step by step install configuration of vcenter server 5.0 on a windows host

Step by Step Installation and Configuration of vCenter 5.0

vSphere 5.0

SR INFOTEC

September 18, 2011

Authored by: Rohit Kakkar

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The Virtual Machine that we will install vCenter Server 5.0 in is called vCenter50 in the Lab Manager

configuration that you deployed out to complete this Lab.

1. Prerequisite 1.1. Domain Controller

1.2. Windows 2008 R2 64 bit

1.3. vCenter 5.0 (VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.0.0-456005)

1.4. .Net framework 3.5 SP1

1.5. Windows installer 4.5

1.6. Visual J#

2. .Net framework 3.5 SP1 installation

Here is what the VM should look at the moment.

Mouse over the vCenter50 Tab at the top of the VM and select CTRL – ALT – DEL ( or press the keys

CTRL – ALT – INS from within the VM) key to login to the host. The password is Vmware2005 for the

Administrator user.

You may receive a message to Activate Windows – Select Activate Later

Go to Add Features Wizard and select .Net Framework 3.5 .1, Click Next


Click Add Required Role Services

Click Next


Click Install

Click Close


3. Installation of vCenter 5.0

We have copied the vSphere 5.0 installation media to the following location for you

E:\software\vSphere50-install

Open this folder and double click the autorun.exe to launch the vSphere 5.0 installation menu.

The VMware vSphere 5.0 Installation Menu should appear.


The first component that we are going to install is vCenter Server.

Select vCenter Server option from the VMware Product Installers on the left hand side and click the

Install button.

Note the Prerequisites are listed on the right hand side of the screen (.Net 3.5, Visual J# and Windows

Installer 4.5)

Select vCenter Server from the Right hand side of the screen and the installer will start.

You will first have to select the language for the installation

Click OK to continue.

You may see the following dialog box appear. It is important to note that the installer has detected

that IIS web server is installed on this host and could be using common ports (Port 80) that vCenter

Server will use. You may not see this in a customer environment, if IIS Web Services is not installed.

This is just for illustrative purposes.


Click Yes to continue

At the Welcome to the Installation wizard for VMware vCenter Server click Next

You will then be asked to accept the End-User Patent Agreement. Click Next.


Select I agree to the terms in the license agreement and click Next.

In the Customer Information screen, enter VMware for the Organization and you can leave the

License key blank. We will cover licensing in another Lab.

Click Next to continue.


Select Install a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express instance

Click Next to continue

In the vCenter Server Service window leave the Use SYSTEM Account ticked. If the Fully Qualified

Domain Name is not complete, then fill it in as VC5.SRGROUP.COM




In the vCenter Server Linked Mode Options, select create a standalone VMware vCenter Server

instance.


Click Next to continue

On the Configure Ports screen, we will have to change the HTTP Port. If you remember at the start of

the installation process, the installer detected that Port 80 was in use.

So we will change the HTTP Port to Port 81. The rest of the Ports are Ok.

Change the HTTP Port to Port 81 and click Next to continue.

You will see the following message appear as a warning since we have changed the HTTP Port from

the default.


Click Ok to continue.

At the configure Ports for Query Service, click Next to continue.

At the vCenter Server JVM Memory screen, select the Small Inventory Size and click Next to continue.


At the Ready to Install the Program screen

Select this option to increase the number of ephemeral ports available.

If your vCenter Server manages hosts on which you will create more than 2048 cloned virtual

machines, selecting this option prevents the pool of available ephemeral ports from being exhausted.

Click the Install button.


The installation will begin.

There should be no more User interaction required.

Once the Installation is complete, you will see the following screen.

At the installation Completed screen, click the Finish button.

We can now check that the vCenter Server Services are running.

Click Start -> Run and in the run box type services.msc. This will launch the Windows Services.

Scroll down to the Services that start with VMware and you will see that the following services are

started.

1. VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices

2. VMware VirtualCenter Server

3. VMwareVCMSDS ( ADAM Service )

4. VMware vSphere Profile-Driven Storage Service

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