In this section:
To install
You must follow the BIOS settings recommendations for the particular server. Refer to BIOS Setting Recommendations section for guidance.
Make sure all your NICs are physically plugged in (link light on) before creating your VM. Otherwise, when you perform the ISO, an incorrect port mapping occurs (logical to physical), and your SBC does not function properly.
Perform the following steps to create new
Login as user root on VMware vSphere client.
The vSphere Client main window appears.
In VMware vSphere Client main window, click Getting Started tab. Click Create a new virtual machine.
Select Custom in Configuration window, and click Next. Provide a Name for your
Avoid special characters for name.
From the Storage screen, select a datastore1 and click Next. Ensure datastore has at least 100 GB or more space. This datastore is required to store all log-related data files.
Select Virtual Machine Version: 11. Refer to For VMware for more information.
From Guest Operating System screen, make the following selections, and then click Next:
Select Linux as the Guest Operating System.
Select Debian GNU/Linux 6 (64-Bit) from Version drop-down menu.
From CPUs screen, make following selections, and click Next. (In the following screenshot example, 4 cores are chosen). For CPU, memory configuration details, see For VMware.
Number of Virtual sockets: 1
Number of cores per virtual socket: 4 (depending on whether all virtual NICs are used)
From the Memory screen, assign memory for the virtual machine, and then click Next. For fewer than 6000 calls, the minimum reservation must be 10 GB. Anything more than 6000 calls require at least 14GB vRAM. Refer to SBC SWe Performance Metrics for more information.
Define Virtual Machine network interface connections (NICs) using following options from the drop-down menus. Then click Next to continue.
Select first network adapter (NIC 1:) for management interface. For example, the label can be MGMT which is created using Configuring vNetwork Standard Switches (vSwitches).
Select fourth network adapter (NIC 4:) for packet interface 1. For example, the label can be PKT1.
These network adapters and labels are already created on the ESX host server. If you are installing for the first time on new ESX host server, these network adapters and corresponding labels (MGMT, HA, PKT0, PKT1) needs to be created. For details, see Configuring vNetwork Standard Switches (vSwitches).
Make sure that Network Adapters are mapped exactly in the following order as shown below:
Select Adapter type as VMXNET 3 for all interfaces (The VMXNET 3 virtual network adapter has no physical counterpart. VMXNET is optimized for performance in a virtual machine).
Ensure all Connect at Power On check boxes are checked. This must be Power On always.
From the SCSI Controller screen, select LSI Logic Parallel as the SCSI Controller option, then click Next to continue.
From the Select a Disk screen, select Create a new virtual disk option, then click Next to continue.
From the Create a Disk screen, make the selections described in the substeps below.
In Capacity section, assign at least 100 GB or more disk space.
In Disk Provisioning section, choose only Thick provisioning Eager Zeroed option:
ThickProvision Lazy Zeroed - Allocates the requested hard disk (virtual) during the VM creation. This type of disk pre-allocates and dedicates a pre-defined amount of a space for a virtual machine's disk operations, but it does not write zeroes to a virtual machine file system block until the first write within that region at run time.
ThickProvision Eager Zeroed (recommended) - Pre-allocates and dedicates a user defined amount of space for a VM disk operations.
Thin Provision - Creates virtual hard disk during runtime (on write operations). This provides more optimal hard disk usage, but it has some performance impact until it creates maximum requested virtual hard disk.
In Location section, select Specify a datastore or datastore cluster and click Browse... Select the datastore or NFS where ISO image is available.
Click Next to continue.
From the Advanced Options screen, keep the default value SCSI (0:0) and click Next. The default virtual device node is SCSI (0:0).
From the summary screen, review your VM settings and click Finish. If needed, click Back to return to the screen in question and make necessary adjustments
When you are satisfied with your settings, click Finish to complete the VM creation.
The virtual machine is created under host IP address with the specified configuration. See example screen:
This creates the virtual machine.
Select the host IP address from left-pane and click Configuration Tab. From the right-pane, click Virtual Machine Startup/Shutdown displayed in Configuration Tab.
The following screen displayed.
Click Properties link displayed towards the top-right window.
Select the Allow virtual machine to stat and stop automatically with the system check box.
The Startup Order screen is enabled.
Select the VM, which you want to automatically start and click Move Up.
The selected VM is displayed underneath Automatic Startup.