Install and Configure ESXi Hosts for the Compute Workload Domain

Procedure

1. Install ESXi hosts on the SD flash media.
   Note:

   • Do not configure RAID on the physical hosts.

   • Logs are stored on non-persistent storage. Refer to the corresponding product documentation to configure a syslog server or a scratch partition. Later, change syslog to point to Aria Operations for Logs.

2. Specify the network parameters for the host. Use static IP or DHCP addresses and ensure that the VLAN ID is set for the management network.
3. Specify a root password for the ESXi host.
   Note:

   For detailed installation steps, see the VMware vSphere documentation.

4. Configure the ESXi hosts:
   1. Verify that the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the ESXi host is resolvable.
   2. Configure the appropriate VLAN ID for the VMkernel port group.
   3. Verify that all ESXi hosts can ping each other.