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Now enter "myGuestImage" as the name for the Disk Image. Enter the size of the Disk Image for your Guest (40 GB should be enough for any simple OS installation, but check your OS installation requirements), an click "Finish" to create the image in the selected Volume.
Select the newly created image "myGuestDiskImage", and click "Next".
Direct Storage allows Guests to directly access physical disks attached to the Hosts. We won't use them in this simple installation, and we have not defined a Direct Storage, so there is nothing selectable here. Just click "Next".
Select "myMediaStorage" in the drop down list in the upper right corner. You will see a list of with the ISO files contained in the selected Media Storage. Select the image file of the OS that you want to install. The selected image file will appear in the list in the bottom of the window. This is the virtual equivalent of putting a DVD in a physical machine. Remember to remove the disk from the drive after installation, as you would normally do. Click "Next".
Now you are presented with a summary of the configuration of the Guest you are about to create. Review it, and if everything is right, click "Finish".
You have created your first Guest with flexVMClient flexVDI Dashboard. The red circle with a white square in the icon, indicates shows that it is stopped. In the next step we will start it.
Assign the Guest to a Pool
A pool is defined as a set of (one or more) Hosts that have access to common disk storage, so they can indistinctly run the Guests within that storage.
The Hosts provide the Guests with the hardware CPUs and memory they need to run on. We must assign our Guest to a Pool so that it can run on the Hosts of the Pool.
In our example, we will assign our guest to the only Pool in our installation; it is called "default", and is created by flexConfig on install. Expand "Pools", so you can see the Pool called "default".
Now right look for "myGuest"; it is not assigned to any Pool yet, so it appears under "Unassigned Guests". Right click on "myGuest".
In the pop over menu that appears, you will see "Start" option is disabled; a Guest can not be started until it is assigned to a Pool.
Click on "Assign Pool". A new window will open.
Select the "default" Pool, and click "Finish". Now the Guest machine has all the resources needed to start.
Starting the guest
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Starting the guest
Simply right click on the Guest and click on "Start once". We created it in Pool myPool, so it is shown there in the Data Center tree) and click . You could also have clicked on "Start". . When doing so, if for some reason the virtual machine is stopped, flexVDI will start it again. This option is specially useful for server type machines.
You have just asked flexManager flexVDI Manager to start a Virtual Machine Guest. This operation takes several seconds to complete, but you didn't have to wait that time to go on managing your infrastructure. flexVMClient flexVDI Dashboard does not make you wait until the operations you request complete; instead, you can immediately continue using the program because all communication between flexClient and flexManager between flexVDI Dashboard and flexVDI Manager is asynchronous. As a result, sometimes the information you see on your screen is not completely up to date, as it can take some seconds to be refreshed. If you want to see the latest up to date state of your systems you can click on the "Refresh" button (the green arrow in the right top corner of the Data Center tree) to refresh all the information about your infrastructure.
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Now you will want to access the console of your new Guest. When a Guest is started, the "Open Console" option is enabled in its context menu. You can click on it, and a new window will open.
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Congratulations! You have succesfully successfully created your Guest, and you have opened its system console. You can proceed with Operating system System installation now.
flexVDI offers flexVDI Guest Tools. This software significantly improves the user experience providing features and improved performance. When you complete the installation of the O.S, with your machine still running, you can right click on the Guest in flexVDI Dashboard, and then click on the "Insert Tools". This will insert a virtual optical disk in the machine that will start the installation of the software. Alternatively, you can download the latest version of the software from http://depot.flexvdi.com/guest-tools/