VMware vSphere ‘Whitebox’ Server Lab Setup – Part 3
Posted on 04.Jan 2011 by Ray Heffer in ESXi, Home Lab, Tech Tips, Virtualisation, VMwareThe third part of this series continues with the vSphere build on my whitebox server, the Asus Rampage II Extreme with Intel Core i7 2.8Ghz and a 120GB SSD. Following on from the video in part 2 where we installed ESXi on to the USB drive, we are now ready to access the physical ESXi host and start creating some virtual machines. Since this is a home vSphere lab environment, accessing the lab from anywhere (not just at home) is a major advantage for me, so I’ll be taking you through the steps to create a Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine with an RD Gateway (Remote Desktop Gateway). We will also need shared storage in order to use vMotion, so I will also guide you through the setup of an OpenFiler iSCSI virtual SAN.
VIDEO: VMware vSphere ‘Whitebox’ Server Lab Setup – Part 2
Posted on 10.Dec 2010 by Ray Heffer in Home Lab, Tech Tips, Virtualisation, VMwareFollowing on from part 1 of my VMware vSphere ‘whitebox’ sever series, this video provides an overview of the build, and installation and configuration of ESXi.
VMware vSphere ‘Whitebox’ Server Lab Setup – Part 1
Posted on 07.Dec 2010 by Ray Heffer in Business & IT, Home Lab, Tech Tips, Virtualisation, VMwareIntroduction
Way back when VMware VI3 was released in 2006 (doesn’t time fly!), I built a home-brew lab server for ESX 3.0 and used it partly to study for my VCP exam. That particular machine is now my home theatre PC (HTPC) as it wouldn’t stand a chance of running VMware vSphere, so here is my mission to build a whitebox VMware vSphere lab server. I must also give credit to Simon Seagrave and Simon Gallagher their vSphere lab server articles which have inspired me to do something about it and build a vSphere lab at home. Simon has lots of great articles on building a vSphere lab, and I urge you to visit his site.
