vCenter is very slow to load or configure

[jindov]

Hi guys,

I've self-studied VMWare vSphere 5.5 with my laptop:

Windows 8.1 Update 1

Core i7 3610Q 2.3GHz

8GB of RAMs

VMWare Workstation 10

I've deployed an ESXi 5.5 on a virtual machine (with 4GB of RAM), after that I've deployed a vCenter Server (4GB of RAM) on this ESXi host with VMware-vCenter-Server-Appliance-5.5.0.10000-1624811_OVF10 downloaded from vmware.com. The problem is when I connect vCenter with vSphere Web Client (https://IP_vCenter:9443/vsphere-client) it's very slow, I have to wait for a long time to load this web, long time to login, everything's really slow, sometime it's lost connection and must load again. So can someone help me how to configure my lab to make it not too slow

[a_p_]

Running vCenter Server as a nested VM and with reduced memory is certainly the reason for the slowness. What I do in my lab is to run vCenter Server as a virtual machine directly in VMware Workstation.

André

[jindov]

I'll try it again. Thank you, André.

[VRBitman]

If you can, upgrade the RAM to 16GB. Or, consider setting up your home lab on a desktop computer with 16 or 32GB. Most people use 32GB for their home labs.

8GB really don't cut it for a product designed for business/enterprise environments. Your ESXi and vCenter run, but to have a "complete" lab and learn everything, you'll want to have at least 2 ESXi nodes (4GB x2), your vCenter (4GB) and a few VMs (these can be small Linux distributions, but you'll need more than 8GB of physical RAM anyway).

ESXi and vCenter do not work with less than 4GB, so you really need to consider upgrading RAM.