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Lab Outer 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 make the lab host

machine more responsive and reduce the amount of waiting during labs. As all the VMs are

thin provisioned they will grow over time, if every VM grows to its maximum size then they

would occupy nearly 400GB of disk space!

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

with a less capable host. The core 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 also delayed the replacement of my

old laptop until the screen gave out.

As the AutoLab has grown there are parts that extend beyond vSphere; these components will

require more RAM. In some cases you can shut down one of the nested ESXi hosts make

RAM available. Running the labs under ESXi rather than Workstation does allow more

efficient use of RAM, but requires a second PC for ESXi management. Another option you

may choose to allow VMware Workstation to swap some VM RAM; for me this makes

performance intolerable but others have had success.

Lab Virtualization Platform

All of the elements of the lab were developed in virtual machines under VMware

Workstation. Workstation fully supports running ESXi server in a virtual machine on suitable

physical hardware. The labs can also be run under VMware Player, VMware Fusion, and

VMware ESXi 5. Once the outer lab platform is setup the build process is the same on all

platforms.

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 and PowerCLI versions 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 or 5.1.

Core Lab components

vCenter and ESXi installers for the versions you want to use; 4.1, 5.0 and 5.1 are

supported.

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