VMWare

VMWare ESXi¶

FLL¶

ESXi Host Licence 6.7: MH4A7-2U1DK-R8F80-008RH-0TV66
ESXI Host License 7.0: JM2AJ-4C250-H8CG9-08CU0-CJQ0M

Macmini Late 2012¶

Macmini6,2
Part Numbers: MD387xx/A; MD388xx/A, MD389xx/A
2.3GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 (Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz), 9.2GHz
16GB RAM
2 x 250GB SSD
(1) Thunderbolt 1

Storage¶

Internal (Macmini)
250GB Apple SSD SM256E S121NYND200111 (datastore1, extent 0) - REMOVED 07/20/2020
250GB Apple SSD SM256E S1AANYNDB03861 (datastore1, extent 1) - REMOVED 07/20/2020

Thunderbay 4
A: 8TB Seagate Iron Wolf WKD14XTP (hdd1)
B: 8TB Seagate Iron Wolf WKD1AXXE (hdd2)
C: 3TB Seagate ST33000651AS 6Gb/s 7200rpm 9XK0AP6J (hdd4)
D: 3TB Seagate ST33000651AS 6Gb/s 7200rpm 9XK0AJRM (hdd5)

Thunderbay Mini 4
A: 1TB Samsung 860 EVO S3Z8NB0M135463X (ssd1)
B: 1TB Samsung 860 EVO S599NE0M827993L (ssd2)
C: 120GB Intel - NOT USED
D: 4TB Seagate ST4000LM016 6Gb/s 5400rpm W800MJAZ (hdd3) - REMOVED 07/20/2020

FLL Storage¶

location	datastore	type	size
FLL	hhd3	HDD	18TB
FLL	nvm1	M.2 Gen 3	1TB
FLL	nvm2	M.2 Gen 3
FLL	nvm3	M.2 Gen 4	4TB
FLL	nvm4	M.2 Gen 4	4TB
FLL	nvm5	M.2 Gen 4	4TB
FLL	nvm6	M.2 Gen 4	4TB
FLL	ssd3
FLL	ssd4
FLL2	hhd1	HDD	18TB
FLL2	nvm1	M.2 Gen 3	1TB
FLL2	nvm2	M.2 Gen 3
FLL2	nvm3	M.2 Gen 4	4TB
FLL2	nvm4	M.2 Gen 4	4TB
FLL2	nvm5	M.2 Gen 4	4TB
FLL2	nvm6	M.2 Gen 4	4TB
FLL2	ssd1

Hosts¶

FLL (Primary)¶

Hypervisor: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 22348816
Model: 30BDS2H800
Processor Type: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz
Logical Processors: 80
NICs: 4
Virtual Machines: 14

FLL2 (Backup)¶

Hypervisor: VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 21424296
Model: 30BDS2RQ00
Processor Type: Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6148 CPU @ 2.40GHz
Logical Processors: 80
NICs: 4
Virtual Machines: 14

ATL Mounted Storage¶

location	server	mount	size	store	folder/vmdk

Setup¶

Advanced System Settings on vCenter 6.7 with MacPro¶

VMkernel.Boot.hyperthreadingMitigation = true

Network Adaptor Setup¶

Select Private-1 in ATL

VMXNET3 is recommended, E1000 on legacy

FreeBSD note: em0 changes to vmx0 in /etc/rc.conf network adaptor setting (change before rebooting with VMXNET3 adaptor). Windows note: uninstall old ethernet adaptor under hidden hardware before changing new adaptor to static IP.

VMWare Tools Setup¶

Linux¶

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools
sudo pkg install open-vm-tools

Mount CD and Install VMWare Tools¶

sudo -i camcontrol devlist

It should looke like this:

<NECVMWar VMware IDE CDR10 1.00>   at scbus1 target 0 lun 0 (cd0,pass0)
<VMware Virtual disk 1.0>          at scbus2 target 0 lun 0 (pass1,da0)

Mounting CD¶

mkdir -p /media/cdrom
mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0 /media/cdrom

Install VMWare Tools¶

ls /media/cdrom/
manifest.txt                 vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz

cd
cp /media/cdrom/vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz .
tar zxpf vmware-freebsd-tools.tar.gz 
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

Use all defaults but Guest memory manager fails. Not sure what that does, but it works. Unmount the CD from VMWare if umount /media/cdrom doesn’t work.