Archives for posts with tag: labs

VMware Virtual Customer Labs

February 4, 12 //
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I´ve men­tioned this ear­lier, VMware hands-in labs going pub­lic in 2012, but finally it seems like some­thing is hap­pen­ing in that regard!

Scott Sauer has announced the avail­abil­ity of “VMware Vir­tual Cus­tomer Labs” (vCL) where he walks us through the setup and deliv­ery of the new vCL offering.

At the moment it´s only avail­able to “selected cus­tomers”, sup­ported by a VMware pre-sales engi­neer, and the num­ber of labs are lim­ited. It´s still a work in progress, and I´m sure great things will come out of this!

Now, how do I get access to it as a part­ner? Also, I won­der what pos­si­bil­i­ties that lies in this with regards to alter­na­tive VCP require­ments?

VMworld Hands-on Labs going public in 2012

August 30, 11 //
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VMware Labs now has fixed data cen­ters which means that the VMworld Hands-On labs are going to be pub­licly avail­able in early 20112!

Hear Mor­nay Van Der Walt, Senior Direc­tor R&D at VMware, explain the details in this video from VMworld TV:

This is great news, and I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks this is a really good idea.

VMware vSphere Lab: Virtual Edition – Part 6

October 21, 10 //
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This is the sixth post in a series out­lin­ing how to set up your own lit­tle vir­tu­al­ized Vir­tual vSphere Lab, if you missed part one, part two, part three, part four, or part five be sure to check them out first!

Now that we have work­ing DHCP and DNS ser­vices in our lab net­work, we’re ready to get out two lit­tle ESXi friends con­nected to it’s man­age­ment ser­vice, VMware vCen­ter Server.

To be able to do that, we obvi­ously need to install vCen­ter Server. Here it goes!

Installing VMware vCen­ter Server

Installing VMware vCen­ter Server is a pretty straight for­ward task.
First off, con­nect the VMware-VIMSetup-all-4.1.0–259021.iso file to the srv-vc1 server.
Con­tinue read­ing “VMware vSphere Lab: Vir­tual Edi­tion – Part 6” »

VMware vSphere Lab: Virtual Edition – Part 5

October 20, 10 //
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This is the fifth post in a series out­lin­ing how to set up your own lit­tle vir­tu­al­ized Vir­tual vSphere Lab, if you missed part one, part two, part three, or part four, be sure to check them out first!

Ide­ally we would now install Microsoft Active Direc­tory Domain Ser­vices (AD DS) on the Win­dows Server 2008 R2 VM we cre­ated in part four, but since VMware vCen­ter Server 4.1 also installs AD LDS (pre­vi­ously known as Active Direc­tory Appli­ca­tion Mode (ADAM)) it can not be installed on a AD Domain Controller.

This means that we either need to install a sec­ond VM with Win­dows Server 2008 R2 on, and install and con­fig­ure Active Direc­tory Domain Ser­vices (AD DS) on it, or run with­out an avail­able Active Direc­tory domain. Run­ning a sec­ond Win­dows Server 2008 R2 install will con­sume a lot of resources, espe­cially mem­ory, which might not be avail­able to you in your lab envi­ron­ment. For now, I’ve decided to go on with­out it.
Con­tinue read­ing “VMware vSphere Lab: Vir­tual Edi­tion – Part 5” »

VMware vSphere Lab: Virtual Edition – Part 4

October 19, 10 //
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This is the fourth post in a series out­lin­ing how to set up your own lit­tle vir­tu­al­ized Vir­tual vSphere Lab, if you missed part one, part two, or part three be sure to check them out first!

In part 4 we’ll be installing a Win­dows Server 2008 R2 VM, to use as the basis for the VMware vCen­ter Server installation.

First off, cre­ate a new VM in VMware Work­sta­tion. This works exactly the same way as we did it in part 3, but I’ll repeat the steps here as well.
Con­tinue read­ing “VMware vSphere Lab: Vir­tual Edi­tion – Part 4” »

VMware vSphere Lab: Virtual Edition – Part 3

October 18, 10 //
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This is the third post in a series out­lin­ing how to set up your own lit­tle vir­tu­al­ized Vir­tual vSphere Lab, if you missed part one or part two, be sure to check them out first!

I’m going to assume that you already have VMware Work­sta­tion 7.x installed and ready. If not, get it installed before continuing.

Now that we have all the pre­req­ui­sites in place, we’re going to go straight to installing the first ESXi host for your lab.
Con­tinue read­ing “VMware vSphere Lab: Vir­tual Edi­tion – Part 3” »

VMware vSphere Lab: Virtual Edition — Part 2

October 18, 10 //
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This is the sec­ond post in a series out­lin­ing how to set up your own lit­tle vir­tu­al­ized Vir­tual vSphere Lab, if you missed the first one be sure to check it out!

The first step in set­ting up the The Vir­tual vSphere Lab, is mak­ing sure you have every­thing you need. To get every­thing up and run­ning, you’ll need the following:

Con­tinue read­ing “VMware vSphere Lab: Vir­tual Edi­tion — Part 2” »

VMware vSphere Lab: Virtual Edition — Part 1

October 17, 10 //
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Even if VMware vSphere has pretty strin­gent hard­ware require­ments, there are some rather cheap options avail­able if you want to set up your own vSphere Lab for train­ing or test­ing purposes.

In this first post of the series, I’ll exam­ine the option of set­ting up a Vir­tual vSphere Lab, based on VMware Work­sta­tion 7.1:

The Vir­tual vSphere Lab

In VMware Work­sta­tion 7.1, run­ning vSphere 4.1 is sup­ported as a guest oper­at­ing sys­tem. This means that you can run your whole test envi­ron­ment as vir­tual instances on your lap­top or desk­top com­puter, not wor­ry­ing about the vSphere HCL at all.
Con­tinue read­ing “VMware vSphere Lab: Vir­tual Edi­tion — Part 1” »