VMware ESXi 5.0 Installation and RWC2 Tips and Tricks White Paper

Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction to VMware ESXi ............................................................................................ 1
1.1 What is VMware ESX? ................................................................................................... 1
1.2 What is VMware ESXi? .................................................................................................. 1
1.3 Comparation between ESX and ESXi ............................................................................ 1
1.4 Why do we need ESXi? ................................................................................................. 1
2. ESXi 5.0 Related RAID Operations ................................................................................... 3
2.1 RAID Configuration on Server Board ............................................................................. 3
2.2 Make ESXi 5.0 Installation Disk for 2208 Chip based RAID Controller Driver ............... 13
2.2.1 Preparations ......................................................................................................... 13
2.2.2 Install vSphere PowerCLI ..................................................................................... 14
2.2.3 Add RAID Driver to the ESXi 5.0 Depot and Export Installation ISO file ............... 19
2.3 VMware ESXi 5.0 Installation and Configuration on Server .......................................... 27
2.3.1 VMware ESXi 5.0 installation on Server RAID virtual drive ................................... 27
2.3.2 VMware ESXi 5.0 Network Configuration ............................................................. 34
2.4 Operating System Installation and Configuration on Client ........................................... 41
2.4.1 Client operation system installation ...................................................................... 41
2.4.2 Client Network Configuration ................................................................................ 46
2.5 Use RWC2 on client to control the RAID controller on Server ...................................... 50
2.5.1 RWC2 installation ................................................................................................. 50
2.5.2 Install LSI Provider on VMware ESXi 5.0 .............................................................. 55
2.5.3 Change the client hosts file .................................................................................. 57
2.5.4 Use the RWC2 on client to control the RAID controller on server. ........................ 59
3. Backup ..............................................................................................................................62
3.1 Enable Intel
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Virtualization Technology ........................................................................ 62
3.2 About the Hosts file ...................................................................................................... 62
3.3 About the Server Memory ............................................................................................ 64