To properly use all the features with VMware vSphere 6.0 you need shared storage; this article will go through the step-by-step process of adding NFS and iSCSI datastores using VMware vSphere Web Client. Log on to vSphere Web Client. Click on Hosts and Clusters. Select an ESXi host from the list, click Manage tab, Storage tab and click Storage Adapters. Click on + and select Software iSCSI Adapter. Click OK. Select the newly created iSCSI Software Adapter from the list, click

Once ESXi has been installed and a management IP has been configured the host can be added on to the vCenter server. First a datacentre is created in vCenter Server, next the ESXi hosts are added to the datacentre and then the vSwitch can be configured on each ESXi host. Log on to VMware vSphere Web Client Log on to vSphere Web Client using the administrator account created during the vCenter Server installation, normally this is administrator@vsphere.local. Enter the passwor

When VMware ESXi first starts up it tries to get an IP address from DHCP, if this fails it will automatically generate an IP address on the 169.254.0.0/16 subnet. ESXi hosts should be configured with a static IP address. The following steps show how to configure it on the server console of the ESXi host: Press F2 to bring up the log in screen. Log in as root, use the same password that was created during the ESXi installation and press Enter. Use the arrow keys to select Conf

VMware vCenter server provides central management for all the ESXi hosts within the vSphere environment. The following article goes through the prerequisites and installation of VMware vCenter Server 6.0 Update 2. Install SQL Native Client Insert the SQL Server installation media into the CD-ROM drive and start the Autorun program. This assumes that the VMware vCenter server database will reside on a SQL Server. Click on Installation. Click on New SQL Server stand-alone insta

VMware ESXi is a hypervisor that is installed on to a physical server to run virtual machines including servers and VDI desktops. This article goes through the steps to installing ESXi 6.0 Update 2 on to a server. Boot the machine from the VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 installation media. Wait for the countdown to reach zero or press Enter to continue with the install. Press Enter. Press F11 to accept the EULA. Select the local storage volume to install ESXi on to. The storage can

XenServer is Citrix's own hypervisor used for running virtual machines for server infrastructure, VDI, terminal server environments, etc. The following instructions show how to install XenServer 6.5 on physical hardware. Place the Citrix XenServer 6.5 media in the CD-ROM drive and power on the server. Press Enter at the boot: prompt to continue. Select the keyboard layout from the list and select OK. Select OK. Select Accept EULA. You will get the above message, if hardware v

Citrix XenApp/XenDesktop 7.8 introduced AppDisks allowing applications to be managed separately from the underlining operating system. AppDisks are virtual disks that store all the application registry settings and files separately from the operating system. AppDisks are added to the virtual machine, XenApp/XenDesktop merges the operating system and the AppDisk virtual disks to provide an image with both the operating system and the applications. The AppDisk can be removed fr