How to divide up resources for a nested lab for VCP

Messaged one member directly but wanted to get the virtualization communities input on this, as I see variations on how to dedicate laptop resources, which vary between the available resources on the laptop from guide to guide.
I currently have the laptop I referenced in another thread, having 16GB RAM and a 250GB Samsung 840evo SSD, and wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to split up the resources between 2 ESXi hosts / vCenter server / DC / hosts / etc.
Thanks for any and all responses!
I currently have the laptop I referenced in another thread, having 16GB RAM and a 250GB Samsung 840evo SSD, and wondering if anyone has suggestions on how to split up the resources between 2 ESXi hosts / vCenter server / DC / hosts / etc.
Thanks for any and all responses!
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4GB each ESXi Host
4GB vCenter
You then have some left over for your laptop applications or to create a few additonal VMs. If you are using Windows 8 or 8.1 I highly suggest you look into enabling deduplication on your VM volume.
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EDIT:
Soon as I posted that, I found the answer in the next blog I dug through
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and based on a 16-GB i7 Thinkpad W510
VC 1CPU, 4GB, Win2k3 vCenter 5.0
vCenter, Autodeploy, Syslog, SQL Express
SC02 and SC03 (ESXi 5.0) 2CPU, 3GB
DC 1CPU, 3GB (Win2k8 R2)
AD, DNS, DHCP, NTP, iSCSI target, NFS, scripts to populate observed network
for RDP access to test track, this serves as the initial desktop
VMA 1CPU, 600MB
VUM 1CPU, 2GB, Win2k3, vCenter Update Manager 5.0
Note that this is to duplicate the VCAP5-DCA environment closely, not study for VCP. It's also based on 5.0
If doing it from scratch I would put VUM on the VC server.
Note also that the 2008R2 domain controller is also the shared storage server with NFS installed as well as the iSCSI target software.
Getting a bulk of the VM's spun up tonight, and then the labbing it up begins soon
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If your labbing up v5.0, you can do this to renew your trial without uninstalling. If your labbing up v5.5, then from what I have read you need to reinstall vCenter.
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Right now I got the two ESXi hosts spun up, tomorrow will be DC and vCenter, and trying to setup some login info for the ESXi hosts. I wasn't able to log in with the root username / pass I setup during initoal configuration via vSphere client, so I'm assuming that is for later configuration.
Thanks again for the input, you guys rock!
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Now with 16GB of RAM (and higher RAM requirements for ESXi to begin with) you are certainly in a better shape.
I agree with Bloogen, this is what I would do. In fact, again back in the day, I used Server Core (200
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