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VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE

TESTING

Hary Cahyono

System Administrator, tifosilinux.wordpress.com

The Faculty of Management, Universitas Persada

Indonesia - YAI

E-mail : h4ry.oop@gmail.com,

harymu_ammar@yahoo.com

Diponegoro Street No. 74, Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta

Abstract

Nowadays, we are continuouing our step to implement

cloud computing by using VMWare Workstation. You could

see my test before in ‘Cloud Computing Guide with

VMWARE’. Then we go to vcenter now for more big case

and requirement. Much more picture than text will see here.

Keywords: Cloud Computing dengan VMWARE -

Panduan dan Implementasi.

INTRODUCTION

Our goal is to simulate cloud with more large scale and

specific requirement, before we are really ready to set them

into the fact. But as usual, i recommend to you to see a little

concept about cloud computing like category, type of

hypervisor and services etc in my previous paper. If you feel

the Eucalyptus very difficult to you, please use Proxmox or

OpenStack. Now we are using eSXi as a host vSphere server

build on VMWare Workstation as a Nested Virtual Machine.

Let’s take a look.

Requirement

You’re require only one notebook with these specification or

more equal than this one;

Hardware: ASUS X450J, intel i7-4710HQ, Memory

12GiB, HDD 1TB, Intel VT-X/ EPT/ AMD-V enabled.

Software:

(Host) Windows 8 64-Bit as a Host, VMWare

Workstation 8.0.0 32-Bit, Web Browser Application.

(Guest) Client Side: VMWare-vclient-all-4.1.0

(Updated to VMWare vSphere@ Client-5.1),

(Guest) Server Side: VMWare-VMvisor-installer-4.1.0

as a vSphere server (also known as eSXi-4.1.0),

VMWare-vCenter-server-Appliance as a .OVF file for

our deployment (Open Virtualization Format) not by

installer file.

If above requirements aren’t clear, i will show you these

simple picture:

For more description, you are able to running all of those

requirement as a single platform by VMWare

Workstation with nested VM method.

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If we have vSphere (eSXi) as a server that running on

VMWare Workstation, we have to access them with

desktop or web based client application (VMWare

vSphere@ Client-5.1). Then, if we have more than one

vSphere server, let’s say 5 server so we must open 5

vclient at least. In order to simplify this complexity, we

are using VMWare vCenter server Appliance. It is only

just 1 tools opened to remote them.

TESTING

First of all steps, make sure you have installed eSXi on

your workstation.

Then you deployed .OVF file for VMWare vCenter

Server Appliance by right click opened it with WMWare

Workstation. Those vCenter had made by used SLES 11

64-Bit or we’ve known that as OpenSuSE linux.

After installing the vCenter, you can access it with web

browser by address https://x.x.x.x:5480/#core_login .

Login with username and password root/ vmware by

default and let’s we wait that process configuration has

been finished.

Know you get the display like these;

Instead of this, the eSXi-4.1 that we’ve installed also can

be accessed by address http://x.x.x.x/ with username and

password root/ <empty> by default.

Honestly, the vCenter also has user interface itself by

access https://x.x.x.x:9443/ . That is what we called

vsphere-client or vmware vSphere Web Client with

username and password root or

administrator@vsphere.local/ <password> that you

have presented it while installing. Here we are the

display:

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We are finished installing VMWare vCenter Server

Appliance and eSXi server/ vSphere server. Know by

running both of them, we will create Datacenter and

Host/ Virtual Machine (that are running on eSXi) by

using VMWare vCenter Server Appliance.

It presumed that you have create Datacenter with name

‘Datacenter Tifosilinux’ and you have connected the

eSXi into vCenter with one host added (named by ‘PASS

XMP’). Even the license key or version from eSXi and

vCenter doesn’t support foreach others, you can use the

evaluation mode.

Create, delete, and manage VM/ Host by VMWare

vSphere Web Client can be more easy right now.

If it is too heavy for your notebook or pc with browser

running TOMCAT addon from vCenter, you can take the

advantage of VMWare vSphere@ Client-5.1 to remote

vCenter, add VM, and manage them.

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It is more easy how to add some VM/ Instance, storage/

datastore or cluster for your cloud computing right now.

Happy hacking

REFERENCES

[1] Cahyono. Hary, “Cloud Computing dengan

VMWARE - Panduan dan Implementasi”. 2015

(Jan): 1-15. Retrieved 7 January 2015.

[2] http://nathangustiryan.wordpress.com/