ESXi on a laptop

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• Details on Vsphere/ESXi install on laptop

  Hello

  I looked on forums and communities, and do not understand the correct way to do something.

  I want, at the moment, use a laptop to get training on Vsphere/ESXi Server, VCenter while I save for laboratory test.

  I would really like steps 1,2,3, etc. of a person if possible.

  I currently have a Lenovo T400s with Vista 64 bit OS.

  I'm confused about what order, I do all this.

  I prefer everything run from USB Thumb Drives or all virtual machines. I don't want to use my physical hard drive on the laptop and change or delete partitions, etc...

  Sorry for the confusion on my part but I promise to answer other stupid noobs questions when I'm father along!

  / Wayne

  Hello Wayne,

  Yes, you can configure the lab on your laptop, provided that you have a sufficient amount of RAM available on your laptop to support operations

  It is about 2 to 4 GB for a single esxi host vm.

  about 3-4 GB for vCenter vm.

  some for virtualization of storage like openfiler, starwind etc if you want to create a cluster.

  and around 2 GB of RAM to support your local vista OS on the laptop.

  However, if you do not want to use vCenter, you can install a single esxi and conncet with vsphere client host directly. But then you will not be able to test the features Island HA, DRS etc which depends on vCenter.

  You can install and use vmware workstation or any other software preferred to virtualize the environment on your laptop

  You can find more information on the blog of Scott Vessey

  http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.in/2011/06/building-vSphere-home-lab-for-vcpvcap.html

• ESXi on Sony laptops

  Does anyone have an experience of installing ESXi on a Sony laptop?  I have a Sony AR61ZU session do nothing and want to start with tests ESXi...

  If you want the argument less to install and want to avoid the problems of material, that you ultimately won't be able to fix, install windows or linux, then run workstation on top of your host operating system and run ESXi inside vmware workstation.  Most likely, your sony will have problems with the disk controller.  If you are able to get around this, you can have problems with the network adapter.  If you can move together, then you have the chance.

  -KjB

  VMware vExpert 2009

• Install ESXi on laptop

  Hello

  Just again with installation question, how to add NETWORK adapter drivers when installing ESXi in the laptop.

  and a minimum of RAM, HARD drive and other.

  Thank you

  Anand.P.K

  To install ESXi on unsupported hardware, you will need to know if there is a package of drivers for hardware components such as your network card and create an installation with this already injected driver image.

  The minimum requirement for ESXi is 4 GB (you need more memory if you want to run virtual machines however). The basically required disk space depends on the virtual machine to run, for ESXi itself - including the scores of dump - requires less than 10 GB. However, given that it is a laptop, you may have to see if the HARD disk controller is supported as well.

  André

• How do I configure Openfiler for ESXi 5.0 (on which has been installed in the workstation).

  9.0 pre-installed VMware I installed in my laptop. I created a 5.0 as a VM ESXi in workstation. And I installed vSphere client 5.0 in my laptop. And I am able to access ESXi from my laptop through the vSphere client.

  Now, I created a VM with Windows 2008 R2 on top of ESXi. I installed vCenter 5.0 in Windows 2008 R2 Machine. I have just to connect to vCenter using vSphere client (which has been installed in my laptop) and added ESXi as host in the inventory.

  Now, I created a VM with Openfiler. Everything is fine. I want to use this Openfiler as a storage array, and I want the SAN with ESXi and Openfiler configuration.

  I think I need to create a VMkernel port group and attach that Openfiler VM who. And if I want to access the Openfiler web interface, do I need to have internet access? We can access the Openfiler Web interface without having access to the internet?

  Can someone let me know how to connect this Openfiler as a storage Bay for ESXi and configure a San.

  Openfiler does not need Internet access and you do not require an additional VMkernel port for access.  If it's production, you share the management and traffic on NIC iSCSI physical separate and thus vmkernel ports.  In this case, it is not necessary.  Did you do the initial installation of Openfiler to create a LUN for the ESXi host access?

