Install Rpm On Vmware Esxi 5

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if you came across this post then you’ll probably had the problem that the vCenter installation became stuck around the 80%, with the text “Installing RPM This may take several minutes…”.

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Unfortunately, this doesn’t take minutes but several hours until it figures out that it got an issue and it just stops. Like this screen:

After that, you won’t get a prompt to enroll the PSC, and if you open the console of the vm, you’ll see the following as well.

What this means is that you just got unlucky and that you most probably downloaded a bad ISO build. There are ways to fix this (you can patch the deployment), but honestly, it is much better to just download a different ISO build that doesn’t contain this issue and do the installation again. This way, you’re sure there are no weird or bad configuration issues that will stay behind, and you’re most probably also much quicker in finishing the deployment (on a normal way). VMware has covered this also in the following kb. https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/51124?docid=57387

According to the documentation, the root password had a 365day expiration date, but it keeps the build date as his point of time reference, not the initial time of the deployment. In the kb you can find the builds that are being affected with this issue. The build that I had that showed this issue was 6816762. Check the KB, so that you are sure you don’t have one of the problematic builds.

Ah well, at least you know now that it isn’t your fault, and that you can stop rechecking all your settings over and over again. Just like I did 😑😉.

P.S.

NOTE: After installation of the ESXi Driver Rollup ISO, VMware strongly recommends applying the ESXi 5.5.0 patches related to Heartbleed, a serious vulnerability in OpenSSL version 1.0.1a-f. See KB2076121 and KB2076589 for details. NOTE: This image should not be used for ESXi upgrades. ESXi 5.5.0 Driver Rollup Release Notes. Installing ESXi Using vSphere Auto Deploy vSphere Auto Deploy lets you provision hundreds of physical hosts with ESXi software. Troubleshooting vSphere Auto Deploy The vSphere Auto Deploy troubleshooting topics offer solutions for situations when provisioning hosts with vSphere Auto Deploy does not work as expected. VMware ESXi Installation and Setup describes how to install and configure VMware ESXi™. At VMware, we value inclusion. To foster this principle within our customer, partner, and internal community, we have updated this guide to remove instances of non-inclusive language. Intended Audience VMware ESXi Installation and Setup is intended for. But starting with vSphere 6.5, VMware Tools introduce some enhancements that improve the manageability experience: Signed ISO images – VMware Tools are distributed as ISO images to be mounted to individual virtual machines to install or upgrade. To increase the security, in ESXi 6.5 the ISO images are cryptographically verified each time they.

If you get this error:

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Or This Error:

Then it means that you don’t have properly set up your DNS, or that it cannot reach it.

In my case, I configured the wrong DNS server during installation, and apparently that doesn’t work 😅. Only way to solve this, is to redeploy your appliance with the right IP settings. Other then that, if you forgot to create a DNS record before deployment, then you probably can still restore that, if the IP address of your DNS is correct, by rechecking the DNS during the Deployment of the PSC. And while we’re at it, selecting the wrong portgroup for the vm will give a similar effect.

So the sum it up, the following can ruin the deployment of your vCenter:

  • Wrong Network settings or DNS configured incorrectly
    • Wrong DNS server during deployement, no DNS record, wrong default Gateway
  • Wrong Portgroup selected or DNS is just not accessible through the selected network
  • Wrong ISO build
    • Check the kb before Deployment.

Hope this helps 😉

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Configuration of HP ILO can be done using reboot of your HP server and Press <F8> to configure the ILO settings but you need a down time to your ESXi host and all the virtual machines running on it if it is a standalone host and no option to vMotion to other host. It is really a tough task to get downtime for your virtuali machines just for your ILO configurations like Reset ILO configuration, Reconfigure ILO IP address and reset ILO administrative password.

Now ILO configuration of ESXi host can easily be done without need of host restart using HP ESXi utilities.
HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5 will be available as part of HP customized ESXi installer image but if it is not a HP customized ESXi image then you may need to download and install HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5. It downloads the HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle Zip file.This ZIp file contains 3 different utilities HPONCFG , HPBOOTCFG and HPACUCLI utilities for remote online configuration of servers.

HPONCFG can be used to set up and reconfigure the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) management controller of a server.
HPBOOTCFG can be used to set up the boot configuration for the server.
HPACUCLI can be used in the configuration of HP Smart Array controllers and attached storage

You can directly download HPONCFG and Upload the VIB file into your ESXi host and execute the below command to install the HPONCFG utility.

esxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/hponcfg-04-00.10.vib

Once it is installed. Browse towards the directory /opt/hp/tools and execute the below commands to perform the below operations. Below are the available help options for HPONCFG utility

Reset the ILO from ESXi host

Browse to /opt/hp/tools and execute the below command to reset the HP ILO configuration.

./hponcfg -r

Export the ILO configuration of your ESXi host into file

Browse to /opt/hp/tools and execute the below command to export the ILO configuration into text file.

/opt/hp/tools # ./hponcfg -w /tmp/ilo-conf.txt

Configuring IP address for HP ILO from ESXi host

Edit the exported config file /tmp/ilo-conf.txt from above step and change the following IP address variables
vi ilo-conf.txt
<SUBNET_MASK VALUE = “255.255.255.0”/>
<DNS_NAME VALUE = “ESXi5-ILO”/>
<DHCP_ENABLE VALUE = “N”/>
Commit the updated IP address configuration from the file (ilo-conf.txt) to the ILO cofig using th below command
./hponcfg -f /tmp/ilo-conf.txt
Thats it .You should be able to reach the ILO of the server using the IP address 192.168.0.55 now.

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Reset the ILO administrator password from ESXi host

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Create a file named reset_admin_pw.xml with the below info and add the new password in the password section:

<ribcl VERSION=”2.0″>
<login USER_LOGIN=”Administrator” PASSWORD=”YOUR-NEW-PASSWORD“>
<user_INFO MODE=”write”>
<mod_USER USER_LOGIN=”Administrator”>
<password value=”newpass”/>
</mod_USER>
</user_INFO>
</login>
</ribcl>

Commit the Updated administrator password information from the file (reset_admin_pw.xml) to ILO using the below command

./hponcfg -f reset_admin_pw.xml

That’s it you should be able to login to ILO of your ESXi host using the password specified in the above xml file. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!!!

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