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Dell EMC VMware Cloud Foundation for PowerEdge MX7000 Deployment Guide

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Configure ESXi settings using web interface

Prerequisites

Before configuring ESXi settings using web interface, you must configure the ESXi settings using DCUI. For more information, see Configure ESXi settings—using DCUI.

Steps

  1. Using a web browser, go to the ESXi host-level management web interface at https://<ESXi Host Address>/ui.
  2. Enter the credentials that were created during the ESXi installation, and then click Log in.
  3. In the Navigator pane, click Networking. The current port groups on the host are displayed by default. One is configured with VLAN information that is entered during installation and the other is still at zero.
  4. Right-click VM Network and then click Edit settings.
    Figure 1. ESXi web interface—Edit settings pageThis image shows the ESXi web interface—Edit settings page.
  5. In the Edit Port Group window, enter the Management VLAN ID, and then click Save.
    • CAUTION: Leaving the VLAN ID at default setting causes pre-deployment validation to fail during a later step.
  6. In the Navigator pane, click Manage to set up the NTP.
  7. In the right pane, click Time & Date.
  8. Click Edit Settings and then select Use Network Time Protocol (enable NTP client).
  9. From the NTP Service Startup Policy list, select Start and stop with host.
  10. In the NTP Servers box, enter the NTP server IP addresses.
    • NOTE: If multiple IP addresses are provided, separate the IP addresses with commas.
  11. Click Save.
    Figure 2. ESXi web interface—Edit time configuration pageThis image shows the ESXi web interface—Edit time configuration page.
  12. In the Manage pane, select Actions > NTP Service > Start. The resulting page is as shown in the following figure:
    Figure 3. ESXi settings web interface—Manage paneThis image shows the ESXi settings web interface—Manage pane.

Next steps

Repeat all the steps for each host targeted for Cloud Foundation management domain deployment. Validate that each ESXi host can access the NTP servers by establishing an SSH connection to each host and executing the ntpq -p command. A refid value of .INIT. indicates that your host is not obtaining time from your specified time source.

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