• Installing the server on VMware server ESXi

  Hello

  Im trying to install esxi iso file in a VMware Server (in my laptop with 4 GB and windows 7 prof). I have created a virtual machine and tried to proceed with the installation. Initial measures follows and ends with Esc - repair-installation of the screen. In this screen im not control keystrokes at the keyboard and mouse n and cannot go any further. I found in the net that this method will work for purposes of practice. Can someone help me. ?

  Hello Pjo

  For your question, I understand what you are trying to install ESXi on your laptop to test / learning object. I also suppose that you try ESXi 4. ESXi 4 requires 64-bit processor. Your laptop should also support virtualization. To make sure that your laptop supports virtualization, go to configuration and find what is called VT and then activate it if it is not yet enabled.

  Once you have completed step abvoe, download & install the latest version of VMWare Workstation. Then create a new virtual machine, assign them to less than 2 GB of RAM, and then try again to install ESXi 4.

  I believe that this will help you to start with. If you have any other questions feel free to write back to me. And if you think that this answer is correct, please mark correct. If in case it is not correct, but has been useful so mark has useful

  Thank you very much

  Riaz

• Installing ESX 3.5 in laptop

  I would like to try VMware ESX () ESXi (or) free server in my laptop... I would like to run a bare metal Virtual server + 1 guest os for games + 1 guest os for development + 1 guest os server + 1 guest os for testing purposes... Of course only 2 systems will work in parallel.

  My config mobile as follows,

  NVidia GeForce Go 760

  Thosiba 80 GB SATA II HDD

  Western Digital 250 GB SATA II HDD

  Data/Fax/Voice Modem HDAudio

  Intel Pro/1000 PL NIC

  Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG wireless NIC

  Intel Core 2 Duo Centrino (T5200 @ 1.60 GHz) processor

  2 * 2 DDR II @ 667 Mhz Transcend RAM

  17 "dual monitors (1 laptop + 1 external)

  My doubts are as follows,

  1. is it possible to install ESX or ESXi in my laptop for the configuration of the said above,

  2. If so, is it possible to use the laptop as desktop itself (for example by installing GUIS in VMware server and RDP to my guest operating system since the laptop itself rather than using another system for RDP to connect to my laptop)

  3. is it possible to use my graphics card for games (which I will use NFS, GTA, Spore etc...)

  4. is it possible to use within the operating systems wireless connections (guest will mainly be WinXP, Win2003, Win2008, Ubuntu...)

  5. is it possible to mount my 2nd drive (formatted in NTFS) HARD inside the guest without repartiotning OS?

  6. is it possible to use my Pen/Flash like as before?

  7. is it possible to use my DVD LightScribe burner with no problems?

  8. is it possible to use external monitors?

  NOTE: If I'm not able to run the ESX/ESXi servers hope I'd be able to run VMware free server on linux OS (likeubuntu 8.10) without any problems... However, I would be most greatfull if someone can give advice to the questions listed above.

  (A) games will not run on virtual environments

  (B) you should not use VM Ware ESX Server.  You don't have a local console to 'see' the virtual machine, you have to distance their

  (C) the Wireless does not work inside the virtual computer

  (D) you may not use the external screens with VM either.

  Them are offices remotely, this is how you see them.  It is preferable to 2 machines, your laptop and a cheap desktop computer with ESX (or VM Ware server) and run your Dev, application on that server.  Run your games from your laptop and connect to the desktop computer / lapto with a KVM 2 ports.  In this way, you can have sound, a large screen LCD and Wireles.

• Specifications of hardware OK?

  Hello

  After trying to run ESXi on my laptop computer in a virtual machine and not having a lot of success, I wanted to just take the plunge and put little money down to get a half decent machine that will help me on my way to a virtual laboratory.

  I've seen a HP machine with the below form.

  -Processor Intel Core i7-2600 3.4GHz 2nd generation
  -8 GB memory DDR3 (PC3-10600)
  -HDD 500 GB-7200 RPM

  I want to run to at least

  -Cisco Unified Callmanager 7.1

  -Cisco Unity Connection 7

  Then finally add

  -Cisco Unified touch Center

  -Microsoft Windows Server 2008 - Active Directory

  I just want to know if the above machine would be a good starting point, and then look at level looks like RAM or hard drive.

