You will want to disconnect the ISO from the virtual machine so that you don’t get any errors when trying to migrate the VM using VMotion in the future. Once finished, we need to disconnect the ISO and install VMware tools. Run through the installation steps as you would on any other hardware. Click on the name of the Ubuntu virtual machine we just created.Ĭlick Console then Open console in new tab.Now that we’ve create the Ubuntu VM, we are now ready to install the operating system on the virtual hardware. We are now ready to install the Ubuntu operating system on this virtual machine. Navigate to the Ubuntu ISO that was uploaded previously, click on it and then click Select.Ĭlick Finish to create the Ubuntu virtual machine. Scroll down to CD/DVD Drive 1, select Datastore ISO file then click Browse… Select the datastore to store the VM on and then click Next. Select Ubuntu Linux (64-bit) for the Guest OS version.The new virtual machine wizard will open. With the ISO now on the ESXi host, we are ready to create the Ubuntu virtual machine. Wait for the ISO image to finish uploading then click Close. Select the Ubuntu Server ISO on your local machine.
Upload the Ubuntu Server ISO to the ESXi datastoreĮnter the IP address of your ESXi host into a web browser and then login using your username and password.Įxpand the Storage tree view on the left pane and then click on the datastore you want to upload the ISO to.
The first thing we need to do is download the Ubuntu Server 18.04 ISO to your local machine and then in the next steps, we will upload it to the ESXi datastore. The following steps have been tested on an ESXi 6.7 host running on a MacBook Pro with VMware Fusion.
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