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singhraj
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NSX Home Lab (Nested) with Two Physical Host or One Physical Host : Pro & Cons

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

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daphnissov
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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.

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singhraj
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one server have two cpu and each have 8 core

another have one cpu with 8 core

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daphnissov
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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.

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singhraj
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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)

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mauricioamorim
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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).

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singhraj
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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

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