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| − | Create a Virtual Machine (VM) in your lab.
| + | Reference the official instruction document in Confluence: [https://confluence.gwava.com/display/PROC/Virtual+Machine+Creation Virtual Machine Creation] |
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| − | ==VMWare vSphere 6.0.0==
| + | There is an update to Windows 10 that disables video on VMs. When installing VMware Tools do a custom installation and do NOT install the video driver. |
| − | After logging into a VM server (see IT about access) you will start by creating a VM.
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| − | *Right-click on your resource pool and choose New Virtual Machine.
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| − | ===Configuration===
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| − | *For Configuration, choose Typical.
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| − | [[File:CreateVM_Config.PNG|center|Configuration]]
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| − | ===Name===
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| − | *Give it a name. You can name it anything but I like my initials, the IP address, program it will be mainly running, and the OS (e.g. SF4_11_retain_sles11.3) so I can distinguish mine from others, then where it is, and what it is for.
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| − | [[File:CreateVM Config.PNG|center|Name]]
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| − | ===Store Location===
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| − | *Choose where to store the VM.
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| − | [[File:CreateVM_Storage.PNG|center|Store]]
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| − | ===Choose OS===
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| − | *Choose the OS it will be running.
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| − | [[File:CreateVM_OS.PNG|center|OS]]
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| − | ===Network Connection===
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| − | *Choose the Network. We have found that the VMXNET 3 adapter has the best performance.
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| − | [[File:CreateVM_Network.PNG|center|Network]]
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| − | ===Disk Provisioning===
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| − | *Create a Thin Provision disk for the OS, data should go on separate volumes which will be created later. This only uses what is needed up to the size allocated.
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| − | **For SLES 11.3 32GB is needed for the OS.
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| − | **For Windows 2012R2 64GB is needed for OS and updates.
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| − | [[File:CreateVM_Disk.PNG|center|Thin Provision Disk]]
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| − | ===Edit Settings===
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| − | *Enable '''Edit the virtual machine settings before completion'''. There are some settings changes that should be made before creating the VM:
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| − | **Remove floppy
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| − | **Increase RAM
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| − | **Add CPU see this for sockets vs cores [http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2013/10/does-corespersocket-affect-performance.html]
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| − | **Add Hard Disk(s) for data (i.e. for Groupwise/Exchange you'll want disks for each post office/Mailbox database, for Retain you'll want a disk each for archive, database, index and logs)
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| − | **Point CD/DVD to Datastore ISO File of the OS to be installed
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| − | ***Enable '''Connect at power on'''
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| − | [[File:CreateVM_DVD.PNG|center|Settings]]
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| − | ===Finish===
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| − | *Press Finish
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| − | *Power On the virtual machine, open the Console and begin installation of the OS.
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| − | *Once the OS is installed, install VMware Tools: found under Guest menu: Install/Upgrade VMware Tools
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| − | Return to [[Retain Training]]
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There is an update to Windows 10 that disables video on VMs. When installing VMware Tools do a custom installation and do NOT install the video driver.
