VMwre View Home Lab

[dmyers333]

I want to learn Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). Can someone point me in the right direction?

I have a core i7 with 32GB of Ram and VMware workstation.

What can be combined into a small footprint?

[dmyers333]

VMware View

[douglasarcidino]

In all honesty, you can do it with what you have and trial software from VMware. I assume you have windows on that machine. Do you have to have windows on that machine or can it be converted into a an ESXi host? With 32GB of RAM you can build everything you need to play but the added overhead of Windows may bite you. An alternative would be to run some trial software in vCloud on demand for testing.

A good time to plug VMUG advantage which includes $600 in vCloud Air on Demand credits where you can build a lab without having the physical hardware.

Doug

[dmyers333]

Thanks Doug

Windows 10 professional.

I have the following VMware LAB on workstation10

AD server, VCenter6, esxi6-1, esxi6-2

Can I just install the View Bits on the V Center server.

Any chance that you know of a lab guide I could follow? Blog post?

Best documents to read.

Thanks

[dmyers333]

Looks like VMUG advantage is a great tool.

[douglasarcidino · Accepted solution]

It depends is the answer. It depends how much you want to test. If you would like to test working with linked clones then you will need to install view composer and that can be installed on your vcenter server. Then you would just need to spin up a connection server VM and then create a base image for your linked clones. I would recommend using linux desktops which are now supported just so you have less overhead.

There are lots of good guides out there but if you just read the install documents you should be good to go. You seem like you have a decent amount of experience.

I've invested a lot in my home lab in order to test the most I can. HP blades with 10Gb networking and such but I kind of lost my mind....

[dmyers333]

Thanks, that will be no problem.