VMware-ESXi-6.5

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VMWare ESXi 6.5 installation

久しぶり。2017/11現在は6.5が最新版

  1. Dowload ISO file: VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201701001-4887370.x86_64.iso
  2. Configure root password, fixed IPv4 address, DNS resolver and SSH availability
  3. Access it from your browser, and in my case I got some error below:

Unhandled Exception Unfortunately, we hit an error that we weren’t expecting.

The client may continue working, but at this point, we recommend refreshing your browser and submitting a bug report.

error-img 4. Fix it with the ESXi Embedded Host Client

  1. Go to ESXi Embedded Host Client download page on VMware Lab
  2. And copy the URL of ESXUI offline bundle for 6.x (e.g. http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/esxui/esxui-offline-bundle-6.x-7119706.zip)
  3. SSH to your ESXi host, and execute below commands: ```bash $ wget -P /tmp/ http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/esxui/esxui-offline-bundle.6.x.zip Connecting to download3.vmware.com (23.67.163.51:80) esxui-offline-bundle 100% |******************************************************************************************| 2764k 0:00:00 ETA total 2780 -rw-r–r– 1 root root 2830737 Dec 29 10:42 esxui-offline-bundle.6.x.zip -rw——- 1 root root 40 Dec 29 10:40 probe.session drwx—— 1 root root 512 Dec 29 10:00 vmware-root
$ esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/esxui-offline-bundle.6.x.zip
Installation Result
   Message: Operation finished successfully.
   Reboot Required: false
   VIBs Installed: VMware_bootbank_esx-ui_0.0.2-0.1.3357452
   VIBs Removed:
   VIBs Skipped:

$ esxcli software vib list | grep esx-ui
esx-ui                         0.0.2-0.1.3357452                     VMware  VMwareCertified   2015-12-29

$ rm -rf /tmp/esxui-offline-bundle.6.x.zip
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  1. Then try webUI again from your browser (e.g. https://xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa/ui ), and you should be able to successfully log in and reach top page as below: toppage