1 About this guide This guide tells you how to: Use Sophos for Virtual Environments to provide central threat protection for virtual machines (VMs) in a VMware ESXi or Microsoft Hyper-V environment. Use Sophos Enterprise Console to manage Sophos for Virtual Environments. If you are migrating to Sophos for Virtual Environments, see Migrate to Sophos for Virtual. Sophos Firewall Management (SFM) provides powerful centralized management for all your Sophos Firewalls across multiple customers sites.
Guest operating system Windows 2000 and earlier, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and later support VMware Tools.
For Windows 2000 and later, VMware Tools installs a virtual machine upgrade helper tool. This tool restores the network configuration if you upgrade the virtual machine compatibility from ESX/ESXi 3.5 to ESX/ESXi 4.0 and later or from Workstation 5.5 to Workstation 6.0 and later.
- Power on the virtual machine.
- Verify that the guest operating system is running.
- If you connected the virtual machine’s virtual CD/DVD drive to an ISO image file when you installed the operating system, change the setting so that the virtual CD/DVD drive is configured to autodetect a physical drive. The autodetect setting enables the virtual machine's first virtual CD/DVD drive to detect and connect to the VMware Tools ISO file for a VMware Tools installation. This ISO file is detected as a physical CD by your guest operating system. Use the virtual machine settings editor to set the CD/DVD drive to autodetect a physical drive.
- Log in as an administrator unless you are using an older Windows operating system. Any user can install VMware Tools in a Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows ME guest operating system. For operating systems later than these, you must log in as an administrator.
- The AppDefense component is not installed by default. You must perform a custom installation and include that component.
Procedure
- On the host, from the Workstation Pro menu bar, select VM > Install VMware Tools. If an earlier version of VMware Tools is installed, the menu item is Update VMware Tools.
- If you are installing VMware Tools for the first time, click OK on the Install VMware Tools information page. If autorun is enabled for the CD-ROM drive on the guest operating system, the VMware Tools installation wizard starts.If autorun is not enabled, to manually launch the wizard, click Start > Run and enter D:setup.exe, where D: is your first virtual CD-ROM drive. Use D:setup64.exe for 64-bit Windows guest operating system.
- Follow the on-screen prompts.
- If the New Hardware wizard appears, follow the prompts and accept the defaults. Note: If you are installing a beta or RC version of VMware Tools and you see a warning that a package or driver is not signed, click Install Anyway to complete the installation.
- When prompted, reboot the virtual machine.
What to do next
If a new virtual hardware version is available for the virtual machine, upgrade the virtual hardware.
As part of the on-going VMware article series, earlier we discussed about VMware virtualization fundamentals, and how to install VMware Server 2.
In this article, let us discuss about how to install VMware ESXi.
VMware ESXi is free. However, the software comes with a 60 days evaluation mode. You should register on VMware website to get your free license key to come out of the evaluation mode. Once the ESXi is installed, you can either user vSphere Client on the Direct Console User Interface to administer the host.
VMware ESXi is based on hypervisor architecture that runs directly on top of a hardware as shown below.
VMware ESXi is based on hypervisor architecture that runs directly on top of a hardware as shown below.
1. Download ESXi server
Get the software from the VMware ESXi download page.
Following are the various download options available. Select “ESXi 4.0 Update 1 Installable (CD ISO) Binary (.iso)” and burn a CD.
- ESXi 4.0 Update 1 Installable (CD ISO)
- Upgrade package from ESXi Server 3.5 to ESXi Server 4.0 Update 1
- Upgrade package from ESXi Server 4.0 to ESXi Server 4.0 Update 1
- VMware vSphere Client and Host Update Utility
2. VMware VMvisor Boot Menu
Once you insert the ESXi CD and reboot the server, it will display a boot menu with an option to launch “ESXi Installer” as shown below.
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3. VMware ESXi Installer Loading
While the installer is loading all the necessary modules, it will display the server configuration information at the top as shown below. In this example, I was installing VMware ESXi 4.0 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950 server.
4. New ESXi Install
Since this is a new installation of ESXi, select “Install” in the following screen.
5. Accept VMware EULA
Read and accept the EULA by pressing F11.
6. Select a Disk to Install VMware ESXi
VMware ESXi 4.0.0 Installer will display all available disk groups. Choose the Disk where you would like to install the ESXi. It is recommended to choose the Disk0.
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7. Confirm ESXi Installation
Confirm that you are ready to start the install process.
8. Installation in Progress
The installation process takes few minutes. While the ESXi is getting installed, it will display a progress bar as shown below.
9. ESXi Installation Complete
You will get the following installation completed message that will prompt you to reboot the server.
10. ESXi Initial Screen
After the ESXi is installed, you’ll get the following screen where you can configure the system by pressing F2.
In the next article, let us review how to perform the initial ESXi configuration.
In the next article, let us review how to perform the initial ESXi configuration.
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