Hey everyone. I'm new here and have a few questions. I am currently putting together a CCNA lab for my studies. I am also planning to take a VCP class in August and hopefully get certified thereafter. I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge C1100 72gb memory and throwing ESXi 5.1 on it. My question is
can the dell be used as an everyday computer. I understand I will be using it to lab my VMware environment, but could I also use it for daily computer tasks? Movies, websites, etc. I ask
because my computer just died on me. I have a 2011 mac mini *server edition* that has been collecting dust. I was going to sell it to offset some of my CCNA lab costs, but would I just be better off keeping it to use as my go to system and keep the lab separate? Sorry if Im not making any sense, Im very new to virtualization.
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Virtualization setup help
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Dark Shade
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Sure it can, it's just a high powered computer system. Might be loud though (fans). Toss a decent GPU in there and it will work fine.
As someone who has his CCNA, GNS3 and packet tracer are excellent tools that you can use without building a lab. I only had a few 2950 switches and 2600 series routers if I wanted hands-on help (very cheap on eBay)
As someone who has his CCNA, GNS3 and packet tracer are excellent tools that you can use without building a lab. I only had a few 2950 switches and 2600 series routers if I wanted hands-on help (very cheap on eBay)
x2. Packet Tracer is a good tool to help you study if you don't have the means to purchase switches/routers. I still play around with Packet Tracer, pretty cool little simulator.
To the OP: the only issue I see, you are wanting to install a type 1 hypervisor so how do you plan to use the server for daily use? You will need to have a second workstation to connect to the host via vsphere to use any of the guest VM's. Or am I missing something?
@msimpson....I think you hit it on the head. That's what I was trying to ask...but didn't really know how to put it. Ok...i think you answered it. So once I make that dell system my ESXI server...then that will be it's sole purpose? I would then have to load up Vsphere on a separate client to admin right? The only other computer I have is my mac mini. Am I correct in just getting fusion to run a win7 instance for vsphere? Is there still not a native client for mac?
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That's correct, the Hypervisor lives on the bare metal, and you connect to that hypervisor via the vSphere client from another machine. You create VMs on the hypervisor with vSphere and can use those VMs for your various tasks
I'm not sure on clients for Macs, a quick Google search came up with this:
http://www.punchingclouds.com/2009/06/06/vsphere-client-on-mac-os-x/
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You have options:
1. You can load Windows Server 2008R2 (without HyperV) and run VMware Workstation (nested lab)
2. You can dual boot between a (type 1) hypervisor and standard OS
You may or may not want to use the server as an everyday system though since
it was meant to be a "set it (up) and forget it" system = limited video performance.
But when on a budget ... we make it happen if we need it to.
