Building an Affordable vSphere Environment for a Lab or Small Business

Building an Affordable vSphere Environment for a Lab or Small Business
This session will cover how to build a vSphere home lab or an environment for use in a small business. It will cover the following areas:
1) How to choose the hardware, including white box hardware, brand name hardware, network components and storage
2) What the hardware compatibility guide means and the consequences of using unsupported hardware
3) Making sure the hardware you choose will work with vSphere
4) Using VMware Workstation to run nested hypervisors and virtual machines
5) Using ESX or ESXi to run nested hypervisors or virtual machines
6) Installing ESXi on to a USB flash drive
7) How to choose and use affordable shared storage devices
Using free ESXi and free administration tools to manage it
9) Using the affordable Essentials editions to gain big features at a reduced cost
10) Putting it all together to make a virtual environment
Speaker(s):
Simon Gallagher, Infrastructure Architect, vinf.net
Simon Seagrave, Senior Technical Consultant/vSpecialist, EMC Corporation
Eric Siebert, Senior Systems Administrator, Boston Market
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