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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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

ESXi is a bare-metal, efficient, and reliable hypervisor running directly on server.

ESXi abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and networking into multiple virtual machines.

ESX/ESXi: Virtualization Platform

Physical and Virtual Architecture Compared

virtual architecture

x86 architecture

VMware vSphere

physical architecture

x86 architecture

operating system

application

ESXi Architecture

Demonstration:

ESXi Installation

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

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:

• A virtual machine’s NIC can connect to a port.

• Each uplink adapter uses one

port. External World

Physical

Switch

operating system

application

Virtual

NIC

Ports

operating system

application

Virtual

NIC

operating system

application

Virtual

NIC

Physical NIC

A virtual network provides the networking for hosts and virtual

machines that use virtual switches.

Different networks can coexist on the same virtual switch. Or

they can exist on separate virtual switches.

Management iSCSI VMotion Virtual Machines

Management

iSCSI VMotion

Virtual Machines

vSwitch Examples

Demonstration:

vNetwork Fundamentals

A datastore is logical storage unit,

which can use disk space on one

physical device or one disk partition,

or span several physical devices.

Types of datastores:

VMware Virtual Machine File System

(VMFS)

Raw device mappings (RDMs)

Network File System (NFS)

Datastores are used to hold virtual

machines, templates, ISO images,

and, in the case of RDMs, raw data.

Datastore

Volume

VM content

ESX host

Datastore

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 machine’s

configuration file describes the

virtual machine’s configuration,

including its virtual hardware.

Avoid using special characters and spaces in the virtual machine’s name.

… guestOS = “winnetstandard” … displayName = “MyVM” (etc.)

MyVM.vmx

virtual machine

What Files Make Up a Virtual Machine?

VM

Folder

Configuration file (<VM_name>.vmx)

Swap files (<VM_name>. vswp)

BIOS file (<VM_name>. nvram)

Log files (vmware.log)

Disk descriptor file (<VM_name>. vmdk)

Disk data file (<VM_name>. flat-vmdk)

Suspend state file (<VM_name>. vmss)

Snapshot data file (<VM_name>. vmsd)

Snapshot state file (<VM_name>. vmsn)

Template file (<VM_name>.vmtx)

Snapshot disk file (<VM_name> -delta.vmdk)

Raw device map file (<VM_name>.-rdm.vmdk)

Displaying a Virtual Machine’s 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

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