Question

Installation of Vmware Vcenter Server Appliance (VCSA) on Linux

Answer 1

Download and install the VCenter Appliance for Linux

The first thing we must do is download the Appliance.

I do not know about you, but when I read Appliance , I went to the VMware Marketplace, where all the Appliances are published. But it is not, we must download it from the VMware website itself as the other components of the vSphere Suite . With a registered user, we can download a fully functional vSphere 60-day trial version, the vSphere client and, at the consumer's discretion, the vCenter for Windows or the vCenter Appliance on Linux .

The vCenter Server Appliance download consists of 3 files. A system disk (4GB), a data disk (40GB) and an OVF file (Open Virtualization Format) to create the VM itself from the two discs mentioned above. Once we have these three files, from the vSphere Client console, in the File menu we select "Deploy OVF Template ..."

A window will appear to select a file, and this is when we must indicate the location of the OVF file. Keep in mind that this location will not be a datastore of the vSphere itself, but we will have to have the three files on our computer or in another location accessible from our computer.

We will select the OVF file . Once the OVF file has been selected, it is necessary to give "NEXT", "NEXT" as to the Office. It will ask us for the name, the path where we will store the virtual machine, the type of disk and then it will show us the summary. We have a check below where we can ask the vSphere to turn on the machine once it finishes deploying.

In the OVF deployment summary, we click on "FINISH" to start the deployment.

What the system will do now will be to create the virtual machine with the pre-configurations that it already has from the factory (CPU / RAM / Options) and decompress the disk files to store them in the datastore that we indicated previously. If the network goes decently this process should not be more than about 5 minutes.

Displaying VM with OVF format, next we will see the glorious window that ends in "Successfully" . No matter what the previous text says, but it ends in Successfully ... What this means is that the installation terminated successfully.

Very well with these steps now we have the vCenter in our vSphere on and ready to give it a few touches before going into production.
The missing configurations can be done either by accessing the vCenter by console or by a browser. In this case we will change the IP address by console and the rest of the configurations will be done using the browser.

The tasks to be performed are:

-Configure the network parameters (IP, Gateway, DNS, Host Name)

-Accept the EULA

-Configure the Database

-Define the time zone

-Add the record of type A in the DNS of our domain

-Add the vCenter to the domain

-Start vCenter services

-Change the password of the root user

-Reinitiate the Appliance

-Connect us to the vCenter using the vSphere Client

By performing these tasks we can start using our VCENTER under the LINUX platform. In another Tutorial I will develop the steps in more detail on these steps to Configure before starting to use it in production.

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