How To Install Vcsa 6.7 On Esxi

What

Install VMware VCSA half-dozen.7 with less than 10GB RAM

If you are building a home lab (with VMware Workstation), more often than not you'll be struggling with the resource of your concrete PC, in general with the corporeality of memory. New versions of vSphere require at least 10GB RAM for "Tiny" VCSA deployments. This also ways that the (virtual) server hosting VCSA should accept even more RAM, over 10GB, to reserve some for the hypervisor.

If you don't have these minimum requirements, you'll become a warning message as below.

not enough memory on host for the selected size

For a VMware Workstation lab, y'all'll just create a few VMs to exam and play around with, yet this minimum amount of RAM required seems to exist too high, and probably you'll demand extra memory for other services and applications.

For my environment, I want to change the minimum hardware requirements from 10GB to 6GB, of a tiny deployment.

How

Notation: The resources required for the unlike VCSA deployments are the recommendations by VMware. These recommendations guarantee that your vSphere surround will work in full harmony with all VMware products. DO NOT change these parameters in a production surroundings.

From the VMware VCSA installation folder, become to Vcsa-ui-installer \ win32 \ resource \ app \ resource.
Open the file named layout.json with Notepad. You might want to create a copy of this file commencement.
Inside the layout.json file, coil down to "tiny". There are several options so brand sure you lot select the one with the label: "Tiny vCenter Server with Embedded PSC", which is based on Deployment size, Tiny, Storage size, default (300GB), and with Embedded PSC.

Install VMware VCSA 6.7 with less than 10GB RAM

Alter "retention" to the desired value. 6GB (6144MB) in my case. Save the changes.
Adjacent time you run VCSA installation yous'll encounter that the Tiny deployment has been downwards-seized to 6GB (or your value)

Now you tin can go on with the deployment of your VCSA.

Notation: This change won't be reflected on the Virtual Hardware when the VCSA (VM) is created, it can't be inverse and you still see 10GB. Merely from the Resource Monitor, y'all'll meet that 6GB is used as a limit.

Juan Mulford

I have been agile in IT for over fourteen years now. I am a solutions builder, working with storage, virtualization, and VDI solutions. For the past x years, I have been living and working in Taiwan.