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How to take advantage of the old IBM X3650m2 installation esxi5.1 to provide cloud desktop, I believe that many inexperienced people do not know what to do, so this article summarizes the causes of the problem and solutions, through this article I hope you can solve this problem.

The company has an old server, the original IBM X3650m2 server, 2 physical CPU,24G memory, 8 300G hard drives. It turns out that there is a win10 installed directly above, but after thinking about it, the resources can still be used. After all, a few virtual machines can be virtualized in 24G memory, or at least the resources to do small experiments on their own are possible. The main reason is that I take my laptop to work every day. I want to buy a thin client to solve the problem of office computer directly using cloud desktop. I keep bragging that we are engaged in IT and cloud computing, and we haven't even used cloud desktop yet, so I can't explain it.

IBM X3650m2 server this server is very old, just want to install Proxmox, the operating system is debian, but after burning the installation of USB disk, found that the physical machine boot did not recognize, checked the official website information found that X3650M2 only supports rhel5, and suse, so can not install proxmox. After considering whether openstack can be installed or not, compared with the operating system version supported by the hardware, the openstack installation image I encapsulated uses centos7, and the hardware does not support it. No way, continue to check online information, the only way out is to use vmware, and can only install the version before vsphere 5.5. finally, to be on the safe side, I chose the vsphere5.1 version.

In order to maximize the disk capacity of the IBM X3650m2 server, I deleted the original raid and delimited all the disks into a raid0 disk group, so that IO has the highest read and write performance, but also the highest risk of data corruption. As long as one hard disk is broken, all the data will die. Therefore, the backup of the data in the later use process needs to be fully considered. I intend to use win10's onedrive to back up important documents in real time, but nothing else is important.

First of all, look for the installation package related to vmware5.1. I forgot to write down the URL I downloaded at that time. I can find it directly on the Internet. After I downloaded it, I have saved it to my own Baidu disk. It mainly includes the following files:

VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64 (ESXI). Iso-this file is burned into a flash drive and plugged directly into the physical machine to install ESXI5.1

VMware-viclient-all-5.1.0-786111-this file is installed on the client after ESXI is installed on the physical server so that you can log in to esxi for management.

Note that when installing vmware client, you need to pay attention to the following two points:

A. You will encounter an installation error about visual # J. According to the error prompt, download a visual # J installer vjredist.exe, NetFx20SP2_x86.exe, Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 redistributable package (x64) (click on me to download), and install it. Refer to this URL:

Http://blog.itpub.net/19602/viewspace-1337448/

B. The firewall needs to be turned off because the installation process modifies the registry and the firewall will block

C, win7 system installation VMware-viclient software error code 1935 window, 1935 error, at this time, do not click the prompt box "OK", otherwise start rollback, automatically clear the installed program; then forced shutdown, restart

Vcenter is not downloaded because there is only one physical server and limited resources, so just use the client login esxi to create a virtual machine. One problem with this is that virtual machines cannot be cloned and vmware view cannot be installed to centrally manage virtual desktops.

Next, look for the activated key, and finally find a registration machine, the download address of the vSphere 5.x registrant:

Http://down.51cto.com/data/519074

After registering the machine to produce the secret key, the activation method is as follows (Note: it is only for your own experimental use, please do not use it for commercial use, if it involves infringement, I am not responsible for it):

The following is to follow the esxi and create a virtual machine, the detailed process will not be written, a lot of online.

Note that the windows version supported by vmware5.1 supports win8 and win2012 server, but not win10, and I am used to using win10. What should I do? The only way to do this is to install win7 64-bit first and then upgrade to win10.

1. Install win7. Download the win7 iso image, upload it to the data storage directory of vmware, generate the virtual machine in vmware client and mount the iso image, start the virtual machine and start the installation. In a small episode, the iso image downloaded for the first time is the ghost image. It is found that the installation cannot be booted at all, so you need to pay attention to it.

2. Activate win7. Find the KMS activation tool on the Internet, activate the win7, do not describe the specific process, and directly find "pony activation" online. I activated it myself using a KMS10.k.sn.2 file I originally downloaded.

3. Upgrade win7 to win10. Download MediaCreationTool1809 from the official website and wait directly after execution. The upgrade will take about 1 to 2 hours.

4. Install related common software. Download Security Guard first and install daily software such as wps, foxmail, chrome, Thunderbolt, qq, Wechat and so on.

5. Enable onedrive. The original plan is to achieve the security of documents through onedrive. After it is enabled, the working directory on the old computer is copied and synchronized to onedrive. It is found that more than 5G and more than 5G need to be paid, so it is very inconvenient to synchronize the latest file updates later.

6, synchronize foxmail mailbox, foxmail7.2 from the old computer directly copy the entire directory can be directly used, all the original settings are as old, very convenient.

The next step is the use and management of commuter virtual machines. Because in order to save power, the server needs to be turned off after work and rebooted the next day. However, the virtual machine will not start automatically after power on, so it is necessary to set up the virtual machine to start along with the server. The setting method is as follows:

Note that to select the virtual machine that starts with the system, move up to any order, and finally the virtual machine displays "started" to indicate that the setting is successful.

After the virtual machine is generated, the thin client connects next. Online bought a Jieyun J50 thin client, 600 yuan, plus freight 23 yuan, a Logitech keyboard + mouse 78 yuan, home freight 10 yuan, a total of 711 dollars, the display is good for the old unit. Don't say much nonsense, the picture above:

Next, set up the connection of the thin client. Read the manual and say nothing more, as shown in the figure:

It should be noted that the last configuration VMware View in the above figure cannot be used in my environment. I set it up casually and cannot be used. I am using the above two configurations here, using RDP connections.

In order to be able to manage VMWARE's ESXI server in the virtual machine, VMWARE client is also installed on the virtual machine, so that the ESXI server can be turned off directly on the virtual machine after work.

Finally, to sum up, the whole usage scenario looks like this:

1. When I get to work, I first turn on the power of the server. Because I set up the virtual machine to start at random, my virtual machine will start automatically.

2. Sit on your thin client seat and turn on the thin client and monitor power, choose your own virtual machine connection, and automatically log in to windows to start using.

3. During use, if you need to leave the seat in the middle, windows starts-> Power supply-> Lock; if you want to exit windows, lock the power supply on the screen-> disconnect, and return to the management interface of the thin client.

4. Enable the onedrive of win10, and use the onedrive directory as the working directory, so that any work at work can also log in to onedrive on the home computer to synchronize the working directory to the home, realizing the so-called "cloud office".

5. There are two options for shutdown before leaving work, one is to delay shutting down the physical machine-> to shut down the virtual machine, and the other is to shut down the physical machine directly (the virtual machine is suspended when the physical machine is set). The first shutdown mode is relatively clean; the second shutdown method can make use of the virtual machine suspension function to retain the state of the virtual machine, and when you go to work the next day, you can continue all the desktop open programs of the previous day, which is very convenient for continuous office work.

1) set esxi delayed shutdown. Start ssh login security settings as shown below:

Log in to esxi with ssh and set delayed shutdown before shutting down the virtual machine:

Sleep 120 & / bin/poweroff &

In this way, you can shut down the virtual machine first, and then the system automatically shuts down the physical machine after 120 seconds.

2) shut down the physical machine directly when you get off work (set the virtual machine to hang when the esxi physical machine is closed).

Open VMWARE client and shut down the server directly, as shown in the following figure.

Setting the physical shutdown is the setting method of virtual machine suspension:

After reading the above, have you learned how to take advantage of the old IBM X3650m2 installation esxi5.1 to provide cloud desktops? If you want to learn more skills or want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel, thank you for reading!

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