  NISH

  nishantj wrote:

  I agree mcowger and thank you for the reply, definiately for a complete site deployment would not a production server. However, for the moment, I'm looking to have this as a platform for reading/laboratory.

  Oh.  For a lab - absolutely.  It is very good.

  If I'm spreading the budget - just to know the type of material I want to start, which would be a good platform to start (maybe on shelf towers etc.)? I saw HP Pavilion HPE h8-1070... would it be an acceptable point to start?

  The first thing to check is compatibility - I would recommend looking at material from class server used on craigslist or ebay - a lot less trouble comatability forst.

  Something like that would be an excellent choice:

  http://www.eBay.com/ITM/Dell-PowerEdge-1950-2x-Intel-CPU-32GB-RAM-2x-146GB-SAS-HD-8YVDQB1-/180798341055?PT=COMP_EN_Servers&hash=item2a186bbfbf#ht_2366wt_1136

• 6 of ESXi running on a laptop.

  I don't have a personal server to run ESXi 6, is it possible to run it on a desktop or laptop?

  Sorry in advance if I messed up anywhere in the post.

  I recommend the creation of nested using vmware workstation environment. It will be very easy to install.

  because you will use the hardware not supported to install OS ESXi, bare-metal deployment is possible, but can you trouble when it comes to finding the right drivers for NIC etc...

  Let's say your laptop got 8 or 16 GB of ram dual core processor. and is installed with windows 7 OS, now install VMware workstation 10 or 11.

  create a virtual machine with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of memory with 1 vNIC and 10 GB of disk space virtual, mount ESXi 6 iso with cd/dvd player in this VM and turn on. It will start and launch the installation of 6 ESXi from that iso.

• !!!!!! Help! No network card detected during the instalation ESXI 5.5 in a laptop

  Hello

  I want to get a lab and install an ISO of ESXI 5.5 image from scratch in a laptop Lenovo T430 16 GB of RAM. Everything appears normally, BOOT from CD, copying files, early and late services, appears "not found network card remember that you at least have a network card to connect to the system", there is only the choice to have an ABORTION. Any help? The card is one Intel (R) 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection.

  What is strange to me if I installed a Windows 7 and after 10 VWworkstation, I can install a 5.5.without ESXI, even ISO problem

  ANYhelp is welcome!

  Jesus

  Welcome to the community,

  Please take a look at http://www.virten.net/2013/09/esxi-5-x-installation-on-intel-nuc-fails-with-no-network-adapters/ for more information on how to customize the installation image to recognize your network card. When you install ESXi as a virtual machine in VMware Workstation, it is not the physical NETWORK adapter which is presented to the virtual machine, but a virtual NETWORK adapter for which ESXi uses built-in drivers.

  André

• P2V conversion of variable with the physical air to ESXi VirtualCenter environment using a laptop as the converter/transport

  Hello

  I'm looking at a collection of physical servers for migration to a virtualized environment: the goal is to move from a huge collection of 30-40 physical servers of different brand/model/specification and physically scattered in many places for a single grid filled with boxes of ESXi.

  I have a question about the best way to conduct the physical to the virtual conversation process (don't worry - looking for high level only indicatively!).

  For the bottom, 30-40 physical servers are not connected/not related in terms of operating system (ie. not a member of a common domain, run multiple operating systems - for most variants of Windows NT4/2000/2003 etc) but are connected to the same physical network infrastructure and all contribute to a common function. In short they can each be considered in the sense of functional servers 'specific application.  Further and I think very important to mention, the current environment and the new rack/rigging are (to be) exploited isolation - IE. Air-ajar.

