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VMware
vSphere®5.0
Evaluation Guide
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Table of Contents
AboutThisGuide.............................................................. 
IntendedAudience ............................................................ 
SystemRequirements ......................................................... 
HardwareRequirements .......................................................
Servers ....................................................................
Storage ....................................................................
Networking ................................................................
SoftwareandLicensingRequirements ..........................................
VMwarevSphere ...........................................................
GuestOperatingSystems ...................................................
EvaluationGuideEnvironmentSetup .............................................
ServerConfiguration ..........................................................
LogicalNetworkSetup ........................................................
StorageSetup. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
VirtualMachineSetup ........................................................
VMwarevSphereEvaluationGuideVolumeOne –Worksheet ................
vSphereEvaluationTasks ..................................................... 
HighAvailability ............................................................. 
Introduction .............................................................. 
Prerequisites ............................................................. 
EnablingHA.............................................................. 
ConnecttoVirtualServer ..................................................
GotoClusterSummary ....................................................
EditClusterSettings .......................................................
WaitforTasktoComplete ..................................................
VerifyingVMwareHAEnablement ..........................................
HAStatusScreen ..........................................................
VirtualMachineProtectionState ........................................... 
HostProtectionState ......................................................
VMwareHAAdvancedOptions .............................................
AdmissionControl ............................................................
VirtualMachineOptions ....................................................
VirtualMachineMonitoring .................................................
StorageHeartbeats ....................................................... 
ValidatingVMwareHAOperation .......................................... 
HostFailure .............................................................. 

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HostIsolation ............................................................ 
DisablingVMwareHA ......................................................
ConnecttoaVirtualServer.................................................
GototheClusterSummary ................................................ 
EditClusterSettings .......................................................
WaitforTasktoComplete ................................................. 
GettingFamiliarwiththeNewCommand-LineInterface..........................
Introduction ................................................................ 
TheNewesxcliCommand ..................................................
esxcliCommand-LineSyntax ...............................................
RemoteesxcliCommandAuthentication.....................................
EnablingAccesstotheESXiShell .......................................... 
EnablingtheESXiShellfromtheDCUI...................................... 
EnablingtheESXiShellfromthevSphereClient ............................. 
EnablingSSHAccesstotheESXiShell ......................................
EnablingSSHfromtheDCUI................................................
EnablingtheSSHfromthevSphereClient ...................................
vSphereClientNotificationWhentheESXiShellandSSHAreEnabled .........
InstallingthevCLI..........................................................
InstallingthevCLIonWindows .............................................
InstallingthevCLIonLinux ................................................
InstallingthevCLIwiththevMA.............................................
SampleesxcliCommandsRunLocallyfromtheESXiShell ................... 
SampleesxcliCommandsRunRemotelyfromthevCLI .......................
FormattingesxcliOutput .................................................. 
ThelocalcliCommand......................................................
BringingItAllTogether ................................................... 
vSpherePowerCLIbyExample ................................................
Introduction ...............................................................
Prerequisites ..............................................................
InstallvSpherePowerCLI ...................................................
GettingStartedwithvSpherePowerCLI .....................................
ConnectingtoavSphereHostorvCenter....................................
UsingvSpherePowerCLI ...................................................
vSpherePowerCLISummary ...............................................
EvaluatingtheESXiFirewall ...................................................
Introduction ...............................................................

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EvaluationOverview .......................................................
Prerequisites ..............................................................
StoppingSSHServicetoPreventAccess ....................................
TestingAccesswithSSHServiceStopped ...................................
CreatingFirewallRulestoBlockSSHAccess....................................
TestingSSHFirewallRules ................................................. 
ImageBuilder ................................................................
Introduction ...............................................................
ImageBuilderPrerequisites.................................................
PreparationTasks..........................................................
InstallvSpherePowerCLI ...................................................
DownloadtheESXiOineBundle ..........................................
ExtracttheESXiOineBundle .............................................
StartanImageBuildervSpherePowerCLISession............................
ImporttheESXiOineBundle ............................................ 
DisplaySoftwareDepots .................................................. 
DisplayVIBs...............................................................
DisplayImageProfiles......................................................
CreateaNewImageProfile .................................................
CreateaNewImageProfilebyManuallySelectingIndividualVIBs .............
CreateaNewImageProfilebyCloninganExistingImageProfile.............. 
RemovingVIBsfromanImageProfile ...................................... 
CompareImageProfiles ................................................... 
ExportImageProfile ...................................................... 
ExportAsanOineBundle ............................................... 
ExportAsaBootableISOImage.......................................... 
ProductDocumentation.................................................. 
UsingStoragePerformanceStatistics .........................................
Introduction ..............................................................
MonitoringPerformanceStatisticsofaDatastore........................... 
HelpandSupportDuringtheEvaluation .......................................
VMwareContactInformation ................................................ 
ProvidingFeedback ........................................................ 

