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07/24/2008 Run ESX in a VM Just for Fun -- Comments
Did you know that it is possible to run multiple ESX servers, a Virtual Center server, a NAS appliance all on a laptop? Even more cool is that VMotion will work to live migrate VMs between the two ESX servers, which by the way are running on a single laptop. It is important to note that none of this is supported, but it does give you a really cool ESX testing environment - on your laptop!
The complete details about how to get this installed and running were contributed to delltechcenter.com on a new wiki page - Virtual Infrastructure Test Environment. Jose Maria from Dell in Europe uses this configuration to show how VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter work together. He gets lots of questions about how he did it so he put together this doc to explain. He's included lots of screen shots which makes it easy to follow.
The basic configuration that he uses is a Dell Latitude D630 with 4GB of RAM running VMware Workstation.
Todd
The complete details about how to get this installed and running were contributed to delltechcenter.com on a new wiki page - Virtual Infrastructure Test Environment. Jose Maria from Dell in Europe uses this configuration to show how VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter work together. He gets lots of questions about how he did it so he put together this doc to explain. He's included lots of screen shots which makes it easy to follow.
The basic configuration that he uses is a Dell Latitude D630 with 4GB of RAM running VMware Workstation.
Todd
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| Nepharim | also virtualized 3.5 infrastructure with 2 esx servers | 5 | Jul 30 2008, 3:42 PM EDT by jose_maria_gonzalez | |
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Good morning,
I`m happy to see that I`m not too crazy *g , I successfully implented a VI 3.5 infrastructure on a XPS 420 with Q6600 with 4 gb ram, using vmware workstation 6.5 beta and using starwind to emulate a shared iscsi storage. It runs smooth , but I cannot recommend to install a virtual machine directly on emulated esx hosts, it took up to 3 hours of completing a standard installation of a windows 2003 server. Better create VM`s on on workstation host and import them via VC *g definately faster If interested I`ll post my VMX config file and some useful links to "virtualize esx 3.5I" also. I also tested other "ISCSI" solutions like open-e and lefthand Networks, Starwind offers also a VTL connector. I used Windows XP with sp 3 as host for VMWARE workstation, habd bad problems with vista due to network config Good to hear that the laptop solution works as well *g Cheers and greetings from Germany Neph |
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