Creating a virtual machine in the web interface of VMware vSphere
To create a virtual machine in the VMware vSphere web interface:
- In the web interface of VMware vSphere Client, enter administrator credentials.
- In the left pane, click the icon.
The Hosts and clusters page opens.
- Select the data center and the storage in which you want to create a virtual machine.
The workspace displays the properties window for the selected storage.
- In the control panel, in the Actions drop-down list, select New Virtual Machine...
The Virtual Machine Creation Wizard opens.
- Follow the steps of the wizard:
- Select a method for creating the virtual machine.
- Select the Create a new virtual machine option.
This method allows manually setting up the settings and hardware configuration of the virtual machine.
- Click Next.
The Wizard proceeds to the next step.
- Enter the name and location of the virtual machine.
- In the Virtual machine Name field, enter the name of the virtual machine.
The name must be unique among the names of all existing virtual machines.
- In the folder tree under the text box, select a folder in the host's virtual storage where you want the virtual machine to be stored.
- Click Next.
The Wizard proceeds to the next step.
- Select computing resources.
- In the right part of the window, select a cluster and a resource pool.
- Click Next.
The Wizard proceeds to the next step.
- Select the virtual data storage.
- Select the virtual data storage from the list of available storages.
- Click Next.
The Wizard proceeds to the next step.
- Configure the compatibility with the virtual infrastructure.
- In the Compatible with drop-down list, select ESXi 6.7 U2 and later.
- Click Next.
The Wizard proceeds to the next step.
- Select the guest operating system.
- In the Guest OS Family drop-down list, select Linux.
- In the Guest OS Version drop-down list, select CentOS 7 (64-bit).
- Click Next.
The Wizard proceeds to the next step.
- Set up the hardware configuration of the virtual machine.
- On the Virtual Hardware tab, select the CPU settings group and use the drop-down list to select the number of virtual processors.
The minimum recommended value is 8. You can enter a greater value if you need higher performance from your virtual machine.
Available values depend on the capabilities of the hypervisor.
- Expand the Memory settings group and do the following:
- Specify the amount of RAM that will be allocated for the virtual machine.
The minimum recommended value is 16 GB. You can enter a greater value if you need higher performance from your virtual machine.
- Select the Reserve all guest memory (All locked) check box.
- Expand the New Hard Disk settings group and do the following:
- Specify the amount of disk space that will be allocated for the virtual machine.
The minimum recommended value is 200 GB. You can enter a greater value if you need to store a large database for the event log.
- In the Disk Provisioning drop-down list, select the option for allocating virtual machine files.
- In the New Network group of settings, select the virtual network to which you want to connect the virtual machine.
- In the New CD/DVD Drive settings group, do the following:
- Select the Datastore ISO File drive type from the drop-down list.
This opens the file selection window.
- Select the ISO file that you uploaded before installing the program and click OK.
- In the Status field, select the Connect At Power On check box.
- Click Next.
The Wizard proceeds to the next step.
- Confirm the creation of the virtual machine.
- Verify that the virtual machine settings configured at previous steps are correct.
- If all settings are configured correctly, click the Finish button.
The virtual machine with the defined settings will be created and displayed in the list in the left pane.
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