VMware vSphere 5 QuickStart Series Part 1: Getting Started with VMware ESXi

Andrew Ellwood, Senior Technical Trainer and Lead Instructor, Americas Tech Lead Team, VMware

Session Logistics

First of three webcasts designed to provide a high level overview of basic install and configuration tasks.

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Parts of these presentations are from vSphere 5: Install, Configure, Manage AND/OR vSphere 5: Whats New Find out schedules, enroll in advanced training, learn about VCP, VCAPDCA, VCAP-DCD and VCDX certification

Session Objectives

Demonstrate & discuss ESXi installation Demonstrate browser access to an ESXi host Demonstrate vSphere Client based navigation Demonstrate & configure vNetwork elements Demonstrate & discuss configuration of vStorage elements Demonstrate basic construction of virtual machine using virtual hardware version 8

ESX/ESXi: Virtualization Platform

ESXi is a bare-metal, efficient, and reliable hypervisor running directly on server. ESXi abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and networking into multiple virtual machines.

Physical and Virtual Architecture Compared

physical architecture

virtual architecture

application

operating system x86 architecture

VMware vSphere x86 architecture

ESXi Architecture

Demonstration: ESXi Installation

What is a Virtual Network? What is a Virtual Switch?

A virtual network provides the networking for hosts and virtual machines that use virtual switches. A virtual switch:

Directs network traffic between virtual machines and links to external networks. Combines the bandwidth of multiple network adapters and balances traffic among them. It can also handle physical network interface card (NIC) failover. Models a physical Ethernet switch:

application
operating system
Virtual NIC

application operating system

Virtual NIC

application operating system

Virtual NIC

Physical NIC

A virtual machines NIC can connect to a port. Each uplink adapter uses one port.
Ports

Physical Switch

External World

vSwitch Examples

Different networks can coexist on the same virtual switch. Or they can exist on separate virtual switches.

iSCSI Virtual Machines

VMotion Management

Management

iSCSI

VMotion

Virtual Machines

Demonstration: vNetwork Fundamentals

Datastore

A datastore is logical storage unit, which can use disk space on one physical device or one disk partition, or span several physical devices.
ESX host

Types of datastores:

VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) Raw device mappings (RDMs) Network File System (NFS)

VM content

Datastore

Volume

Datastores are used to hold virtual machines, templates, ISO images, and, in the case of RDMs, raw data.

Demonstration: vStorage Access & Configuration

What is a Virtual Machine?

A virtual machine is: A set of virtual hardware on which a supported guest operating system and its applications run A set of discrete files A virtual machines configuration file describes the virtual machines configuration, including its virtual hardware. Avoid using special characters and spaces in the virtual machines name.

virtual machine

MyVM.vmx

guestOS = winnetstandard

displayName = MyVM (etc.)

What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine?

VM Folder

Configuration file Swap files BIOS file Log files Disk descriptor file Disk data file Suspend state file Snapshot data file Snapshot state file Template file Snapshot disk file Raw device map file

(<VM_name>.vmx) (<VM_name>. vswp) (<VM_name>. nvram) (vmware.log) (<VM_name>. vmdk) (<VM_name>. flat-vmdk) (<VM_name>. vmss) (<VM_name>. vmsd) (<VM_name>. vmsn) (<VM_name>.vmtx) (<VM_name> -delta.vmdk) (<VM_name>.-rdm.vmdk)

Displaying a Virtual Machines Files

Click on a VM. On the Summary tab, right-click the datastore on the Resources pane. Click Browse Datastore to browse its files.

Using the Storage Views Tab to Display Files

Click the Storage Views tab. Select Show All Virtual Machine Files from the menu.

Virtual Machine Hardware

Demonstration: Virtual Machine Creation

Thank You
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