Putting together a poor man's lab with older equipment, open source, and evaluation software to demonstrate some tasks related to Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, RedHat, VMware, Storage, etc... Components so far: 2 Older Dell servers 32 bit with ESX 3i update 4 2 Newer Dell servers 64 bit with ESXi 4.1 A JBOD with about 1TB of 10K SCSI disks attached to 1 of the ESX hosts A newer 64 bit workstation/laptop acting as the Windows 7 management station An Ubuntu box serving up an NFS datastore to one of the ESX 3i hosts HP LeftHand Networks VSA evaluation Celerra Sim (Uber) Netapp Sim Remote Access to Lab provided by OpenVPN Virtual Machine running on one of the ESX hosts Could also run lab on a laptop or workstation with VMware Workstation and CPU supporting Intel-VT or AMD-V (check BIOS to ensure available and enabled) Mimimum configuration for ESX on Workstation:
The vmx file must also be configured with: monitor_control.restrict_backdoor="true" |