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ESX in Workstation

Duncan Epping · Dec 10, 2008 ·

Lately I’ve been testing scripted builds of ESX hosts and several other tools like RDA. Because of this I had to reinstall my ESX hosts several times. Sometimes I actually had to completely delete them before I could start over again. You can consider this blog posting as a note to myself, this way I can do a simple search on my own blog when everything is screwed up again:

  1. Create Virtual Machine, Custom
  2. WS 6.5 Compatibility
  3. Linux Kernel, other
  4. Number of processors: 2
  5. Memory: 1024
  6. Bridged Networking (change to team later on)
  7. LSI Logic
  8. New disc, SCSI
  9. 6GB, pre-allocated, single file
  10. Customize hardware, remove: soundcard, usb, floppy
    set execution mode to: Intel VT-x
  11. Edit .vmx and add the following:
    ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"
    monitor_control.restrict_backdoor = "true"
  12. Install ESX
  13. Add VM to Team and select “LAN 1” for networking(keep the test vm’s completely isolated)

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  1. Lee says

    11 December, 2008 at 00:12

    Hi Duncan – Would you mind advising what are the specs of your home lab for your ESX environment (that runs within Workstation)?

    What would you recommend for a home lab that runs within workstation? Something that will allow a few test VM’s… test SRM etc

  2. Tomahawk says

    11 December, 2008 at 01:59

    I did this a while back so that I could play around with ESX within VMware Fusion. I talked about it here: http://www.brianmadden.com/forums/t/30171.aspx#111942

  3. Duncan says

    12 December, 2008 at 20:20

    I run a X61 Lenovo DualCore laptop(with VT) with 4GB memory. I guess memory is the most important part of running all the esx hosts and VT technology is also important. I guess any whitebox with 4GB and a decent processor should be fine to run at least 2 hosts and virtualcenter!

  4. Roger Lund says

    12 December, 2008 at 22:35

    Duncan,

    Thanks for posting, this is something I have not yet tried, and I linked to this on my blog because of that.

    Roger L

    http://rogerlunditblog.blogspot.com/

  5. vmadmin says

    29 December, 2008 at 23:45

    http://www.vmadmin.co.uk/index.php/resources/35-esxserver/88-esxinworkstation

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist in the Office of CTO of the Cloud Platform BU at VMware. He is a VCDX (# 007), the author of the "vSAN Deep Dive", the “vSphere Clustering Technical Deep Dive” series, and the host of the "Unexplored Territory" podcast.

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