NSX Home Lab (Nested)
One Physical Host : Pro & Cons : please advise
2cpu:
90 gb Ram
SSD and SATa mix hard drives
one network card
Two Physical Host : Pro & Cons : please advise
one or 2cpu:
90 gb Ram
SSD and SATa mix hard drives
one network card
I'd say if you only have 2 CPUs (are these physical cores or sockets?), assuming these are cores, you're not going to be able to have any form of a nested environment regardless of how much RAM you have packed in there. And two systems each with only two physical cores doesn't help much.
one server have two cpu and each have 8 core
another have one cpu with 8 core
That would seem to be important information you omitted in your first post. You have a better shot at making a more fully-functional lab with two physical machines, but you may be able to get by with the one server.
i am looking answer what features (NSX and VSAN) i will miss with one physical host(Nested lab) as compare with two physical host (Nested)
I just use a single host with lots of RAM and CPU and everything nested. Network can be a little tricky here, but you can basically do anything with the advantage of not relying on the physical network. Inside my nested environment I have NSX-V and NSX-T running concurrently, just with different clusters for each NSX. I personally don't think VSAN is worth configuring, although it is possible in a nested environment. With your 2 host lab you would still need a third host, which could be just a witness. I personally prefer to use a NAS VM (Openfiler/Freenas) to present the disks as shared storage to the nested ESXi hosts and also have two other infra-structure VMs for the nested environment: Shared Services (DNS/NTP/etc) and a router VM (currently using VyOS).
Hello Mauricioamorim
i started started DataCenterEast . please suggest if you have any advise ? any help is welcome.
DataCenterEast (Nested)
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Dell R630
2 Eight Core CPU : intel xeon e5-2620v4
RAM: 98GB
1TB SSD for VMFS datastore using as local disk
3x500GB SSD
3x4TB HHSD
Plan: three vsan cluster
Each cluster : 1x500 SSD and 4TB HHSD each
and install NSX on these cluster
DataCenterWest (Nested)
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Dell R430
2 Six Core CPU : intel xeon e5-2620v3
RAM: 98GB
1TB SSD for VMFS datastore using as local disk
3x500GB SSD or 250GB
3x4TB HHSD
Plan: three vsan cluster
Each cluster : 1x500 SSD and 4TB HHSD each
and install NSX on these cluster