Install GigaVUE‑FM using ISO Image File on VMware vCenter

You can install GigaVUE-FM on VMware vCenter using the ISO image file. Follow the steps given below to install GigaVUE-FM using ISO image on vCenter:

  1. Log in to the VMware vCenter web interface.
  2. In the vSphere Client, select an inventory object that is a valid parent object of a virtual machine such as data center, cluster, or ESXi host.
  3. Right-click the ESXi Host, Cluster, or data center on which you want to deploy GigaVUE‑FM6.8, and then and select Files in the top navigation bar. Then click on Upload Files and then upload the ISO image file.
  4. Click on the Actions button on the top and select New Virtual Machine. The New Virtual Machine wizard opens.
  5. In the Select a creation type tab, select Create a new virtual machine. Then, click Next.
  6. In the Select a name and folder tab, specify a unique name for the GigaVUE‑FM instance, and then select a location and host to which you want to deploy the GigaVUE‑FM instance.
  7. Click Next. The Select a compute resource page of the New Virtual Machine wizard appears.
  8. Select a destination compute host for the virtual machine deployment. The New Virtual Machine wizard performs a validation to ensure that the selected host has all the resources required for the GigaVUE‑FM deployment.  
  9. Click Next. The Select storage page of the New Virtual Machine wizard appears. Select the datastore where the virtual machine’s files will be stored. Then, Click Next.
  10. The Select compatibility page of the New Virtual Machine wizard appears. Select compatibility for this virtual machine depending on the ESXi hosts used in your environment. Then, Click Next.
  11. The Select a guest OS page of the New Virtual Machine wizard appears.
    1. Select the Guest OS family as Linux.
    2. Select the Guest OS version as Rocky Linux 8.8 (64-bit).
    3. Then, click Next.

      4. Note:  GuestOS version is displayed as RockyLinux only if the vSphere version is either 6.7 U3p or 7.0 U3c. For other versions of vSphere, CentOS 4/5 is only displayed. Use the drop-down to select RockyLinux.

  12. The Customize hardware page of the New Virtual Machine wizard appears, enter the CPU, Memory and Hard disk details. Refer to Minimum Requirements for more detailed information on the minimum requirements required to install GigaVUE-FM.
    1. Go to Add New Device > Hard disk to more than one hard disk. Add a secondary hard disk with at least 40GB memory. In the Disk Provisioning, select Thick Provision or Thin Provision.
    2. Select a Network Adapter.
    3. In the CD/DVD Drive, select Datastore ISO file and the CD/DVD Media select the ISO image uploaded in Step 3.
    4. Click Next.
  13. The Ready to Complete page of the New Virtual Machine wizard appears.
  14. Verify that all of the settings are correct, and then click Finish. The Recent Tasks pane of the vSphere Client Home page shows the progress of the deployment operation.
  15. When the operation is complete, you have successfully deployed a GigaVUE‑FM instance.

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