{"id":2432,"date":"2017-10-21T22:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T22:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rachmadona.net\/?page_id=2432"},"modified":"2017-10-21T22:46:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T22:46:31","slug":"lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/?page_id=2432","title":{"rendered":"Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To provide my lab requirements here is some components might need to buy. All devices listed below have been tested using VMware vSphere 6.0U3a without any issue. This might the cheapest way how to build your virtualization environment without buy enterprise branded server\/storage\/network.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is to build virtualization environment consists of;<\/p>\n<p>3 ESXi Hosts with 16GB RAM of each (swap taken care by SSD)<\/p>\n<p>1 Shared storage (using iSCSI multipathing)<\/p>\n<p>2 Network devices (Gigabit for both management &amp; storage)<\/p>\n<p>Casing: Cooler Master ELITE 110 x 3<br \/>\nBiostar H61MGV3 x 3<br \/>\nIntel Core i3 3220 3.3Ghz Cache 3MB x 3 &#8212; with<br \/>\nV-GeN DDR3 8GB PC12800 x 6<br \/>\nSandisk SSD Plus 120GB x 3 &#8211;for cache\/swap<br \/>\nCooler Master ELITE POWER 350W \/\/ ENLIGHT 400W x 3<\/p>\n<p>Synology DS 916+ x1<br \/>\nSeagate 2TB For NAS &#8211; IronWolf Series x2 (raid 1)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>From software perspective; here is the list;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0VMware vSphere 6.0U3a<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0vCenter 6.0 with HA enable<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0NSX (to reduce physical network complexity)<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Site recovery manager (later on)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Additionally for the high level topology as seen below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2498\" src=\"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Screenshot_30-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently i got additional two gigabit switches so, i separated the storage connection vs. data traffic as well as vMotion traffic for better performance.<\/p>\n<p>So, the final topology has changed as depicted below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2505\" src=\"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/vmware-lab2-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Interested to build such kind of similar lab? just contact me for further discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To provide my lab requirements here is some components might need to buy. All devices listed below have been tested using VMware vSphere 6.0U3a without any issue. This might the cheapest way how to build your virtualization environment without buy enterprise branded server\/storage\/network. The idea is to build virtualization environment consists of; 3 ESXi Hosts&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2432","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rachmadona.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}