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About This Guide
The purpose of the VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide, Volume One, is to support a self-guided, hands-on
evaluation of VMware vSphere® 5.0 (“vSphere”) features usable by all VMware vSphere customers. The
companion guide, the VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide, Volume Two, is intended to highlight vSphere 5.0
features primarily targeted at larger, more complex deployment environments.
Intended Audience
This guide is intended to cover evaluation cases that are suitable for IT professionals who fulfill the following
requirements:
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scale deployment.
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greater consolidation while maintaining service levels.
System Requirements
To ensure the best experience when using this guide, the user will need to configure hardware and software as
detailed in the following section.
Hardware Requirements
This guide makes the following assumptions about your existing physical infrastructure:
Servers
You must have at least three dedicated servers capable of running VMware ESXi™ 5.0 to provide resources for
this evaluation.1
Storage
You must have shared storage with enough space available to allow the creation of three 100GB dedicated
datastores. Shared storage can be SAN or NAS. This document assumes SAN-based storage.
Networking
You must have at least three virtual networks configured to separate virtual machine, vMotion, and vSphere
management. These networks can be set up on a single virtual switch with multiple port groups, or across
multiple virtual switches. For the purpose of this evaluation guide, the configuration includes a single vSphere
standard switch with three port groups.
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For more detailed requirements, see the following table.
HARDWARE MINIMUM WHAT’S USED IN THIS
GUIDE
ESXi Three ESXi/ESX servers
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Memory – 6GB
Network – 2x 1GB network
adaptor
Three ESXi servers (Cisco UCS
1.3.1)
CPU – Two quad-core “Nehalem”
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Memory – 48GB
Network – 4x 10GB network
adaptor
Storage One datastore (100GB) Three datastores (Fibre Channel
– 100GB each)
Network One VLAN for carrying virtual
machine trac; one VLAN for
carrying management trac
Separate VLANs for ESXi
management, vMotion, and
virtual machine trac
Software and Licensing Requirements
This guide makes the following assumptions about your existing software infrastructure:
VMware vSphere
This volume of the VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide requires vSphere 5.0 and licensing for Essentials Plus.
If the user intends to also complete the exercises in Volume Two of the VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide, a
license for Enterprise Plus will be required. The vSphere 5.0 evaluation license available from the VMware
evaluation portal provides Enterprise Plus functionality for 60 days and is the best choice for performing the
vSphere 5.0 evaluations.
Guest Operating Systems
This volume of the VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide does not place any specific requirements on guest
operating systems, other than ensuring that you can deploy running virtual machines. The user is free to deploy
any VMware-supported operating system (OS) in the virtual machines. The VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation
Guide, Volume Two, will require five or six virtual machines running Windows 2003 or Windows 2008.

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Evaluation Guide Environment Setup
The VMware Technical Marketing lab was built using a combination of Cisco UCS server hardware and EMC
CLARiiON CX-4 Fibre Channel (FC) storage. The environment consisted of eight identical four-node “pods,” with
most pods configured as a three-node ESXi cluster and a fourth node for management. In many cases,
additional resources have been configured in the Technical Marketing test-bed configuration to support other
evaluation projects, and are present in the diagrams. The user can configure only what is called for in the
following section and can safely ignore additional resources in screen shots and topology diagrams. The
following picture shows the Technical Marketing test rack.
EMC CLARiiON CX4-120
Flare version 4.30.000.5.509
15x 600GB 15k SCSI
5x 200GB SSD
10x open slots
Cisco UCS 1.3.1(p)
32x Dual Quad-Core “Nahalem” Proccessors
48GB Memory
Dual port Palo cards
1x 146GB Local HDD
Configure with:
4x 10GB network adaptors
2x 4/8GB HBAs
Slot 1 of each chassis reserved for core management

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Server Configuration
The VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide calls for three modern server-class systems with adequate processors
and memory to host 6–8 minimally configured virtual machines used for testing. The servers used for this
evaluation do not need to be overly powerful, just reliable and on the vSphere 5.0 HCL.
Each server must have at least 2x 1GB or 2x 10GB network adaptor and proper connection to shared storage.
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3x 100GB FC LUNs, volume
shared across hosts in pod
(used in Evaluation Guide steps)
Linux vCenter Appliance
(VM can reside in cluster or on
external management cluster)
3x ESXi 5.0 hosts
Logical Network Setup
The VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide, Volume 1, uses a very simple network configuration consisting of three
logical networks. The first is for vSphere management trac, including vSphere High Availability (VMware HA).
The second is for VMware vSphere® vMotion® and the third is for virtual machine trac. Each logical network is
configured as a port group on a standard switch, with a corresponding VLAN configured to provide physical
isolation of the network trac.

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TM-POD<xx>ESX<xx>
vmnic0
vSwitch0
VMK0: Management network
VLAN 2912
Production02
VLAN 3001 (VM)
vMotion
VLAN 3002 (TBD)
Not used in Evaluation Guide
vmnic1
vmnic2
vmnic3
Port groups
Name/VLAN
On the vSphere side, the network configuration looks like the following:

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Storage Setup
The VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide, Volume One, uses a storage configuration consisting of three 100GB
FC LUNs presented to each host, enabling creation of three datastores.
Virtual Machine Setup
The VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluators Guide, Volume One, uses a total of six to seven virtual machines for testing.
These can be Linux or Windows virtual machines. It is up to the user to configure virtual machines that can be
brought up to a running state for testing. The following diagram shows VM_01 through VM_07 configured in the
Technical Marketing test lab: