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VMware ESXiSetup
The lab runs extremely well under ESXi, in my lab it consumes a peak of 4.5GB of RAM during build and about
40GB of disk space, although 220GB is allocated. A higher performance disk system also reduces the lab build
time as this is mainly disk IOPS constrained.
The lab will usually use a portgroup on an Internal Only Standard vSwitch, i.e. one with no physical NICs
attached. The default portgroup name is Lab_Local and this portgroup must be setup to allow Promiscuous
mode and must be on VLAN ID 4095. When the vApp is imported you may choose to use a different portgroup
for each vApp, the portgroups should be on their own vSwitch to avoid conflicts.Your ESXi server should also
have a VMkernel port on this network, IP 192.168.199.99, this will allow access to the Build share on the NAS
VM.
The router VM also connects to your main network, the default configuration calls this network External.
To enable the nested ESXi servers to run 64bit VMs your outer ESXi server needs to pass the Intel VT or AMD V
feature into the VMs. Open a command prompt on your ESXi server, either through SSH or on the local
console, and type the following command
echo 'vhv.allow = "TRUE"' >> /etc/vmware/config
Deploy on ESXi
The lab is distributed as a single ova file, this contains the NAS VM. Deploy the ova and power on the Lab_NAS
VM.
Once the NAS has booted create a new NFS datastore pointing to the Build share, server 192.168.199.7 and
Folder /mnt/LABVOL/Build as shown below
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