Installing ESXI 6.7 on a Dell PowerEdge R620 | Beginnings of my Ultimate Homelab Setup
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- In this video I am installing VMWARE ESXI 6.7 on my Dell PowerEdge R620. This is step two in creating my ultimate homelab!
Me: Do not install the hypervisor on the main virtual disk you created..
Also Me: I broke 3 USB drives so let's install this on the main virtual disk...
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I have been looking for setting a raid in my r620. I had no clue with to do with this machine. then I found your install esxi on your r620 then I see you have a esxi eve-ng. I just wanted to say I love you! you made this day the best I have had in my never ending networking journey!
Very nice. I'll also give props to Rufus for writing out USB boot drives from ISOs.
I just obtained my Poweredge R620 a few days ago and already have it running ESXI 7.0 with 11 VMs. I boot from a USB stick plugged into the internal port.
My particular server is one of the later ones. It has two E5-2660V2 Xeons (10 cores per) and 128gb of RAM. I have the H710p RAID controller, currently am on a pair of 1tb 7.2K Sata drives. Upgrading to a set of four 900gb 10K SAS drives thanks to a friend of mine, also in IT who has surplus spares. Clean sailing from start of install to finishing my last VM migration from the old server.
Very happy with mine. It's a great solution for someone with a homelab on a budget.
That server has some serious horsepower. Sounds like you are already putting it to work. Gotta love the home labs! (when everything goes smoothly). :)
I commented on your last video in regards to what you did here. Let me know what you think
Wow why is this channel not having the subs it deserves .... I really loved your content thank you so much ❤️
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoy it!
Brilliant video. I have watched a few videos about installing ESXi but this is by far the easiest to follow. Thanks mate.
You're welcome!
Just took over a new role at my job and need to learn this. I've been on the fence, but this pushed me to go find that dell blade on ebay to add a poweredge to my home lab rack. Thanks for the upload(s)!
Dude! You got this! LFG!!!!!
Awesome Video, This helped me a lot! Thank you!
Nice setup , i am looking to do a setup of my own soon. Very clear explanation
You’ll have a lot of fun for sure! Thanks for watching!
I like your space working...
Thanks!
Great video. Could also have used the Virtual Drive iDRAC option so you could have installed ESXi without the need to flash the image to USB.
Thanks for the tip!
Great video Aaron! Are you able to install ESXI 7.0 on the R620?
Nice🤩😎 what do you run on your server?
Is that loveland ? Thanks for the video
No problemo!
Dude I really like ur house decore, very much vibes, also I'm trying to do this on a 4 socket R810 poweredge hahahahahahaha, is that the basic password idrac or is the default something else hahaha nvm I kept watching
you should make more viedos man
What is the benefit of loading it onto the internal USB device rather than straight onto the main disk?
Also interested
As far as "benefits" go, I would say that keeping the OS and the storage on different disks is just a good way to maintain some sort of fault isolation. Loading the OS directly to the datastore can be a bit wonky at times.
Good question. I was wondering the same thing. I figured the answer would be something along those lines. I'm about to install 7 on my R620. Now pondering if i should do the same.
@@leoingledid u end up installing on internal usb or disks?
@@notsrynot I just loaded it onto the main disk array.
Is it possible to instalo directly into disk instead of using the USB?
How do you view the VM license? BTW, this tutorial is awesome!
Thanks! Which VM?
@@AaronEngineered I downloaded 7.0
What is different in the custom Dell/EMC image compared to the regular vSphere image?
You know, I am actually unsure... but I would rather go with the custom image if it exists. Ive ran both in the past. Cheers!
@@AaronEngineered and what is you're reasoning for the custom image? I'm assuming because it was made for that actual hardware, but just curious.
Gee Rufus would've saved about 7mins of this setup!
Rufus rules!
can you show how to configure the vmware such that you can assign certain #'s of CPUs to a certain virutal machine and then another have all CPUS assigned
Do you need a license for idrac?
Does the USB drive that you're installing ESXI on have to be that big? What's the recommended size?
I think it has to be at least 8.... I think....it's really just the size of that image that you are worried about.
Is that server generally pretty loud?
When turning on YES, it sounds like an airport. But after that its pretty calm unless you are running a TON of stuff.
did you try to update the firmware to see if that would fix the usb issue?
I did - but then I was too deep and really just wanted to get this thing up and running.
Hi how do you licence esxi ?
Two ways, pay for it, or just don't :)
this is why you get 2 146GB disks and put it in raid 1
Those are some biggggg HDD's
is this applicable for esxi 7.0 also?
It is!
Yes it is. Do note that the H310p is not supported in ESXI 7.0. The H710p is supported and works fine.
@@ngtflyer Good info, thanks for that!
I don't think u can install ESXi 6.7 in 1GB flash drive 😂. Go with at least 16GB to be safe.
I like to think I'm living on the edge of reality hahaha