Plain Virtualization

Attached with this post is a sample BOM and high level architecture details on how you can setup a vCloud lab with 4 hosts (16GB of RAM, 1TB of storage and 2 CPU - Quad core). The lab will be useful for System Integrators (or individuals with the monetary resources) to build a lab that can be used for the following: 1. Sales can use it to demonstrate VMware solutions. 2. Pre-sales can use for demonstration or learning the capabilities of vCloud. 3. Post-Sales can use the setup for design validation/testing. Caution/Disclaimer: 1. This is a lab and the setup is not a reference design for a vCloud deployment or for production use. 2. The lab architecture described here is also not setup based on best practices but for individuals to be able to install and get familiar with VMware solutions using spare or old hardware. Link to Document: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6ewbl4byY17bVBFRktMbXBKc2M

Here is a list of the item for my Home Lab Intel Core2Quad 9550 4 x 4GB DDR2 800MHz Kingston ValueRam Asus P5Q-E Motherboard 2 x Western Digital Sata2 500GB Harddisk CoolerMaster GX-550W PSU XFXForce Graphic card (this was board to play game when I was using windows back then) Thermaltake Casing 1 x 2GB thumbdrive (Got free on a VMware event) ESXi 4.0 was installed on the machine. Did tried using 4.1 but there was an issue booting up after installation not sure why. After which upgrade was done via CLI to 4.1. After which everything run smooth.

Here is a diagram of my home lab which I have done up. All machines are VMs other than the main ESX server is a physical. I will put up my specification used for my ESXi server at home in another post. This took me a few months as I was busy with work, exams and lots of other testing to have this working. I must admit I do not have a good network backup ground which was also one of the big reason I have a problem with Vyatta router setup. I have 3 LUNs on my ESXi server namely a 1 x 160GB, 2x 500GB. All 3 are sata hdd. Here we will not go through the setup for the vSphere environment which I believe if you are reading this you would know how to do it. We will start with View 4.6 setup straight away. A few guides that got me to successfully implement my View environment are as below: a step by step installation was helpful http://paulslager.com Kendrick provide me the idea how the event database is configured. http://kendrickcoleman.com/index.php?/Tech-Blog/configurin...