best way to build the lab

[prakash001]

Hello Experts,

I am building the lab,  where I have a HP ml110 server with 128GB Memory, 4TB Storage and Intel 10 cores without HT,  I am not worried about performance.

Is it good to build an environment on top of VMware workstation, where I could leverage virtual appliance for storage and the workstation network adapter to create multiple network, to provision multiple storage and nic to multiple ESXi VMs aslo I am thinking to deploy & build vRA environment with NSX.

Please share your thoughts

Regards,

Prakash

[Alex_Romeo]

Hi,

you can take some ideas.

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[daphnissov]

I would probably deploy ESXi on top of this hardware. This is also not strictly a vRA question and so I'd move to a more appropriate sub-forum so it gets more responses.