Mastering vSphere 7 - How To Create Virtual Machines With VMware ESXi GUI and PowerCLI

[@billerin7995]

basic, yet important. thanks for that mate!

[@sysadmintutorials]

Thanks Billerin, you're welcome. Working on vCenter 7 next, will be done for Jan.

[@jimzlopez]

Great video and all you video line up! It has helped me a lot!

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Jimmy, that's great to hear, thank you so much, glad I was able to help

[@sirusvirtus5885]

Thanks for your work 😁👍

[@sysadmintutorials]

you're welcome Sirus, more to come early next year :)

[@sirusvirtus5885]

Awesome 👍😎

[@sysadmintutorials]

Thanks Sirus, there will be a vcenter 7 video coming out shortly. Thank you for being a subscriber :) You should get notified once the vcenter 7 video drops

[@ingecarlos-livinghope]

Hi... I really liked this video. Thanks a lot! May I ask you something about this? On minute 9:26 you can see under General information section "host name" and "IP address" I found a VM with some problems one of them is. In my VM there are no any information on this fields... why?

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Carlos, firstly glad you liked the video and you are most welcome. To see this information you need to have VM tools installed within the VM.

[@ingecarlos-livinghope]

Hi! @@sysadmintutorials thanks for you answer... There is VMtools installed on the VM... I think something else is wrong realted to the networking... because I have another 4 Vms in "invalid" state. You think this is realted?

[@sysadmintutorials]

Could be storage as well. What you can do is ssh to the esxi host that holds the vm and type: tail -f /var/log/vmkernel Then go back and try to start the vm, you will see live in the ssh window what is going on

[@ingecarlos-livinghope]

@@sysadmintutorials yes! thank you ! It was the storage it was offline. I don´t know why but it was.

[@rinku-blogadmin]

appriciate dear bro

[@sysadmintutorials]

You're welcome Vijayswian

[@bobjake168]

When I create VM, I did not see datastore and device for selection. How to solve this issue?

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Chanthearith, if you do not see a datastore, means that the underlying disks are not big enough. This means you will need to mount a datastore from a storage device such as iscsi, nfs, fc, etc Or create a vsan

[@localgoon5307]

I followed the instructions but when try to connect to my exsi host I get the 'connect-viserver' command was found in the module 'vmware.vimautomation.core' but the module could not be loaded. Can you please provide a way to fix this?

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi there, looks like the powercli module is not installed. Can you confirm that you have powercli installed by going to powershell and typing: Get-Module -Name VMware.* | Select-Object -Property Name,Version

[@localgoon5307]

@@sysadmintutorials It worked thank you. Your videos are going to help me get out of my Jr. role and right into a full sys admin. 😆

[@sysadmintutorials]

Awesome, glad to here. That's the trick, skill up and add value :)

[@VietTran-kq5wt]

Really work. But i can't move the mouse on the vm just created. Can you help me. Thanks

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Viet, you need to install vmtools

[@VietTran-kq5wt]

Could you tell me how to bulk create virutal machine. Thanks you

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Viet, best way would be via a powershell script. Have the script loop through x amount of vm creations

[@VietTran-kq5wt]

@@sysadmintutorials in the script i want to create windows 7. At line 27 $guestid ="....?" What can i write in it. Thanks you

[@VietTran-kq5wt]

@@sysadmintutorials i try $guestid ="windows7Sever64Guest" but it create windows sever 2008 R2 @@

[@sysadmintutorials]

Use this website as a reference for GuestID's www.vmware.com/support/orchestrator/doc/vro-vsphere65-api/html/VcVirtualMachineGuestOsIdentifier.html If you are looking for windows 7 it will be: windows7Guest

[@VietTran-kq5wt]

@@sysadmintutorials my project all done. Thanks for your help

[@tlourey]

Just noticed the new intro...

[@sysadmintutorials]

haha yeah added it in the last 2 videos :)

[@tlourey]

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[@rotkababa]

Had the error below when creating VM on ESXi7 host . FyI, this is nested virtual machine Error message - "Failed to power on virtual machine Windows. The host does not support intel VT-x." I have enabled the VHV from the VM cpu/memory settings but it won't still power on. Any suggestions on this?

[@sysadmintutorials]

Hi Rotkababa, have you turned on hardware virtualization from the host bios ? Make sure that is turned on first, then secondly on the nested esxi vm, make sure cpu hardware virtualization is enabled.

[@rotkababa]

@@sysadmintutorials Thanks...Im good now.. Steps followed - I disabled hyper-v, virtual machine platform and windows hypervisor platform from windows feature. Then from the workstation pro - I go to the esxi host - edit settings - processors - virtualization engine - tick Intel vt-x/ept...

[@sysadmintutorials]

Excellent Rotkaba, glad you got it sorted and thanks for letting us know the steps you took to get it going