Hi, so this is my first look at VMware ... Ive had Fusion for sometime but now have ESXi on a server in my office lab. I've used Xenserver and Xng but they just arent my flavor. So I setup ESXi and it alll seems fine but of the 17 vms Ive made I think all of them have some weird issue here and there and its only the VMWare platform thats different from my pervious uses of the servers so I have to figure out what I've got wrong here.
Ubuntu Install Fails - I have tried like 3 or 4 vms now ... where I have uploaded Ubuntu to the Datastore and I select its iso for the cd drive....it starts and loads and I enter all the info needed and tell it to go .... then the install fails. Every time.
Centos 7 - fails to resolve domains consistently. yum -y update is unable to run because of an unknown repository error. Which repository? Its unknown. So I cant really disable it. I then cant install any additional stuff....such as webmin or virtualmin. The repository error comes up.
I was able to upload an OVA image of a previous vm I had made on Xen server to VMWare that has Centos 7 already on it. I was able to load it and it functions mostly fine.
Centos 8 - Unable to installl it from the iso ... I create a vm and select centos 8 iso ... it loads to the GUI configuration but it says the install source is unavailable. Im using the "boot" version iso so its network reliant.
I believe all of these issues are network related to the VMware servers network. Its the default network that came when I created the server. I have 64 ips and I assugn them myself without DHCP .... I can access the server remotely without issue. I can access the individual vms remotely via ip address. I can ping. But they all seem to get lost on the way out. I configured the individual vms to use 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as DNS.
I have the server configured with the Gateway ip address correct and I beleive thats the DNS ip address on the server as well.
Any thoughts?
