How to build View5.2into One server

- Poor man’s home cloud labo -

Jan.26th, 2014Kenzo.nagahisa@gmail.com

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0.Background • Poor man has only one server

• He wanted to study View5.2.

• There is a good information how to install View5 but it requires a lot of resources. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4798125164

• He tried to install View5.2 onto his one server and got it.

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1.Required hardware & software • CPU: needs EPT capability– See previous my presentation– http://www.slideshare.net/leopard.android/fun-with-nested-esxi

• CPU Cores/Memory: as much as you can– I got a DELL PowerEdge R610 from an auction site.

• CPU: Xeon X5570 ( EPT OK )• CPU cores: 16 (physical 2*8 and hyper-threding )• Memory: 24G

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http://ark.intel.com/ja/products/37111/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5570-8M-Cache-2_93-GHz-6_40-GTs-Intel-QPI

2.Target diagram

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Base Hypervisor(dell-r610)

view01-ad view01-cs view01-vc dell-r610-esxi1

dell-r610-esxi2

VDwin7

VDwin7

VDwin7

VDwin7

Active Directory

Viewcommunication

server vCenter

Virtual Desktops

3.Installation steps(1)1. To Install base ESXi

Install vSphere5.5 Hypervisor(HV) on to physical server.

Keep “trial mode” for the license. View management servers will work on this.

2. To Install 3 View management servers. Install 3 Windows2008R2(x64) VMs onto the ESXi.

view01-ad : Active Directory/DNS/DHCP view01-cs : Connection Server view01-vc : vCenter

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3.Installation steps(2)3. To Install Active Directory/DNS

Logon to view01-ad as an administrator execute dcpromo.exe Follow the instructions of WIZARD

Forest root domain: view01.local

4. To let view01-cs/–vc to join “VIEW01” Logon to view01-cs/-vc as an administrator configure networks with view01-ad as DNS host Change computer properties to join “VIEW01”

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3.Installation steps(3)5. To configure DNS server

Logon to view01-ad as an administrator execute “DNS Manager” Create necessary DNS records

PTR for view01-ad A and PTR for dell-r610-esxi1/-esxi2

6. To configure DHCP server execute “Server Manager” and add DHCP role Configure DHCP scope for Virtual Desktops(VDs)

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Fig.1 View01-ad/cs/vc

Fig. 2 DNS

3.Installation steps(4)7. To install vCenter onto view01-vc

Logon to view01-vc as an VIEW01\Administrator Mount media and execute “Simple Install” which

includes vCenter Single Sign-On vSphere Web Client vCenter Inventory Service vCenter Server

Because the VM for view01-vc is slow, installer often asks to stop the installer script.

Push “NO” to continue. Install included MSSQL for vCenter Database.

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3.Installation steps(5)8. To install flash player for Web Client on view01-vc.

Get offline installer if view01-vc cannot reach Internet http://www.adobe.com/jp/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html

Or connect Internet temporaly and install flash player

9. To add AD account to Identity source By default, Web Client only accept Administrator@vsphere.local Can add “Identity source” for AD account

10. To install 2 ESXis onto base HV(dell-r610) Nested ESXi = VHV( Virtual Hypervisor ) Nested ESXi on vSphere5.5 requires VM ver10

vSphere Client cannot handle VM ver10 vSphere Web Client for view01-vc does Use view01-vc to control base hypervisor This is the reason of “trial mode” license for base HV

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3.Installation steps(6)11.To create 2 VHVs by using Web Client

Login view01-vc via. Web Client Login ID: Administrator@vsphere.local

Create Datacenter “Base” and add base HV as host Create 2 VMs on “Base”

dell-r601-esxi1/-esxi2 4 vCPU and 8G memory VM ver10 (other 64bit OS)

SSH login to base HV(dell-r610) by using SSH client on PC Modify vmx file for dell-r601-esxi1/-esxi2

Add VHV.enable = “TRUE” This is important to enable VHV feature

Install vSphere5.5 HV on dell-r601-esxi1/-esxi2

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Now it’s ready to install View. Enjoy !!