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Build Your Very Own VMware Hands-On-Labs! (with vRA and NSX)

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Let’s get one thing straight: the authors of this article are HUGE fans of the VMware Hands-On-Labs (HOL). We think it’s unbelievably cool that at a moment’s notice you can spin up the newest version of vSphere, dive head-first into the vRealize Suite, or practice the latest integrations with Palo Alto Networks and Infoblox. Having essentially instant-access to cutting-edge labs is amazingly helpful.

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Building a Nested ESXi Lab For Your Company

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Building a Nested ESXi Lab For Your Company

Let’s face it, most companies don’t have Labs for you to learn new software and operating systems, let alone test upgrades and changes to your existing environments.

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Building a vSphere 6.5 Home Lab

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Building a vSphere 6.5 Home Lab

So you decided to build your own home lab. Now what? Building a VMware home lab is one of the best ways to learn about VMware – check out this guide.

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Step by Step Configuration Guide for Using Openfiler as Shared Storage in ESXi and vSphere Environment

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As part of setting up Home Lab for virtual environment, we read about installation of Openfiler appliance in the previous article “Installation Guide – Openfiler as Shared Storage for Virtual Environment Lab”. Let’s move on to the configuration part and see how we can manage this appliance for accessing shared storage ESXi Hosts.

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Nested ESXi Enhancements in vSphere 6.5 – Virtually Ghetto Blog

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As many of you have probably heard by now, vSphere 6.5 was just announced at VMworld Barcelona this week and it is packed with a ton of new features and capabilities which you can read more about h…Read More

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Two vCPU NSX controller for lab environment

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Two vCPU NSX controller for lab environment

When installing NSX in a environment, you will at some point need to deploy NSX controllers. By default these controllers are equiped with four vCPU’s, which is fine for a production environment. Butif you want to play around withNSX in a lab environment like I wanted to, then you might not have the hardware (in my case 1 CPU, 2 cores) to support those four vCPU’s. In this article I will describe how I managed to deploy a two vCPU NSX controller for lab environment. Before we start I need to…Read More

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