Lab 4 Part 2 - Operation with the vCenter server (continued)
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Lab 4, part 2 Operation with the vCenter server (continued) This lesson continues to focus on operations with the vCenter server and offers step by step instructions, screen by screen in a lab-based format in the following: Adding hosts to vCenter inventory Logging in with web console to configure directory services
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Lab 4, part 2 Operation with the vCenter server (continued) This lesson continues to focus on operations with the vCenter server and offers step by step instructions, screen by screen in a lab-based format in the following:
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Adding hosts to vCenter inventory
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Logging in with web console to configure directory services
Video Transcription
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Okay. My next task is to add my host
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to my new
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data center training lab too.
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I've removed it from the old data center that it was connected to us. You no longer see anything here.
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I can do this. A number of ways I can use
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right. Click the data center and select at host. I can use control H
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or it can also use this button.
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Excuse me. The button that we see here
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I'll click Add host.
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I'm going to type in the
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Yeah, the address. One of the 2168 1 $68. 100.
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I need my root log in here
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cause the center needs to authenticate to the host in order to
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be able to pull it into the
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data center.
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Now it tells me what my thumbprint is for this host.
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You might want to make a note of this for security reasons.
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In case you change is you want to verify that in the future.
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But I do trust this host, so I'll go ahead and click. Yes.
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It tells me that this host already has some virtual machines on it.
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No license key. I don't have to worry about that right now. I'm still in evaluation mode.
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We also have the option to select lock down mode.
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This keeps users from getting directly into the host.
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We don't want to do that for now, but that is a good security setting,
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which will probably touch on later In the course,
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I select the location for the hosts. Virtual machines that'll be in training. Lap two.
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Get my summary screen.
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I can verify all of my settings.
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Everything looks good.
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Tells me which data stores I have.
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So I will go ahead and finish.
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Now. If I expand training Lab two, I can see
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that I've got
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my host. It says that it's disconnected
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and that that may be in that status for just a little bit until the
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host finishes its initialization.
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I went to the summary tab and you can see now it took a few seconds, but now the summary information is populated.
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I still have my folders here that I created earlier. And if I right click,
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I can now see the V EMS that live on this host.
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Okay, My next task
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is now to use my web console to get into the V Central Server Appliance or V. C. S. A. For short.
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In order to make sure that electric service is is configured,
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I can see that my center viene is running.
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Ah, that is kind of what a bit of a strange thing that does take a little getting used to you when you first start working with
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V Center as a
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an appliance or a virtual machine,
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because I am running the
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the View center server appliance to manage my virtual environment on the same host
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that the center is managing.
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So it's, uh,
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a little strange. Obviously, we can have the center running on a separate
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host. It could be on a dedicated machine dedicated hardware.
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If you have a very large environment, that's probably the best choice for performance reasons.
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But for a small environment like this in a lab setting,
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running the appliance on the same host that I'm managing is perfectly fine.
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So I'll go to a Web browser,
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and I've still got my log in screen here. From my previous session,
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you'll notice that
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we have to go to the I P address for the V. C. S. A and then port 5480
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That's the default port
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for doing maintenance.
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So I'll go ahead and log in.
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Waiting for some of these service is to initialize here.
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Okay, so now we want to look at
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our authentication. We can see
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we've got tabs across the top for different areas of the server appliance.
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We're in the main
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server page.
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I can also look at my network information.
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Since I'm already joined to the domain,
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I can see my hosting VCs a dot PM or local
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tells you my gateway my d n A server which,
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because the same is my, uh,
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active directory server and my
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and T P server
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is such you
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0.1 ton
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shows me my interface name.
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I can set my host name here. Set My name server
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said a static I p or a dynamic I p.
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I've got a secondary de ns server
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specified as well.
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If you use a proxy, you can configure that
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I'm not using a proxy, so I'll leave that one blank
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under your system tab. We get more specific information about this particular device
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and you get a reboot or shutdown button here
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when you're configuring of the center's server appliance. Um, there's a few times where you have to do reboots
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in order for everything to get synchronized properly. So
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that's why I wanted to point out where that button is.
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Looks like there's a new update
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for this particular appliance.
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So it'll do automatic checking for you and let you know
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I can set automatic checking for updates. I can tell it when
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it also has a repositories
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to track with. With vmro dot com.
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I'm not going to install the update right now, but if I did,
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that's where I could click that.
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If you wanna upgrade to a major version, you would paste in a key here and do that,
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and then you set your administrator password.
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Another thing that's important when you're building this applying is to make sure that you have certificate regeneration enabled.
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If you don't do this, then you may get some significant errors after some of the configuration changes.
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OK, getting back to our center server tab
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you want to go to the authentication
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area,
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and this is where you would enable active directory.
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I've already got it enabled, but you just check the box
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type in your domain via and weird out local,
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and in my case, the administrator user
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would be administrator at Vienna, where
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local
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I would type in my password
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and click safe settings once that completes.
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Then when you go back to Italy, it'll say you've joined the domain, and when you come back here,
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you'll see that your
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that you are using active directory.
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When you do configure actual director, you need to reboot once that's completed.
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I've already got it configured, so I will won't have to do the reboot
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Now we'd like to actually log in using the Web client.
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So open a new browser tab.
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We'll go to my same I p address on 68 1 68 1 20
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However, this time
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since I'm logging into
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device using the Web client,
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it's a sure put H t T p s.
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I go to port 9443
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Security warning again about the certificate.
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Now we can see the Web client loading.
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It takes a moment.
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You will see a message at the top about your browser being protected mode.
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The client integration plug in.
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Uh, if you want to install that,
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you need to take your browser out of protective mode
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that's not required for our purposes. So we're going to ignore nor that warning for now. If you do want to use the client immigration plug in,
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then you could actually download that from the bottom. Here. There's a link,
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all right. Otherwise, I'm going to log in to
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VCs. A. Using the Web client
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takes a few moments
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right away. You might notice that I've got expiring license keys, my inventory. That's expected, since I am running an evaluation license
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so I can go ahead and
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close that warning. So this is what the Web client looks like.
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It's Ah, different look and feel than Thievy sphere client.
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So you do have to
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poke around the interface
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a little bit and
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see where everything is
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first. Since I can go to my view center link, I've got my typical areas here.
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I've got a few central server.
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It's called training.
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Have some tabs I can look at
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for that server itself
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tells me how much CPU memory and storage is using summary tabs. Typical items here.
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I can also go back and see my data centers.
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So training lab is the one that I've got my host attached to
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I created training lab to earlier,
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and I connected the host to it.
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But then I moved back to training lab because everything is synchronized for this training center or for this data center,
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you can crazy. Maybe
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data centers as you want.
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You need to have at least one host
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in a data center nor to put V ems there.
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So everything will be doing from this point. Forward will be within training lab.
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I can look at my hosts. Tab.
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I've got my usual things here. My summary.
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I can monitor the host. I can look at my performance and we'll get into all of these,
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Um,
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all these different options
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a little bit later.
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All right, that concludes lab number four.
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