Installing VMware vSphere ESXi 6.5

[@AnanZitawi]

I am wondering why there is 34 dislikes , hey gurus stop underestimating creative people , go ahead rob willis , thank you

[@trevor6607]

Love your teaching style. Very fluid, and easy to understand non-accented speaking. Hope you continue cranking out great material. Subscribed.

[@zpphoto1]

Love the fact there is no accent

[@CanadaEhhhhhhh]

perfect walk through for new users to role out Vsphere ESXi

[@Bullseye2298]

Thanks for your work bud. By far one of the easiest tutorials I've seen.

[@ShakilAhmed-ro4ki]

Straightforward and the kind of information and introduction I needed . Take love .

[@subhashchoudhary1017]

great video for someone to begin with Vsphere

[@unknownuser-sr2zh]

totally agree

[@richscaglione]

Hey Rob, another great video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us ;)

[@ommanomnom]

helped with my networking apprenticeship

[@isteocilginturk]

Hey Rob you are Stunning bro thanks for sharing your knowledge with us.

[@duttadivya2002]

Thanks Rob, the simplest and easiest explanation of VMWare vSphere and great tip to use USB to save hdd space. Kudos !!.....Time to fire my system admin though 👿...just kidding..

[@DeepakRohra]

Man oh Man .. can't thank you enough for the amount of doubts you cleared for me !!

[@saudnaeem8614]

helpful to understand the vmware esxi

[@JJ-nv3tv]

Excellent video, appreciate the effort that you took to make it.

[@Rajnimagic]

My God what a tutorial.......such a great

[@Mecha95]

Best tutorial on KZbin. Thank you so much

[@manish291088]

Thanks Rob. Your video tutorial is awesome.

[@joelanto_]

Simple and an Amazing video. Please keep posting.

[@Michael.M.Bawue.Germany]

Verice nice. Perfect start in the ESXi World

[@tonyrking]

Legend.. Brill tutorial, thanks.

[@BkodkodA]

Thank you for sharing this info dear brother, you doing a great job for us the new guys.

[@hayyankhan6150]

Wawo so clearly explained much appreciated. Thanks

[@wutangdaug]

tomorrow I will have an interview, if I manage to get that job with the knowledge here, I own you a beer then. Anyway, I learned something valuable and useful from you. Thanks.

[@robwillisinfo]

Glad you found it useful! Good luck on your interview!

[@wutangdaug]

Dude, this is not just useful. This is real life knowledge. Thanks for sharing it man. Jesus, I doubt anyone would teach this stuff to a graduated students patiently like you did. BTW, at the beginning, that big hardware stack ,what is official name for it? Server stack?

[@robwillisinfo]

Thanks! I make it a point to not over complicate things and make my content as digestible as possible. To answer your question about the rack, sometimes I call it my server stack and other times I call it my server rack, either one works but mine technically aren't even in a real rack. :)

[@Praveenkumar-fv2rx]

very good for beginners

[@ashleymccarthy6232]

Thank you Rob

[@JNET_Reloaded]

1 for usb booting use ventoy, 2nd you dont wana run windows with admin account 24-7 use a normal user account no admin then elevate privaliges when needed which is never that often tbh! other than that good vid.

[@luisordonez360]

Thank you! awesome setup and video, got great pointers from you.

[@amir829]

I can't thank you enough man. You've gained a subscriber.

[@naveedahmedchaudhry]

Most amazing review ever! Thank you so much :)

[@neileshthakur2283]

Simply Brilliant.. Thanks Rob :)

[@khanget]

Very well designed tutorial. Thumbs up

[@yuanzhibao7078]

Great Video!!!Thank you for making those awesome videos and uploading them.

[@Riyaz8980.]

Please keep it up with great videos

[@tbkalldayok]

If there is room in the budget I might suggest an R710 LFF which allows you to use 3.5" hard drives. Thanks for another great video!

[@robwillisinfo]

I like the R710 but honestly in a 2U space Id much rather go for 2x R610s with the 6 x 2.5" bays each or a C2100 with 12 x 3.5" bays. I really only go for 3.5" when I am looking to run larger drives, which is rare.

[@tbkalldayok]

Rob Willis Fortunately I have a giant stack of 3.5" drives at my disposal and plenty of rack space. I realize this is probably not the case for most people. I am going to check out that C2100. Thanks again!

[@danielpham1359]

Great demonstration! Thank you.

[@GauravKumar-in5in]

Great! Awesome demo! Helped a lot!

[@saadantefj]

Rob Willis, the guy everyone wishes was their teacher/manager/coworker

[@marodeutsche4569]

thnx so much , u are the best :) .... From Germany

[@abdulkadherjailani8421]

Wonderful experience...

[@mamoriel]

very nice tutorial, Thanks..!!!

[@gateofbabylon9177]

still such a useful guide

[@asifabubekar9630]

Thanks for this video dear its help me a lot

[@freeman8218]

Great stuff brother - thank you!

[@nishandhananjaya2473]

Nice Explaination. I love it. Make more videos for get more information.

[@TheOcta69]

Thanks!! Excellent video!

[@past3]

Awesome! Straight forward tutorial! worth the sub!

[@RajatKumar-hk6ff]

Awesome explanation.... keep it up !!

[@quincyhyde8760]

Thank You.

[@alnahian8435]

Great Video!

[@Riyaz8980.]

Thanks buddy

[@shuaib.urrahman]

very informative 👌

[@manojkumar-lt6wk]

What if ur hardware doesn't have a windows/ any other os installed?.. How would you access the ESXi web client then? Loved ur video though!! :)

[@mohsenmamivand3831]

Thank you that was awesome .appreciate

[@harx]

Thanks, Nice Tutorial.

[@felipelednick2118]

Very helpful. Thank you.

[@codefred1383]

I had to leave a like and a comment, great video :)

[@brantray6774]

Awesome video!

[@movieswovies]

nice and helpful video. do u have any video on installation of vCenter Server on Esxi host machine step by step? Thanks

[@alexsimon443]

Thanks you!

[@unknownuser-sr2zh]

thanks for your good work

[@aapeli4824]

vmware esxi is really cool

[@chainhonglim1281]

Thanks

[@razadaza9651]

very nice! well done!

[@unknownuser-sr2zh]

im just wondering.. what happens if the USB disk dies? and u have installed the ESXi on them... will u lose all ur vms?

[@robwillisinfo]

You would lose the ESXi install, but the VM's would still be intact on the other disks. So to recover - reinstall ESXi on a new USB, set the IP, import the VM's from the disks and done. Pretty painless. Also for those wondering in my experience over 6 yrs, I have only had this happen 2 times. Since I switched the the aluminum cased usb drives I haven't had one die....yet :)

[@pzrkstinger]

So, do I understand correctly: A powerful machine runs ESXi. Then you have to have another machine, like a netbook with windows to access ESXi settings through a browser. There, you set up and finally run some virtual machines. Let’s say a windows to play games and Ubuntu to be home automation server. How do I use my virtual gaming windows? Where do I plug my keyboard and a mouse? How do I use my Ubuntu?

[@robwillisinfo]

So you got it right for the most part, but you wouldn't want to run your "gaming windows" on VMware ESXi. You could run game servers. And you won't use a keyboard/mouse to directly access the servers, you would use RDP/PowerShell, SSH, VNC, etc. If you really wanted to game but try out some virtualization and only had one box, Id run Windows as a base OS and then VMware workstation to play around. Hyper-V does have an interesting use case around gaming over RDP using a VM and RemoteFX, but thats a whole nother conversation :)

[@pedrofigueiredo4905]

Excellent tutorial! Can you tell me what was the software that you used from Windows to access your Server in order to install ESXi? Many thanks.

[@iviaverick52]

I'm guessing he had to use a physically connected KVM since the ESXi OS doesn't have any kind of UI to support remote access.

[@sammy60004]

thank you brother

[@tylertc1]

Just circling back around to this video. Rob, love the little rack you've got there or that you've built / customized to your needs. You may have already mentioned it (I haven't gone all the way through the video yet) but where did you source that from or what did you use to retrofit?

[@robwillisinfo]

Thanks! Honestly I just based it off of the approx size of the servers which were something like 18" x 28" and then accounted for 3 x 1u (1.75") and 3x 2u (3.5") chassis's. I built a frame that would fit that out of 2" x 3"s and then covered it with 12" wide pine boards. I just did a new video with some more info on my rack and everything else that can be found here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ponJo5mYrJl_jrM

[@dattakoli5503]

Nice videos and knowledgeable

[@khazarhajiyev7710]

Thanks!

[@mohamedfethaoui696]

interesting tuto. thanks

[@CarnivalJack]

hey man what are the dimensions of that rack? i plan on buying a poweredge and amazon seems to only have smaller sized networking racks.

[@jason_a_smith_gb]

08:00 - VMWare ESXI Web Console Dell PowerEdge R710 has a Dell Customized 6.7.0U3 image at vmware.com Very helpful video. I’d like to watch a video that explains all the VM options and Windows Server options and what the differences and advantages are!

[@abea3396]

Rob, could you please tell me which version is better ? essential version or desktop version or platinum version ? and what is the difference between them ? is there any difference ?

[@krispykreme2115]

Hey Rob I’m going through this process but renting a server from a company and wanted to know how to setup with a dedicated or / static IP address from my home so I can login and have control. Any tips appreciated

[@spnbpn]

Thank YOu

[@vineeshpanangattkaravenugo4599]

how you add additional 2 storages.. your host have less storage right. You manually added additional HDD physical?

[@nepsky]

Now you can do whole things on RPi4 #RaspberryPi

[@chisty123]

why esxi is installed to usb disk? as usb is installer, the esxi should be installed to hard disk. isn't it?

[@didnthurt4077]

Thanks for the guidance! Well explained! Just delved into the virtualization game and just tested proxmox. I hope ESXi will work a bit better for me. Whats happens after the 60 days? Will i still be able to use the it or will there be some severe restrictions coming in?

[@robwillisinfo]

After the 60 days there are impactful restrictions that kick in like you can not power on or reset vms, so you don't want to get to this point.

