Is there a vSphere available in a cloud to practice for the exam?

[panzerfrank]

My PC doesn't have enough memory to install ESXi.

Can I get access to vSphere in a cloudsomewhere to practice the configurations prior to taking the VCP exam?

[AntonVZhbankov · Accepted solution]

You can install vSphere in a couple of VMs in VMware Workstation / Player.

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[panzerfrank]

Hi Anton

Thanks for the hint.

It looks like the recommendation for workstation is 2 Gb ram. I will see if I can get an upgrade and then I will see if I can run the Vsphere

Why does workstation take less memory than a native install?

Da Svdanie y spassiba

Frank

[J1mbo]

RAM will be your biggest issue with this, even with 8GB things are quite tight. You'll need,

- two ESXi VMs

- Windows VM for vCentre

- OpenFiler or FreeNAS or a Debian VM with NFS confifgure (for shared storage)

- And the a couple of Windows VMs wihin the ESXi VMs

This might help: http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-vsphere-esx-install-configure-manage-preparing-your-test-lab

http://blog.peacon.co.uk

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