|
gi joe
Guest
|
 |
« on: December 24, 2010, 02:04:37 AM » |
|
Playing with esx in my VM lab. Loaded ESX, then gone to it's IP in browser to download Vsphere. Connected to the ESX with vsphere. But, as totally new to it all, for the life of me fine the option or an option to connect the ESX to the domain.
Googled but can't find any straight forward guides.
It is esx 4.0
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
gi joe
Guest
|
|
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2010, 02:06:36 PM » |
|
Spoken to someone and they said you don't really connect it. You connect VCentre to AD. Because ESX is Linux so won't connect to AD.
Well that's kinda what I understood. They said with on ESX server you'll see no benifit connecting it to AD so it doesn't need to be.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Wooster
Wall Eyed Wanker
Administrator
Alcoholic
Good Guy/Gal Points. -518
 Offline
Posts: 5550
'An how faust kin it ging?'
|
|
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2010, 05:46:42 PM » |
|
It's all gobbledegook to me mate.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
keasy
Administrator
Alcoholic
Good Guy/Gal Points. 2
Offline
Posts: 92224
Winter is coming!
|
|
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2010, 07:27:13 PM » |
|
I don't speak freaky deaky Dutch either  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
 "I just think most forums are populated by a rather high percentage of cocks ," - King Dazza. |
|
|
|
|
gi joe
Guest
|
|
« Reply #4 on: December 24, 2010, 09:50:27 PM » |
|
Bored, not sure you're really interested or know already and just taking the Christmas pee  but... You can run Windows 7 then VMWare Workstation and all your VMs inside it. But problem is Windows 7 using up all those resources and the CPU. So, how about we use a Linux, txt based Distro that uses hardly any resources and leaves them all free for all the VMs. Thus ESX was created  But ESX is complicated, I don't understand it, it's Linux and command line  no worries, just go to the ESX server in IE Mine is 10.0.0.80 and download the GUI manager for it, which is VSphere. Now you can be in Windows, use VSphere that is on your machine not the ESX server and connect to the ESX server using it, and having a nice lovely easy to use GUI to manage the ESX and all the VMs on it.  Turns out VSphere 4.1 is the one that allows you to connect to AD. Benefit is just security mainly I think, as forces you to authenticate with an AD account only. |
|
|
|
« Last Edit: December 24, 2010, 09:52:24 PM by gi joe »
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
corroded
|
|
« Reply #5 on: December 25, 2010, 06:10:45 PM » |
|
This is kind of funny just on the point that I'm currently trying to install ESX4.1 on my old server. Had to buy a new network card though, as the current one isn't supported!
I want to do some memcached tests for sessions, it's that or build a brand new server, and network lol... two VM's would do the trick.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
Wooster
Wall Eyed Wanker
Administrator
Alcoholic
Good Guy/Gal Points. -518
Offline
Posts: 5550
'An how faust kin it ging?'
|
|
« Reply #6 on: December 25, 2010, 06:35:28 PM » |
|
..pair of bloody 'softies'.  |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
gi joe
Guest
|
|
« Reply #7 on: January 04, 2011, 01:36:22 AM » |
|
New setup. ESXi 4.1 running from a SD card giving all 2TBs of the HDD free for VMs. Nice Ordered two 4GB USB sticks to maybe replace the SD card because got given a £10 Amazon voucher for Christmas and didn't know what to buy |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
corroded
|
|
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2011, 01:00:34 AM » |
|
Finally got this all sorted now... got a dev ubuntu desktop box (I like the ubuntu terminal), and 3 vms with various purposes so I can get testing on the balancing shizzle.
Surprisingly painless after I got through the hardware issues... primary thing being it really hates Realtek network cards.. [advice: buy an intel one, it'll be worth the £20 in saved stress], and motherboards [advice: make sure the whitebox install guides greenlight your chipset...otherwise you are screwed]. Also, don't bother ever trying to set up ESXi to run from a Flash Drive to install off. If you've got a drive, and no cable. Buy that cable. It's a finickity rat bastard, basically.
Need to find out how to reference my old 500gb drive to use as a datastore... only the first 300gb was found (though admittedly... it'll be a while before that's an issue). I accidentally set up a few VMs without thin provisioning on (think of it like an auto expanding torrent, doesn't reserve space)
-edit- found that option. vSphere doesn't have alot of options compared to the enterprise editions... well... they are more hidden in the non enterprise version at very least.
Now to have some fun setting up memcache, and get building all that shit I've wanted to... since I've got a week or so off coming up (only had 18 days this year and still got to the last month with 5 free)
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
corroded
|
|
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2011, 12:42:53 PM » |
|
Next project, get OSX on VMWare... even thinking about buying OSX :O (It's only £20)
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
corroded
|
|
« Reply #10 on: March 09, 2011, 02:01:29 PM » |
|
Boo can't do it on the work ESX as I need to install a base ISO or something... which requires some delicious SSH access to the ESX which I don't have =[
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
corroded
|
|
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2011, 12:33:14 AM » |
|
Right Things to note. You can enable the SSH options inside VMWare. They are required to install the Darwin Bootloader. Configuration, Security Profiles -> Preferences. Enable Remote Tech Support Vmware vidThe Darwin Bootloader is found here (courtsey of Donk) Rip your OSX Disk. This isn't as simple as it sounds. I had to use about eight things to get it to work, but the one that actually worked is ISOBuster, though Roxio worked at work. Most Windows burners can't read the file format, and read it as a CD instead. You're looking for an 8gb ISO. Follow this guide. http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=51502If it turns out like me, and you've never installed OSX before... and are a little perturbed by the fact there is no HDD to install on, Disk Utility in the menu allows you to format it. My OSX is just installing now =] |
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
corroded
|
|
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2011, 03:52:13 PM » |
|
Give yourself at least 30gb if you plan to install the iOS SDK and Xcode... my 20gb VM is quite full with just the installer, OSX and the Android SDK...
XCode and iOS SDK is 12gb on it's own.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
gi joe
Guest
|
|
« Reply #13 on: March 12, 2011, 12:20:47 PM » |
|
Running fine off the USB stick I got.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
corroded
|
|
« Reply #14 on: March 12, 2011, 03:57:50 PM » |
|
Installing it to a USB stick is fine, getting the ISO onto a USB stick and making that bootable is a different story all together.
|
|
|
|
|
Logged
|
|
|
|
|
|
