2. PLANNING
1. 1. Capacity Planning
a. Apps to Run
b. Storage Requirements
c. Snapshots/Backups
2. 2. Networking
a. Ip scheme
b. VLAN
c. Layer 3 Switch Capabilities
3. Environment
a. Physical
b. Cooling
c. Electrical/UPS
4. Other
a. Cost
b. Connection
3. Server
1. VCENTER
a. Vmotion,Templates, Logging
2. ESX
a. Networking (Static IP, VLAN)
b. Security
c. Bios
3. Vsphere
a. Installation (download) 267MB
b. ISO of your client operating System
c. Configurations
i. Map, Persistent
ii. Standard Server Setup
d. VMWare Tools
e. Alt + Ctrl
4. repeat for each Vserver
8. SAN SETUP
1. Configure RAID
a. Access with Default IP
b. Choose RAID type
i. Benefits of RAID 50 (will lose some space)
2. Set up wizard prompt
a. Group Name, Static IP
3. Storage
a. allocate storage and configure options (provisioning, replication)
b. configure Snapshots
4. configure Network
a. Management IP
b. iSCSI pool
c. Set iSCSI connection to each VM