vCloud Director 5.1 Lab

[Moif_Murphy]

Hello,

I'm following Chris Wahl's excellent vCloud Director 5.1 Essentials on Trainsignal and I'm tidying up my Vmware Workstation Lab that I built following Sammy Bogaert's guide when I was studying for my VCP: Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab

It's currently set out so that I have one datacenter with one cluster with 2 x hosts. Obviously I want to set up the lab so that I have a separate management cluster as per recommended practices. I'm assuming that I'm ok with creating a new cluster with just the one host? Or should I go for another. I'm also assuming that all hosts will need to be able to talk to each other and access the same shared storage.

Are there any other caveats I need to be aware of?

Incidentally, the Train Signal videos are worth taking a look at - and no, I don't work for them

[rh5592]

If you are planning to play around with VXLAN make sure to enable Promiscous mode and Forged Transmit in vDS. You can check out William Lam's article virtuallyGhetto: How To Enable Nested ESXi Using VXLAN In vSphere & vCloud Director

[JustinPaul]

You can create a second cluster with one host. Even though there is just one host in it you will still want to enable DRS if you plan to use it with vCloud Director.

[kaarthickvasude]

Hi Murphy

We should have minimum 2 Esx host and with fully automated DRS & HA.We should configured Distributed Switch if you are using Vcloud Environment .