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Lab platform

Required Hardware

The core lab can run on a single PC, a dual core 64bit CPU and a minimum of 8GB RAM is required, along with

around 100GB of free disk space. This is the minimum, more RAM and a newer CPU will help a lot especially if

you need to keep the lab running and use the PC for other things. An i7 CPU, 16GB of RAM and an SSD

(120GB+) will all make the lab host machine more responsive and reduce the amount of waiting during labs.

To make the labs as available as possible we have designed a configuration that will work with a less capable

host. The lab was developed on a laptop purchased in 2009 and upgraded to 8GB of RAM, a large SSD and a

second hard disk. Running the lab VMs off the SSD makes a big difference to the usability of the lab; it has also

prevented me wanting to replace my old laptop.

As the AutoLab has grown there are parts that extend beyond vSphere, these components will require more

RAM or for one of the ESXi hosts to be shut down to make RAM available. Running the labs under ESXi does

allow more efficient use of RAM, but requires a second PC to manage from. As another option you may

choose to allow VMware Workstation to swap some VM RAM, for me this makes performance intolerable but

others have had good results

Lab Virtualization Platform

All of the elements of the lab were developed in virtual machines under VMware Workstation v8, this version

of workstation fully supports running ESX server in a virtual machine on suitable hardware. The labs can also

be run under VMware Player as well as VMware Fusion and even VMware ESXi 5.0, this document is based on

deployment on VMware Workstation or ESXi.

Additional software

In addition to the AutoLab kit, lab host and its virtualization software you will need a few other pieces of

software, below is a list with download links where these are freely available. For the older vSphere versions

and for PowerCLI you will need an account with VMware or a good contact at VMware or a VMware partner.

The version 4.1 components are only required if you plan to build a 4.1 environment, usually so you can run

the upgrade to 5.0.

 vCenter 5.0 Install DVD

 ESXi 5.0 Install CDROM

 VMware PowerCLI installer

 VMware vSphere CLI Installer

 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 180 day trial DVD

 Microsoft Windows 2003 Server 32bit CDROM

 vCenter 4.1 Install DVD

 ESXi 4.1 Install CDROM

 ESX 4.1 Install CDROM

 View 5.0 or 5.1

 vCloud and vShield installers

 Veeam ONE and Veeam Backup & Replication installers

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