On the “Network Type” we can select any option, because we will have to change it later, no matter what we select now: We could go higher here, depending on our laptop’s hardware:įor memory size, again the minimum is 2GB, but we could go above: On the “Processor Configuration” screen, we select one for “Number of processors” and two for “Number of cores per processor”. Next we give a name and specify location for the VM:
#Vmware esxi 5 on laptop iso#
Now we browse for an ESXi 5.1 ISO image and Workstation will detect what OS is in the ISO: On the “Choose the Virtual Machine Hardware Compatibility” screen we click “Next”: Perhaps we should use 192.168.0.0/24 or similar networks, but this will do for the lab.įrom the Workstation we select “File->New Virtual Machine” and start the wizard. For example we won’t be able to reach anything that belong to the 1.1.1.0/24 segment from our laptop. We should have in mind that these settings will break communications to real IP addresses used here. Now we make sure that each connection has proper IP settings. Right click a network, selecting “Rename”, repeated for each connection will eventually yield to this situation: We will rename all connections, so it is clearer to us which network is for which purpose. When we are done, within a network connections we should see all our networks: We repeat the process for all other networks. When we click “Apply” our settings should look like this: Then we make sure that the “Host-only (connect VMs internally in a private network)” option is selected, the “Use local DHCP service to distribute IP address to VMs” deselected, the “Subnet IP” is 1.1.1.0 and the “Subnet mask” is 255.255.255.0. We click “Add Network”, then select VMnet1 for our management network and click “OK”. Then we will add our networks to match our diagram. This is not what we want, so we will first delete all networks by selecting each of them and clicking “Remove Network”. We select “Edit->Virtual Network Editor”. Now it’s time to start the Workstation and go to the “Virtual Network Editor”. So we deselect “Help improve VMware Workstation” and click “Next”. Right now we don’t want to participate in VMware’s improvement program. We deselect “Check for product updates on startup”. Let’s leave a default installation location and click “Next”.
We will be OK with the “Typical” installation. Let’s begin …Īfter starting the installer we click “Next”.
So, we will create the lab that is depicted in the following diagram: We can do this on our laptops! For labing something out before production, for preparing an exam, … Perhaps we want our test environment to travel with us.
#Vmware esxi 5 on laptop install#
Let’s say we want to learn a VMware vSphere products, such as ESXi server, vCenter server, HA, vMotion, FT, … We could do that with two physical servers on which we would install ESXi hypervisor, but we don’t have servers to spare, we don’t want extra heat generated and electricity consumed in our datacenter.
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