Home lab needed for vcap-dca

[scottcardinal]

howdy all,

looking for a home lab if anyone is looking to sale theirs.

please let me know.

thanks.

[JoshuaAndrewsVM]

Windows 64-bit + Workstation 11 on a system with 24+ GB RAM and an i7 CPU, with decent hard drives (SSD if you want deployments to go quickly)

Four networks

Two hosts

Windows 2008 R2 with the free StarWinds iSCSI target and Windows NFS ("file services for unix") for all shared storage, DNS, DHCP, AD and as the initial desktop

one Windows server with the simple vCenter install then turn on Orchestrator

Load vCenter Replication and vma appliances on to the nested hosts.

once up, set all disks to independent, non persistent and have fun.

If you want to see this in action (tho I'm using Windows iSCSI target not Starwinds) I can let you RDP into mine.

[scottcardinal]

Joshua,

Thanks for the reply. I have a Toshiba LT with i7 and 64bit 8.1 that can be upgraded to 32gig ram. It has ssd drive. Looks like I can pull this off.

1. How do I get a windows server loaded without a lic? Or just use the 180 day eval?

2. So you’re saying load dns, dhcp and ad on the same servers as vcenter?

Is there some kind of HOW TO doc step by step on this? I’d love to do this.

Thanks

[scott28tt]

Moderator note: Moved to the VCAP forum area.

[JoshuaAndrewsVM]

two windows servers, vCenter and the domain controller

[scottcardinal]

Ok so set up one server as DC with dns and dchp and then another for vc.

I’d like to see yours in action that would be cool.

Thanks again.

[JoshuaAndrewsVM]

New post with more on the DCA550 replica

http://sostechblog.com/2015/03/05/vcap5-dca-practice-environment-test-track-v-550-lab-on-a-laptop-ii...

[scottcardinal]

Thanks and here is something I found that is about the same with a vid on how to.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.youtube.com_watch-3Fv-3DXiP7aVR9qxg&d=AwIGa...

[williambishop]

If you can find one for under 500$, I would get one of the Dell c1100's, you can go to 256GB of memory, 4-12 drives, has dual 5650 procs with a total of 12 physical cores, and 24 HT cores. I have run as many as 15 vm's on mine and I only have 48 gig of ram. It uses a single power supply and is very robust...use eval editions for all your installs, that way you get plenty of practice building out vm's and os's. Tiger Direct and Newegg have them rather regularly cheap.

[falanazi]

hi

if you really want to pass the exam with working hard

you will need to buy the following below

1. Synology DiskStation DS1511

2. two tower server with I7

3. RAM 32 GB on each

4. NIC on both

Amazon.com: Intel PRO/1000 Pt Dual Port Server Adapter: Electronics

5. switch from HP

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003UL531W/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

6. 1 SSD with 128GB on each server, also  1 terabyte wd red sata

OR you can escape part 1 and buy third tower server with I7 and use VSAN