The address for your web browser is: nt/Ĭongratulations you have successfully installed and configured the VMware vSphere vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5.ĭuring this series of articles, VMware released VMware vSphere 5.5 and 6.0 and VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5 and 6.0.
This is not recommended and I will show you in this article how to assign a static IP Address. If you have a DHCP server on your network, the VMware vCenter Server Appliance will use a DHCP IP Address when it first starts.Open a console to the VMware vCenter Server Appliance.Before we can add our ESXi host to the VMware vCenter Server Appliance and use the vCenter Server to manage our hosts and virtual machines, we need to quickly configure the appliance.Configure the VMware vCenter Server Appliance Power on the VMware vCenter Server Appliance and wait for the VMware vCenter Server Appliance to startup.ģ. When the Import has completed, you will have a new virtual machine called "VMware vCenter Server Appliance" in the host inventory.Click Finish, and wait for the import to complete.I recommend using a Thick Provision Eager Zeroed virtual disk. Select a datastore with at least 125GB of free storage for the appliance.Enter a name for the appliance or accept the default, and click Next to continue.Browse to the location of the VMware-vCenter-Server- Appliance- 5.
See my Experts Exchange article Part 3: HOW TO: Create an ISO CD-ROM/DVD-ROM image (*.iso), and MD5 checksum signature, for use with VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) to see how to check that these checksum signatures are correct for your offline bundle upgrade.Ģ.
Download the VMware vSphere vCenter Server Appliance OVA from VMware.
Here are the steps to install and configure your software:ġ. VMware vSphere vCenter Server Appliance is based as a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. Only VMware vCenter Server for Windows is available as a 60 day evaluation, so make sure you have the licensed version. I'm afraid the VMware vSphere vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) download is only available to Licensed users of VMware vCenter Server, and is not available as a 60 day evaluation. In this tutorial article, I will show you how to install and configure the VMware vSphere vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) 5.5 on an ESXi 5.5 Host Server in just four easy steps.