For example we won’t be able to reach anything that belong to the 1.1.1.0/24 segment from our laptop. We should have in mind that these settings will break communications to real IP addresses used here. Now we make sure that each connection has proper IP settings. Right click a network, selecting “Rename”, repeated for each connection will eventually yield to this situation:
We will rename all connections, so it is clearer to us which network is for which purpose. When we are done, within a network connections we should see all our networks: We repeat the process for all other networks. When we click “Apply” our settings should look like this: Then we make sure that the “Host-only (connect VMs internally in a private network)” option is selected, the “Use local DHCP service to distribute IP address to VMs” deselected, the “Subnet IP” is 1.1.1.0 and the “Subnet mask” is 255.255.255.0. We click “Add Network”, then select VMnet1 for our management network and click “OK”. Then we will add our networks to match our diagram. This is not what we want, so we will first delete all networks by selecting each of them and clicking “Remove Network”. We select “Edit->Virtual Network Editor”. Now it’s time to start the Workstation and go to the “Virtual Network Editor”. So we deselect “Help improve VMware Workstation” and click “Next”. Right now we don’t want to participate in VMware’s improvement program. We deselect “Check for product updates on startup”. Let’s leave a default installation location and click “Next”. We will be OK with the “Typical” installation. Let’s begin …Īfter starting the installer we click “Next”. Configuring networking for NFS and vMotionĪfter downloading this product from VMware’s site, we start the installation.Installing the ESXi host as a virtual machine.Installing and setting up VMware Workstation.To create this lab, we will go through these steps:
Everything else is virtual! I’m running this lab on Windows8 and VMware workstation 9. The only physical thing in this lab is my laptop. Although some of these features (perhaps all?) could use single adapter, this is not considered a best practice. We have two ESXi hosts that are connected to varies networks for varies purposes: management, NFS, iSCSI, vMotion and FT. So, we will create the lab that is depicted in the following diagram: We can do this on our laptops! For labing something out before production, for preparing an exam, … Perhaps we want our test environment to travel with us.
#Vmware vsphere 6.5 lab on pc or laptop install
Let’s say we want to learn a VMware vSphere products, such as ESXi server, vCenter server, HA, vMotion, FT, … We could do that with two physical servers on which we would install ESXi hypervisor, but we don’t have servers to spare, we don’t want extra heat generated and electricity consumed in our datacenter.