In today’s post we’ll look at adding your primary ESXi host (this is the host that holds your nested environment) to the vCenter server and configuring it up.
Just before we add the primary host we’ll be needing a Datacenter.
1. Log in using an account that has permission to configure the environment.
2. Select Home and the Hosts and Clusters
3. Right click on the VCSA we created and select New Datacenter.
4. Give it a logical name and click OK.
Now to add the primary host.
1. Right click the newly created Datacenter and select Add Host.
2. Add in the hostname or IP address of the Primary host and select Next.
3. Enter in the Username (most likely root) and the password you use to administer this host. Click Next.
4. Check the host summary and click Next. Note that I already have some VM’s created and they have shown up in the Virtual Machines pane.
5. Select a license key, if you have one installed. Click Next.
6. Leave lock down mode disable for now. In later posts we’ll be ssh’ing into the hosts to do a few things and have a poke around. It’s usually my preference to leave lockdown mode disabled unless I have a specific reason not to do so.
7. Select your Datacenter and click Next.
8. Review the host detail and select Finish.
OK so now we’ve added the first host we’ll want to setup networking (next post) for our nested hosts. Just before we get into that, have a look the Mac learning fling here and William Lam’s blog post about it here. I would recommend getting that installed.