[@CheekyCake]

Thank you!!!

[@khalidsust]

Thank you

[@TechCrazeMod]

Hi! I no can after instal acess de ip. Him not can connect. my version is a 7. I have a query, Do you can do one video step by step if ou use vmware 15 for instalation and how.I think that I am doing something wrong. This is my first test. I mont one pc xeon 24 threads with 32GB ram ans m2 nvme 250GB. I'm learning alone see youtube videos, but in all instalatin not can conect server esxi 7

[@PineNutButter]

i installed esxi7.0 and it cannt detect the hard drives. i when and create a new VM with RAID 5 and still wont work.

[@ChadAmI80]

Thanks that was helpful. I thought you said earlier that the ESXI license was free? Do you have to pay after 60 days to register the license or is that free? Where do you go to license it?

[@robwillisinfo]

ESXi has a free version, but vCenter is not free and will expire after the 60 days. You can get the ESXi license by registering on VMwares website.

[@Zakeusa]

Thanks ✊

[@raymondcharles5580]

I just wonder how much power is that rig of yours drawing?

[@metis_9]

Quick question : do you build your raid array during the install too (if you were installing it to a local server disk), or is this something you’d do either prior or post in the server settings?

[@robwillisinfo]

The array needs to be built before attempting to install the OS. Once it is built, when you boot the OS media for the install, it will see the array as a single drive. Note you may need to load drivers for the controller during the OS install in order to see and use the drive.

[@balla2172]

Where did you get those nice smooth patch cables?

[@coltcalderock3278]

all that kind o stuff ;)

[@kped1135]

Can I install this on my main server? I only have one server but need to run ESXi also.

[@KM-mr2sz]

nice tutorial, so what would happen to your settings if someone stole that USB drive that has the vsphere??

[@robwillisinfo]

You would need to rebuild the ESXi portion - set the ip, license, vSwitches. The VM's and their config files are stored on the datastores that they are located on, so you won't loose any of those settings. One interesting bit though - If the usb was pulled while the server was on, it would just keep running until the server was rebooted since the image is loaded into and ran from memory on boot.

[@jrodrig9212]

Rob Willis could you clone the usb and have it locked away as a spare?

[@alpachino468]

If someone stole the USB drive, you'd track them down and break their legs! Chances are it'll be a sibling...So yeah, take those legs out...!

[@d12duke]

Yes, you can Joe2016

[@ojeantas5180]

well since its already in memory and not needed till you reboot just keep it locked up. leg breakage avoided

[@rdsii64]

What I want to do when I'm finished building my computer, is to install a type 1 hyperviser. Then install my daily driver os ( most likely windows 10 LTSC) in a VM. I then want to create a second VM for just messing with stuff like maybe trying linux, macOs, or who knows. I don't have a second computer to manage stuff from. Please advise. Thank you in advance

[@robwillisinfo]

With ESXi this wouldn't work since you don't actually manage ESXi from the host itself. Instead what I would do is install Windows 10 on your main machines and then run something like Hyper-V (built in to Win 10) or VMware workstation to install and test VMs.

[@Gotallofthem1]

Are USB drives designed to last and be used for booting always the way you have it? Do you have copies of the contents in another USB in case the one you have connected fails or is this something that is not necessary?

[@robwillisinfo]

You are overthinking this a bit, the drive isn't used like a normal OS where you would worry about it constantly reading and writing to the drive, killing the life of the drive. ESXi loads the data from the drive into memory at boot and that is it, it then runs entirely from memory. If the drive would die, I would just reinstall ESXi onto a new drive. The reinstall doesn't take long and there is barely any configuration (mainly setting up the networking) that needs to be done. All of the VM's and their configuration are stored on the other datastores. At the same time, I don't see an issue with keeping a copy of the usb for backup purposes but that is just not something I am doing. In the last 4 or 5 yrs, I have yet to have a usb drive fail on me from being used this way.

[@kolayflooringinternational4631]

when I upload an .iso the status bar stays at 0%. Why is that?

[@Walterz930]

Will this work for booting diskless thin clients

[@shapnamuralidharan1]

how to toggle back to web console after installation?

[@eholocastrosalcedo8845]

I could connect to the ESXi server with another computer in the same network through a web browser as you did, but when I try to connect to the ESXi on a different Network through the web browser, it refuses to connect. What do I need to do?

[@robwillisinfo]

Make you have the proper firewall rules and routes in place. ;)

[@joshfrandsen9526]

What about the reliability about using a USB flash drive instead of a SSD drive?

[@robwillisinfo]

It's really not as hard on the USB as you would think, the entire ESXi image is loaded into memory (RAM) at boot. I've had multiple host running this way for years with no issues.

[@madushanirmal]

thank u

[@kosinskiarek]

Thanks for great video but how do you upload a large ISO like for Server 2012 or 2016. The browser plugin only allows for 4GB. Thanks

[@robwillisinfo]

What browser are you using? Ive heard that IE has this limitation, but chrome shouldn't. Honestly it's been quite awhile since I have had to do it that way. Nowadays I usually store the ISO images on a NFS share and then attach that directly to all of the ESXi hosts.