Registering and managing hypervisors from vCenter Server

How to configure vCenter server and Hypervisor


As we have installed all the required components for the private cloud, Now we need to access our vCenter server and register our hypervisors.s  Various steps involved to regiser and access hypervisors are as listed below:

• Open vSphere client
• Enter ip address of the vCenter Server
• Choose 'use windows session credentials
• Login.

  It logs in to the vCenter server where we will register our hypervisor Esxi.

 

Once logged  in to the vCenter Server, We need to create a Data Center in it within which the hypervisors will be added. Follow the below mentioned steps to achieve the same.

• Click on the 'Datacenters' tab>>New Datacenter>>name  it  

Once Datacenter is created, we need to add the hypervisor in it.

• Right click 'Dcenter' on the left panel>>Add host
• In the host field, enter the ip address of your Esxi server
• enter esxi username and password  >>Next>>Next
• highlight the 'Dcenter' to which this hypervisor will be added>>Next

Esxi hypervisor is added to the vCenter server and now we will provision our first virtual machine.

• Right Click the Esxi server>>Create Virtual machine>>Typical
• Name the virtual machine
• Chose the datacenter to place the virtual machine>>highlight >>Select network>>Next>>Thin provisioned>> Finish.

 

  

 

A new virtual machine will be created with the selected operating sytem.

Next we will provision an instance on AWS