  I see my new rack running DL380s running ESXi and images on a San shared and connected them via a dedicated switch. with a VirtualCenter instance server in there somewhere to hang together... not sure at this stage as to where I should do that in a Machine virtual itself (preferable to reduce the hardware requirements), or if a physical process adding unique 'management' style server would be more appropriate.  I also have a laptop to 'manage' the environment which will be connected to the switch on an ad hoc basis.

  I want to be able to do is use this notebook to go to each of the existing physical servers in turn (connection on its network switch) and create a virtual image of it (hot or cold, although I guess the cold option seems nicer than the existing server remains completely intact) before resuming the laptop computer to the virtual test bench , and then "push" the virtual image in VirtualCenter and on an ESXi host (with any post import etc. reconfiguration tasks that may be required).  I'm not sure what components I need where to do this - specifically which allows me to capture the physical server while having no connectivity with the VirtualCenter Server?  I've read through documentation/notes Converter Enterprise - this would be the correct way to go?  If so I should the Converter Enterprise Server component installed on the VirtualCenter server or the laptop itself (ie. What must be connected to what during the capture process?) ?  Or is there a simpler approach of independent style should I watch?

  All advice/aid/comments greatly appreciated in advance!

  Simon

  Hello

  See http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/virtualization-pro/secure-method-to-p2v-across-security-zones/ for assistance. Indeed, you have the same situation. All you need is one VMware Converter.

  Best regards

  Edward L. Haletky

  VMware communities user moderator

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• Pavillondv6-6c50us: Re-install windows7 on the question of the laptop

  My laptop OS when buying: Windows 7 (64-bit)

  I have installation disks.

  Recently installed VMWare ESXi hypervisor on this laptop to test something. This erases everything, including Windows-7 on this laptop. Now got my tests. You want to reinstall Windows-7 from installation discs and not have ESXi.

  There is no boot menu options! How to install Windows 7? Experts, please help.

  Rigorous-

  The PRESENT DOCUMENT explains 'How to' of the recovery Partition or the set of recovery disks.  Assuming that's what you mean by "I have installation disks.

• Unable to ping ESXi 5.5 VM workstation 11 comments

  Hey all,.

  A lot of research and have not found good results. Currently impossible to ping to my VM ESXi from my Windows 10 laptop that runs 11 workstation.  I installed a custom VMnet (host only) with a specific subnet to the ESXi management interface. I loaded this VMnet even to my ESXi VM settings. I dropped my windows firewall, disabled the anti-virus software, disabled firewall ESXi and reconfigured NIC drivers to vmxnet3 without success. I know the VMnet I created works because I have an XP machine VMnet even we are able to ping successfully between my laptop and the XP VM.

  Any guidance would be appreciated.

  Fixed with the help of collaborator. I'm all new to VMware and I have a lot to learn.

  With the configuration, it is indicated in my previous post, I made the following changes.

  Modification of my trade to VLAN ID 0

  Configured for vmxnet3 NETWORK interface drivers

  I can now my computer vSphere mobile host in my ESXi 5.5 VM guest.

• 6u2 ESXi host nested on VMware Workstation for Linux referee v12

  Hello all, I have

  I have a lab environment virtual running in VMware Workstation for Linux v12, and my ESXi hosts do not work correctly on one of the virtual networks. All my troubleshooting suggests a problem with nested ESXi hosts that may be a bug, but I want to assure you that I did everything properly first. That's why I post here with the hope that if I made a mistake that maybe someone else can point out he me.

  Physical system

  8 core Intel Xeon 2.1 GHz CPU

  128 GB of RAM

  OS - kernel Linux 64 - bit w/3.19.0-32-generic Linux Mint 17.3 (fully updated from this announcement)

  VMware Workstation 12 Pro - 12.1.1. Build-3770994 (fully updated from this announcement)

  Nested ESXi host VM

  ESXi v6.0.0 (Build 3825889, completely updated from this announcement)

  4 cards 'physical' (only 3 used for now)

  -all use the e1000 NIC hardware virtual, but also tried vmxnet3 NIC with no difference

  -vSwitch0 use vmnic0 & 1 vmnet16 of virtual network in a pair of active / standby

  -vSwitch1 uses vmnic2 on network virtual vmnet18

  -vmk0 used for management on vSwitch0 and vmk1 for iSCSI on vSwitch1

  -"Promiscuous" mode and forged passes enabled on all Port vSwitch groups (activating or turning off these features makes no difference)

  Test performed until now

  I checked that all the IP addresses and network masks used are correct.

