This post is 2nd part of Arch Linux installation guide and as you may read the first part, you know that we want to do it by Arch Anywhere and now, if you have downloaded ISO from Arch Anywhere website, mount it and follow the below steps. I’ll install Arch Linux on a virtual machine, you can do it on virtual machine or physical machine.
Arch Linux is one of most popular Linux distributions and one of most updated Linux distributions. Arch Linux has no graphical or automatic installer for installation and installing Arch Linux is not simple for most new users. During installation, you have to do initialize disk, create partitions, configure boot-loader and other configurations manually. So you need to know enough about Linux. If you know, what are you doing, it would be wonderful experience but if not, it will be dark dream! Now, what’s solution to gain experience of working with most updated Linux for beginner users? Answer, you can use Arch Anywhere to install Arch Linux. What’s Arch Anywhere? Arch Anywhere contains a script to give you ability to install Arch Linux with very customization and of course, all things will be automated.
How to remove ISO file that imported by OVA/OVF file? The file is stored as _deviceImage-0.iso in datastore and you can remove it by PowerCLI.
Veeam Backup & Replication is one of the best backup and replication software that you can use them in your virtual environment. Veeam BR be able to IP customization during disaster-recovery and you can have your virtual machines in a DR site with different IP plan. But Veeam BR just support Windows VMs for IP customization or “Re-IP Rule”. So what can we do about Linux virtual machines and others?
