Today, in part 4 we will create our ESX’es. 1. Go to the tab VMs. You need to click on the “+ sign” if you don’t see a list of available VMs to add. 2. Click on the “+ sign” next to the “Empty ESX”. 3. In the general tab we update the Name & … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part4) – Deploy ESX’es
In this 3rd episode we will configure our shared storage for our home lab.We will take care of that with a FreeNAS VM which is available in the Ravello repo => linkSearch for FreeNAS and click on “Add to Library”. 1. Create the FreeNAS VM 1. We go to the tab VMs. You need to … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part3) – Deploy FreeNAS
In this second part of my blog we’ll configure our networking and build our first windows server that will function as our DC / DNS / NTP / …. 1. Create an application 1. In your Ravello dashboard you go to Applications and click on “Create application” 2. You give your application a name and … More How to build my ESXi Home lab in the cloud (part2) – Deploy DC
Finally, I decided to get a home lab to prepare for my VMware certifications and to play around with upgrades and features. But then I realized it’s just the start of my journey. So many questions that suddenly pop-up. What do I get? How big is my budget? Do I want to pick and choose … More How to build my ESXi Home lab (part1)
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