May 2021 – Carl Webster

06 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Install the VMware vCenter Server Appliance

[Updated 27-Aug-2021] Now that the host has local storage for a Virtual Machine (VM), we can install the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). I downloaded the VCSA 7.0 U2 ISO, mounted…

Carl Webster May 31, 2021

VMware

05 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – VMware ESXi Host Configuration

[Updated 27-Aug-2021] Now that the host has a static IP address, you can begin more of the host's configuration. You do the minimal configuration for now. Just enough to allow…

Carl Webster May 28, 2021

VMware

04 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Initial VMware ESXi Host Configuration

[Updated 8-Nov-2021] Now that the ESXi 7.0 host installation is complete, it is time for the initial host configuration. In this article, you complete the following steps: Give the Host…

Carl Webster May 27, 2021

VMware

03 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Install VMware ESXi 7.0

[Updated 27-Aug-2021] Installing VMware ESXi 7.0 is easy as there are not many installation options. It is almost a "Next, Next, Install, Finish, Reboot" process. The first thing is to…

Carl Webster May 26, 2021

VMware XenServer

02 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Configuring a Synology 1817+ NAS for NFS, ESXi 7.0, and XenServer 8.2

[Updated 27-Aug-2021] In the "Introduction" article, I made the following statements: I decided to go with Network File System (NFS) instead of Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) for storage.…

Carl Webster May 25, 2021

Active Directory DHCP DNS

01 Building Webster’s Lab V2 – Introduction

[Updated 8-Nov-2021] On September 9, 2019, I published the Building Webster's Lab V1 article series that used vSphere/vCenter 6.7 U3 and XenServer 8.0. This is a follow-up series on building…

Carl Webster May 24, 2021