pool. The FEAR combat server has been pretty much thrashed by outside gamers for serveral weeks now and I like the fact it is not running on the same server as the primary WHS backup or Linux WordPress server.
So being a VM where it can be self-contained, rebooted and isolated from the main servers has worked well so far with no visible signs of performance degradation operating via a virtual machine. I am still in the process of moving my client PC backups over to the new virtual home server, but expect to do this over the next few months though still need to determine how to migrate my old backups without losing them. One thing for sure, once in the VM environment, moving virtual PCs and servers around my mini-cloud and upgrading to new hardware in the future will be so much easier in theory.
Time will tell. An excellent write up indeed. Although ill-advised to download and run a Powershell script that one finds posted on a blog, I made the decision to try it out after inspecting the script, of course, and finding nothing that to my amateur eyes appeared suspicious.
I decided to issue the following command before attempting the Powershell script again:. I had to do a bit more troubleshooting with the script it was having difficulty loading the drivers automatically, so I downloaded the offline package for the driver I needed and pointed the script to the file location , but eventually, the script completed its run.
This time around, the ESXi installation was a breeze. In no time at all, I had the server up and running, ready to host some VMs. I attached a bootable Ubuntu USB to the host, but could not get the host to detect it. I finally discovered the option to upload an ISO to the host from the remote management computer. I restarted my machine to scour the BIOS for the virtualization settings. After many minutes of fruitless searching, I turned to my old pal Google for advice and came across the video below.
So, there we have it! Once the virtualization settings were enabled, I was able to power up my new VM and go through the OS installation without further issue. Have you set up a virtualization server with ESXi? Did you encounter a different set of challenges? Tell me about your experience in the comments below! You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account.
You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Either no network adapters are physically connected to the system, or a suitable driver could not be located.
A third party driver may be required. Ensure that there is at least one network adapter physically connected to the system before attempting installation. If the problem persists, consult the VMware Knowledge Base. Windows complained that the script could not be loaded because it was not digitally signed: You cannot run this script on the current system.
Core is not available as a module or snapin! It looks like there is no compatible version of PowerCLI installed!
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