Do you have a physical or a virtual lab?

binarysoulbinarysoul Member Posts: 993
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If you have a virtual lab, what's your technology or setup like? If physical, how many PCs?

I'm using VMware Workstation and soon will install Vmware Server.
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  • gbdavidxgbdavidx Member Posts: 840
    i'm using vmware workstation, 3 servers, need to add another one with 2 clients, is vmware server that much better?
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  • binarysoulbinarysoul Member Posts: 993
    gbdavidx wrote: »
    i'm using vmware workstation, 3 servers, need to add another one with 2 clients, is vmware server that much better?

    Server is definitely better, but needs more resources which I don't have on my laptop. I only have 4GB of RAM, not enough to carry a server plus clients, but I will install once to see how it goes.
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  • gc8dc95gc8dc95 Member Posts: 206 ■■□□□□□□□□
    I have one server running esxi 5.1 and workstation on my laptop (16GB, ssd, and i5.)
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  • SlowhandSlowhand Mod Posts: 5,161 Mod
    I've started really digging using VMWare Workstation to spin up machines I need for labbing. Considering that I generally don't need more than two, sometimes three, servers for any given lab-scenario that's more than enough to run a couple of VMs with two or three gigs of RAM each.

    I've got an HP Elitebook 2560p laptop with 16GB of RAM and a nice little quad-core i5 CPU. I've got a solid state hard drive I want to drop into it, and then I'm going to get a nice, big storage drive to put into the expansion bay to hold my VMs. It serves pretty much all my needs, and lets me take my studies out and about so I can plunk down in a coffee shop as I work.
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  • TheProfTheProf Users Awaiting Email Confirmation Posts: 331 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I have a physical lab.. 3 servers, a NAS, and a switch.. installed vSphere 5.1.
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  • blueberriesblueberries Banned Posts: 138
    Both. And they are connected.
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  • QHaloQHalo Member Posts: 1,488
    Virtual - my laptop W530, 32GB of RAM, SSDs, nested ESXi, vCenter and two ONTAP virtual storage arrays
    Physical - two whitebox ESXi hosts and a QNAP NAS
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  • cruwlcruwl Member Posts: 341 ■■□□□□□□□□
    Virtual - Primary host: Server 2008 R2 running hyper-V - Phenom II x4 3.5Ghz 8gb Ram 90Gb SSD primary 8Tb storage space
    Virtual - Secondary Host when needed: Laptop running Server 2008 R2 running Hyper-V 16Gb ram 600GB HDD.
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  • Asif DaslAsif Dasl Member Posts: 2,116 ■■■■■■■■□□
    Physical:

    1 x Asus M5A97 R2.0 - Athlon II X4 640 - 32GB RAM - 256 GB SSD - Windows 7/ESXi 5.1/Gaming
    1 x Asus M5A97 R2.0 - Athlon II X4 640 - 32GB RAM - 500 GB HDD - Windows 7/ESXi 5.1
    1 x Atom 330 - 4GB RAM - 500 GB HDD - Server 2008 R2 DC
    1 x ReadyNAS Pro 4 - 4 x 2TB
    1 x Netgear GS108T 8 Port Gig Switch

    I also have 2 x HP NC365T 4 Port Gig NICs but they are not being fully utiltised by ESXi because I don't have a big enough switch at the moment but I won't upgrade that until I totally upgrade my setup when the Shuttle SZ87R6 is released. I'll probably put 2 x 8 core FX8350 in to the 2 ESXi Hosts and run Hyper-V on them.
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  • binarysoulbinarysoul Member Posts: 993
    Interesting responses so far. Honestly, I was expecting most would have virtual networks, but I was wrong as the responses so far are mixed.

    Qahlo said he has 32 GB of RAM! Divide that by 8 to get how much RAM I have.
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  • Snow.brosSnow.bros Member Posts: 832 ■■■■□□□□□□
    I have a virtual don't find time to play around with it.
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  • NinjaBoyNinjaBoy Member Posts: 968
    Both :)
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  • DevilWAHDevilWAH Member Posts: 2,997 ■■■■■■■■□□
    I have both, I am lucky in that work have given us 4 X Dell 2950 servers with 32gig ram a piece and a netapp server with about 30Tbyes. Some FC switches and full VMware licencing. So we have a nice development lab set up to play with and can steal chunks of.

    I then have second 8 core machine with 32gig ram for running GNS3 for my cisco stuff, and a bunch of old switches laying around.

    All accessible via VPN so I got rid of my own personal lab a few years back. I would love to have a physical CISCO lab at home and might start building it up again. But for now what work is kindly providing is great.
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