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Virtual machines

greg9891

Which virtual machines do you currently use and why do you use them?

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joelsfood

At home or at work? At work, pretty much anything that doesn't require a physical card (ie dialogic cards, etc) is virtualized.

Home lab has (though they're rarely all running at same time):
VCSA
Windows 2012 box

Then all of my training/testing/study VMs
Nexus 1000v (VSM)
vMX
Firefly
Data Ontap Cluster Mode Simulator
VNX Simulator
F5 BigIP Virtual Edition
Virtually Ghetto VSAN appliance, 3 node
UCS Platform Emulator
Probably something else I'm forgetting

greg9891

The study vms that I Plan to run are:
Exchange 2013
windows server 2012
Hyper v
Fog imaging server &
Esxi, Vcenter for vmware
windows 7
windows xp
windows 10
linux

InfOut

RHEL7
F5 BigIP VE
XP

kj0

Haven't turned on my lab for a couple of weeks due to work commitments again. So, off the top of my head.

AD (2008r2)
VCSA 6.0
XP Desktop
Ubuntu server

I did have NSX installed, but have since removed.

That's it for the moment as I had been testing out a few different OS' here and there, but since removed.

cyberguypr

My homelab runs the following VMs:
- IncrediblePBX
- pfsense
- Ubuntu desktop
- Ubuntu Server
- CentOS
- A few Win 7
- XP
- Security Onion
- Kali
- A few vulnerable VMs
- Windows stuff (ADs, Exchange, File/Print, etc.) primarily dormant as I've been out of the Microsoft game fro a while.

I'm actually planning a lab revamp project so this should shrink a bit.

nascar_paul

Server 2012r2 level domain with:
Hyper-V
A couple of Domain Controllers
Active Directory Certificate Services
DHCP
Windows Distribution Services Server

Heavy 2012r2 focus while I work though the 411 and I'll go to VMM while I tackle the 409. Then it's over to ESXi as the primary environment. For me it's all about learning the services, picking apart the replication processes, and configuring and maintaining a Microsoft infrastructure. (For now!)

greg9891

nascar_paul wrote: »

Server 2012r2 level domain with:
Hyper-V
A couple of Domain Controllers
Active Directory Certificate Services
DHCP
Windows Distribution Services Server

Heavy 2012r2 focus while I work though the 411 and I'll go to VMM while I tackle the 409. Then it's over to ESXi as the primary environment. For me it's all about learning the services, picking apart the replication processes, and configuring and maintaining a Microsoft infrastructure. (For now!)

I am going to run windows server 2012 for the same reason. Plus its what my work environment uses. 2012 and hyper v.

Chris_Wess

I use VirtualBox as it is extremely easy to use even by a new Linux user. The main features and functionalities that can be easily accessed without any hard-core technical knowledge. Its biggest advantage is its cross platform support, open source. Install virtualbox on Linux, windows, and Mac OS X.