Lab Requirements General TCIP knowledge and what a router is. This is a good resource to start with An Installation of vSphere ESXi 6.5 (for me) with a network connection Download pfSense ISO from pfSense website for FREE. Basic vSphere virtualization knowledge is assumed. Why pfSense? Well, first, its free and there are is a
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I was trying to upgrade an ESXi host Dell R610 from 5.5 to 6.5 and I got this message: The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs: LSI_bootbank_scsi-mpt3sas_04.00.00.00.1vmw-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 LSI_bootbank_scsi-mpt3sas_04.00.00.00.1vmw-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 Remove the conflicting VIBs or use Image Builder to create a custom upgrade ISO image that contains the newer versions of the conflicting VIBs, and
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After seeing people’s response on Spiceworks about how their home labs have helped them in their career, I decided to do a writeup on how to setup a home lab on a budget(Single ESXi host and VMs) Who is this series for: Junior IT Technicians (Helpdesk) who want to build a home lab but do
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Requirements 3 ESXi Hosts vCenter Install A domain Controller with Reverse lookup enabled Step 1 Create a New Cluster in vCenter Enable VSAN in new cluster and leave the default automatic disk discovery Drag and Drop all 3 ESXi hosts into the new cluster Or right click on an ESXi host and choose move to
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After installing vCenter in the (previous blogpost) we now need to add our ESXi Hosts to vCenter and Create a cluster. Lab Requirements: 3 ESXi Host. See How to Install ESXi In Ravello AWS/Google Cloud Lab vCenter Server or Appliance No Hosts in VCenter at this moment Start all ESXi hosts (Verify that all 3 ESXi
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Lab Requirements : A Ravello account. You can create a free 14 day trial account here A windows server 2012 server installed (VSRV2012-VCenter) and joined to a domain. A VMware account to download vCenter windows installer and upload the ISO to Ravello Step One Attach the uploaded vCenter ISO to the installed Server 2012 (VSRV2012-VCenter)
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