hi all i am new to vmware and want to learn it to get certified
so i want to create a test server for learning so kiindly suggest me the configuration
Check out this one:
http://boerlowie.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/building-the-ultimate-vsphere-lab-part-1-the-story/
really amazing and well help you through if you're new, i have used it to build my lab and i passed the exam 4 months ago, i still use the lab to test things before do it in production.
Hi,
I use VMware workstation in my 8 GB RAM laptop. Not the best but enough to get to test lots of things.
It's important to play a little bit with things like networking, vCenter, Storage adapters, host profiles, update manager, resource pools, HA and DRS, vMotion, storage vmotion (thins like having machines with snapshots and vmotion them, etc).
The ideal configuration for me would be to have 2 esxi hosts (they could be virtual if your enviroment allows that), 1 shared storage (like openfiler), 1 vCenter, 1 Active Directory.
You won't be able to test everything, obviously but this should get you going. It worked for me.
Take a look at VCP blueprint in order to know what is going to be expected from you in the test (like be sure they are going to ask about dVS before testing that or if it got updated with things like Web Client, VSA, etc). Break things fixing them it's the best way to learn. Get active in the community, you will help others and hopefully you will also learn a lot from very experienced people...I'm learning quite a lot actually
Get familiar with configuration maximums and if you have the chance to read some book like "cram exam" (I don't remember the name right now), that's really helpful.
Good luck!
elgreco81
Check out this one:
http://boerlowie.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/building-the-ultimate-vsphere-lab-part-1-the-story/
really amazing and well help you through if you're new, i have used it to build my lab and i passed the exam 4 months ago, i still use the lab to test things before do it in production.
thanks
nice blog
Hi
I am excited about sharing this information with you to help you prepare to take and pass the VCP5 test. You can log on to my blog http://www.vmwaretrainings.com and get quality training and practices guidelines.
I will suggest to have a LAB ready on VMware workstation 9 or one system for vCenter and couple of for ESXi hosts.
Thanks
Chandra Shekher