  With the help of vmkping I ping other nodes on the network vmnet16 with success.

  With the help of vmkping I tried to ping the other nodes in the network vmnet18, but that has failed.

  I have depolyed other non - ESXi VMs on the vmnet18 network, and they are able to ping each other, but are unable to ping or ping by the ESXI host.

  I tried various material virtual NIC as mentioned before, but without changes in the results.

  I tried to use only local network instead of the vmnet18 guest network segments with no change in results.

  When I find out the status of the network adapters on the ESXi host through vCenter or host incorporated client vmnic0 & 1 time display network information, but vmnic2 shows no networks. Yet, I know that there is a network with different VM communicate on it. Moreover, I was able to get all of this work on a Windows system running 10 Workstation (this is the laptop that my employer gives me with).

  Having built nested ESXi labs on different platforms as well as physical environments in the past, I'm very confused as to why I can't get this special configuration to work. At this point my gut tells me that this is probably a bug any with the nested themselves ESXi hosts. Since I can get all this work on vmnet16 including the management of ESXi hosts and the VCSA that I use, I am sure that my vSwitch configuration is correct (other than the IP address space and vmnic configurations is bascially the same). Because I can get other virtual machines to communicate over the network vmnet18 I don't see how can be a VMware Workstation for the issue physical Linux host. Is there something obvious I'm missing here? I read on the ESXi hosts nested under VMware Workstation after having known problems and bugs with networking. If anyone else has experienced this?

  Thanks for any help others can provide!

  Kind regards

  Patrick

  Well, the problem is now resolved. The problem was what covelli was trying to explain, but I couldn't because the physical host network adapters being mentioned.

  The problem on the Linux host, but it was a problem of permissions with the virtual Ethernet adapters. The following article has the fix:
  With the help of Ethernet virtual cards in Promiscuous Mode on a Linux host (287) | VMware KB

  Even if I launched the workstation under the root user I have yet met this problem and which still makes no sense to me, but change the permissions solve the problem. I was not getting an error message on my Linux Mint and Ubuntu system, but when I tried on a second box of Linux Mint that I just got the error has been generated, and the error message was the above link it contains.

  So, here's what I learned:

  (1) the question has nothing to with a VMware Workstation definition that you can configure.

  (2) the question has nothing to do with a physical network card.
  (3) the question has nothing to do with any vmnic on the nested ESXi host.

  (4) apparently virtual Ethernet adapters are not the correct permissions when created.

  All you have to do to fix this is:

  (1) open a terminal.

  (2) run the command ' sudo chmod a + rw/dev/vmnet * "(don't forget to run this each time that you create a new virtual network).

  You can also create a group, as shown in the link above and simply give this group the correct permissions. Personally, I think it's easier to just give everyone the rw permission.

  I appreciate the help that others have offered. I did not understand what was asked for in previous answers because of the terms that have been used.

• Installation of VMware Vsphere on HP laptop

  Hello

  I'm pretty new in virtualization. I just have a question.

  Can I install VMware VSphere 5.1 on HP laptop? It's going to be just for the learning of VMware VSphere.

  More appreciated

  Welcome to the community,

  as you certainly know, ESXi is designed to run on the server hardware. However, it depends on the material (for example controllers of disks, network cards,...) if ESXi will run on a laptop. You can just try and if something is not found you can have a look at for example https://vibsdepot.v-front.de/wiki/index.php/Welcome to see if the necessary drivers are available and can be used to create a custom install image.

  Another install ESXi directly on the hardware, it is also very common to run a virtual laboratory of vSphere, i.e. install Windows or Linux on your laptop and use VMware Workstation to build the laboratory.

  André