Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- VMware vSphere ESXi 6.x on Dell EMC PowerEdge Systems Installation Instructions and Important Information Guide
- Introduction
- Installing vSphere 6.0
- Download Dell EMC customized ESXi image
- Installing, Enabling and Disabling ESXi
- Overview - Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory
- Enable Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory
- Overview - Dell Fault Resilient Memory
- Enabling Dell Fault Resilient Memory
- Installing ESXi on flash media
- Installing ESXi on the hard drive
- Installing ESXi on the BOSS-S1 device
- Enabling or Disabling Internal SD card
- Configuring one-time boot to ESXi
- Configuring boot sequence to ESXi
- Downloading patches and updates for ESXi
- Creating vCenter Server installation media
- Installing vCenter Server
- Deploying vSphere 6.0
- Configuration back up and restore procedures
- Licensing information
- Troubleshooting ESXi
- Getting help
Chapter 1: Introduction................................................................................................................... 5
vSphere 6.0 architecture......................................................................................................................................................5
Overview of ESXi architecture............................................................................................................................................ 6
Chapter 2: Installing vSphere 6.0..................................................................................................... 8
Download Dell EMC customized ESXi image.....................................................................................................................8
Important information for the Dell EMC-customized ESXi image.............................................................................8
Installing, Enabling and Disabling ESXi................................................................................................................................ 9
Overview - Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory ..........................................................................................................9
Enable Dell NUMA Fault Resilient Memory.................................................................................................................. 9
Overview - Dell Fault Resilient Memory...................................................................................................................... 10
Enabling Dell Fault Resilient Memory...........................................................................................................................10
Installing ESXi on flash media........................................................................................................................................ 11
Installing ESXi on the hard drive....................................................................................................................................11
Installing ESXi on the BOSS-S1 device.........................................................................................................................11
Enabling or Disabling Internal SD card......................................................................................................................... 12
Configuring one-time boot to ESXi..............................................................................................................................13
Configuring boot sequence to ESXi.............................................................................................................................13
Downloading patches and updates for ESXi.....................................................................................................................13
Creating vCenter Server installation media...................................................................................................................... 13
Installing vCenter Server..................................................................................................................................................... 14
Chapter 3: Deploying vSphere 6.0...................................................................................................15
vSphere configuration using Dell EMC Fibre Channel SAN............................................................................................16
vSphere configuration using iSCSI SAN............................................................................................................................16
Booting ESXi......................................................................................................................................................................... 17
Configuring the password................................................................................................................................................... 17
Configuring Lockdown mode..............................................................................................................................................18
Managing management network services........................................................................................................................ 18
Chapter 4: Configuration back up and restore procedures.................................................................19
Backing up the configuration of your ESXi host.............................................................................................................. 19
Restoring configuration of your ESXi host....................................................................................................................... 19
Chapter 5: Licensing information.................................................................................................... 21
License evaluation................................................................................................................................................................ 21
vSphere licensing..................................................................................................................................................................21
Administering license keys...................................................................................................................................................21
VMware Product Licensing ................................................................................................................................................21
Chapter 6: Troubleshooting ESXi....................................................................................................23
ESXi installation....................................................................................................................................................................23
ESXi does not boot or displays a no OS found message at start up ..................................................................... 23
Purple or pink screen while booting or running your ESXi........................................................................................23
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