Well, for the past 3 few weeks I have been wearing a different hat. Where I work we are receiving more and more business for VMware. Being that it is something I have used in the past, where I used to work we used VMware server but nothing to the degree in which we are using currently. The more and more I read network blogs and data center blog VMware is heavily used. So I took it upon myself to take the next few weeks and build a VCP Lab. My Dynamips box is a pretty beefy server but if I wanted virtualize to instances of ESXi and run Dynamips at the same time I would need more memory. So I stepped it up a bit.. oh yeah and CPU, I built another computer for a HTPC so I put the AMD X4 in that and purchased a X4 for my Dynamips box.
Current Specs.
AMD X6 Phenom II
16GB of DDR3 Memory!
and my 3550 has a Added 2 new Gbics.. I tried to Etherchannel to Fedora it worked but it was a Mess inside Workstation, it simply did not work out right.
I purchased 2 more NICs. Both Gigabit Intel 1000/MT cards. One is PCI-Xpress the other PCI.. Since I ran out of PCI slots 😦
So I wanted to run a full VCP lab like most have within VMWare Workstation. Virtualizing ESXi instances then adding a XP 64 bit machine to tie in Vcenter… so 4 gigs to each ESXi server 1 gig to my Vcenter host then trunking each of the VLANS from my 3550 GBICs to my Dynamips server. I will have more to come later here is a Visio Diagram.
and the less impressive real thing!
After I finish with this I am going to hop back on the CCIE train,,,
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Microsoft lunch new VCP 5 exam. Microsoft Replace the VCP-410 in to VCP-510.