MCITP lab advice

Hello ,
I will start my MCITP course in few weeks from now and have just build a pc for a lab , and would like your advice please .
I have AMD PHenon Quid CPU 3.2 GHz , 8 GB DDR3 Ram 1600 Mhz
2 x 500 GB SATA HDD can add another 250 GB or 2 IDE 160 GB
I was planing to install Windows 7 64 bit and use Citrix or VMware , and in another partition installing Windows server 2008 R2 for Hyper-v .
Can you please advise and suggest an effective lab paln according to what I have with as much detias as possible
Regards
I will start my MCITP course in few weeks from now and have just build a pc for a lab , and would like your advice please .
I have AMD PHenon Quid CPU 3.2 GHz , 8 GB DDR3 Ram 1600 Mhz
2 x 500 GB SATA HDD can add another 250 GB or 2 IDE 160 GB
I was planing to install Windows 7 64 bit and use Citrix or VMware , and in another partition installing Windows server 2008 R2 for Hyper-v .
Can you please advise and suggest an effective lab paln according to what I have with as much detias as possible
Regards
Comments
I just created a separate Team with a Test LAN for local connection. I'm pretty happy with it. I've noticed the fastest way to host a new server is to make a clone of the VM before joining the domain. Kinda like an image to offer a good starting point for new servers. So far Ive run 3 DC's and 2 XP workstations at once sitting at about 6.5 gb RAM utilized. I don't have any experience with Citrix so I can not comment on that. gl
LFCE - MCITP: EDA7, VA, SA, EA - MCSA:S 2003 - CCA (PVS 5, XD 3 / 4 / 5, XS 5 / 6) - VCP 4 / 5
WGU MS:ISA Completed October 30th 2013.
I will need maybe to run 6 or 7 clients in addition to the 2008
I have another PC with 2 GB and Dual core CPU and 250 GB
Can you suggest if I need that pc or not , and also with the powerful PC , do I need more than HDD ??? to practice RAID ??
or all will done through VM ware ??
Regards
Hani
If you can use the other system do so. Add some additional RAM on that one at least up to 6 GB and you should be more than covered. From what I understand having additional HDDs for RAID would be a good thing. That could end up being your bottleneck speedwise.
WGU MS:ISA Completed October 30th 2013.
Also what about RAIDS ? do I need to prectisc that on a real HDD or on VM ?
Regards