Cloud Computing Guide with VMWARE Vol. 2, No.

1, 7 January 2015: 1-4

VCENTER SERVER APPLIANCE

TESTING

Hary Cahyono
System Administrator, tifosilinux.wordpress.com
The Faculty of Management, Universitas Persada
Indonesia - YAI
E-mail : h4ry.oop@gmail.com,
harymu_ammar@yahoo.com
Diponegoro Street No. 74, Jakarta Pusat, DKI Jakarta

Abstract
Nowadays, we are continuouing our step to implement
cloud computing by using VMWare Workstation. You could
see my test before in Cloud Computing Guide with
VMWARE. Then we go to vcenter now for more big case
and requirement. Much more picture than text will see here.

Hardware: ASUS X450J, intel i7-4710HQ, Memory

12GiB, HDD 1TB, Intel VT-X/ EPT/ AMD-V enabled.
Software:
(Host) Windows 8 64-Bit as a Host, VMWare
Workstation 8.0.0 32-Bit, Web Browser Application.
(Guest) Client Side: VMWare-vclient-all-4.1.0
(Updated to VMWare vSphere@ Client-5.1),
(Guest) Server Side: VMWare-VMvisor-installer-4.1.0
as a vSphere server (also known as eSXi-4.1.0),
VMWare-vCenter-server-Appliance as a .OVF file for
our deployment (Open Virtualization Format) not by
installer file.
If above requirements arent clear, i will show you these
simple picture:

Keywords: Cloud Computing dengan VMWARE Panduan dan Implementasi.

INTRODUCTION
Our goal is to simulate cloud with more large scale and
specific requirement, before we are really ready to set them
into the fact. But as usual, i recommend to you to see a little
concept about cloud computing like category, type of
hypervisor and services etc in my previous paper. If you feel
the Eucalyptus very difficult to you, please use Proxmox or
OpenStack. Now we are using eSXi as a host vSphere server
build on VMWare Workstation as a Nested Virtual Machine.
Lets take a look.
Requirement
Youre require only one notebook with these specification or
more equal than this one;

For more description, you are able to running all of those

requirement as a single platform by VMWare
Workstation with nested VM method.

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If we have vSphere (eSXi) as a server that running on
VMWare Workstation, we have to access them with
desktop or web based client application (VMWare
vSphere@ Client-5.1). Then, if we have more than one
vSphere server, lets say 5 server so we must open 5
vclient at least. In order to simplify this complexity, we
are using VMWare vCenter server Appliance. It is only
just 1 tools opened to remote them.

Know you get the display like these;

TESTING
First of all steps, make sure you have installed eSXi on
your workstation.

Then you deployed .OVF file for VMWare vCenter

Server Appliance by right click opened it with WMWare
Workstation. Those vCenter had made by used SLES 11
64-Bit or weve known that as OpenSuSE linux.

Instead of this, the eSXi-4.1 that weve installed also can

be accessed by address http://x.x.x.x/ with username and
password root/ <empty> by default.
Honestly, the vCenter also has user interface itself by
access https://x.x.x.x:9443/ . That is what we called
vsphere-client or vmware vSphere Web Client with
username
and
password
root
or
administrator@vsphere.local/ <password> that you
have presented it while installing. Here we are the
display:

After installing the vCenter, you can access it with web

browser by address https://x.x.x.x:5480/#core_login .
Login with username and password root/ vmware by
default and lets we wait that process configuration has
been finished.
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We are finished installing VMWare vCenter Server

Appliance and eSXi server/ vSphere server. Know by
running both of them, we will create Datacenter and
Host/ Virtual Machine (that are running on eSXi) by
using VMWare vCenter Server Appliance.

Create, delete, and manage VM/ Host by VMWare

vSphere Web Client can be more easy right now.
If it is too heavy for your notebook or pc with browser
running TOMCAT addon from vCenter, you can take the
advantage of VMWare vSphere@ Client-5.1 to remote
vCenter, add VM, and manage them.

It presumed that you have create Datacenter with name

Datacenter Tifosilinux and you have connected the
eSXi into vCenter with one host added (named by PASS
XMP). Even the license key or version from eSXi and
vCenter doesnt support foreach others, you can use the
evaluation mode.

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It is more easy how to add some VM/ Instance, storage/

datastore or cluster for your cloud computing right now.
Happy hacking

REFERENCES
[1] Cahyono. Hary, Cloud Computing dengan
VMWARE - Panduan dan Implementasi. 2015
(Jan): 1-15. Retrieved 7 January 2015.
[2] http://nathangustiryan.wordpress.com/
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