CREATE VMWARE IMAGE INSTALL
When you've finished, remember to install VMware Tools (for more information, see VMware Tools installation).
CREATE VMWARE IMAGE FULL
Resize the VM console if necessary or go to full screen.Ĭarry out the operating system install as normal. The reiterate, the goal here is to create a customized ESXi ISO image containing the latest patches and a custom firewall rule that is required by the Altaro. In the row for the VM, select the actions menu (three dots) then Reset to reset the VM so that it picks up the virtual CD/DVD.Īfter a short while the VM will start the boot process and pick up the CD/DVD. In the Insert CD dialog box, select the ISO image you want to mount from a catalog, then click Insert. Establish the virtual machines disk size, select whether to store the virtual disk as a single file or split the virtual disk into 2GB files, click Next. In the main VMware Cloud Director interface (not the console), in the row for your VM, select the actions menu (three dots) then Insert Media. Enter a virtual machine name and specify a location for virtual machine files to be saved, click Next. Then, in the card for your new VM, click VM Console.Īs with a physical server, no virtual CD or DVD is available at first boot, so the server will attempt to PXE boot. You can also add more disks.įor a standalone VM, in the left navigation panel, under Compute, select Virtual Machines to view a list of all VMs within the VDC. In the Storage section, set the Storage Policy and Size of storage for the VM. If you want to run virtualisation servers as a VM, you can edit the properties of the VM after it has been deployed and, in the Hardware section, select the Expose hardware-assisted CPU virtualization to guest OS check box.įor example, you can run a Windows 2008 or 2012 server with Hyper‑V, or a VMware ESX host.
You need to understand how well your application can make use of multi-threading.įor Windows, select at least two vCPUs if you think you'll need two or more in the future, as the multi-processor HAL will be loaded as part of the OS build. Remember too, that more vCPUs or RAM won't necessarily make a server faster, and could cost a lot more. Given the flexibility of VMs, and the ability to change the number of vCPUs and amount of memory and disk space on the fly, it's often better to start small as you're not tied by the constraints of a physical server. Although you can build a VM to your own specification in terms of the number of vCPUs and amount of memory and disk space, you'll be billed based on the closest (next highest) match to a UKCloud pre-defined VM size.