Summary

The setup and configuration of the latest VMware ESX 3.5 and its VirtualCenter will be presented. This documentation is split into many sub-entries due to the quantity of information.

Tags: Virtualization, VMware ESX, VirtualCenter, VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB), Vmotion, Consolidation.

At the current time, VMware ESX 3.5 and VMware ESX server 3i are the latest product of the famous virtual ESX server of VMware. VMware ESX server 3i doesn’t have the Service Console or Console Operating System (COS), but thin-hypervisor. We have another entry for ESX 3i.

Install Virtual Infrastructure Management 3.5

All screenshots are self-explained.

Install VMware Converter Enterprise

Configure Licenses

Configure Datastores

Here I use the old SCSI disks with VMs on them created from VMware ESX 3.0.x, so I need to import them to my new DataCenter.

Configure Networking

Install VM client: Fedora 8