How to create a vapp in esxi or vsphere

How to create a vapp
 i f you are running vsphere do this connected to the vsphere server rather than the esxi host


Right click your cluster and edit settings.
You see how new vapp is grey?



Turn on DRS. It must be on for vapp to work















Right click cluster again.
Now make new vapp





 Name your vapp













Give it appropriate shares













Finish









You will see the Vapp under your cluster.
Now just DRAG and DROP vms into your vapp
You will see the vms nested after you drag them in.









In the summary tab of your vapp edit the settings











You can leave the resources as default if you don’t need to change them











Click startup order
This is where you can edit the start up order.
If it’s a windows or linux box you can enable VMWARE TOOLS ARE READY so that the next machine only starts when the machinve in the group above it is totally up.
You can just use the time elapsed  for delays..


 so here
Esx_esx2 waits 120 after esx_esx1 start before starting









Now you can power on the vapp instead of the machines.