
My lab Setup.
My current lab consists of a single Hewlett Packard Proliant DL380 G6.
The hardware specifications are:
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Model: ProLiant DL380 G6 Processor Type: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X5560 @ 2.80GHz Logical Processors: 16 NICs: 4 Memory: 60GiB Storage: 2X Samsung evo SSD in raid0: 220GiB 1X Samsung HD103SJ: 915GiB |
On this i have installed:
VMware ESXi, 6.5.0
VMware vCenter 6.5.0
I am also running a windows server 2012 R2 server which takes care of ldap authentication (Active Directory) and DNS.
The ip addresses are:
ESXI: 192.168.1.222
vCenter: 192.168.1.223
W2012R2: 192.168.1.200
The dns server is authoritative for lab.caarels.com.
So in summary:
Basic vCenter environment with single sign-on authentication provided by microsoft active directory.