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- VMware vSphere
If you’re interested in building your own home VMware vSphere lab then take a look at this video that David Davis, the instructor of our best selling VMware vSphere training, recently created and posted on his site VMwareVideos.com.
David details his virtualization lab including servers and storage and shows you what it takes to run vSphere on your machine. Before you watch the video please note that David forgot to mention that the Intel Quad Q6600 shown in the video does run vSphere 4 as well so it is a compatible whitebox which uses the MSI7450 BIOS.
Take a look at the video and feel free to embed it on your own blog and share it with your readers! The embed code is up for grabs in the video — just click on the embed button on the bottom right of the video. Enjoy!
Can you ask David Davis if he thinks ESX 3.5 and/or ESX 4 will run on the following machine?
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13529_na/13529_na.HTML
jr
Hi John,
Thanks for your comment!
If you are wanting to run ESX 3.5 or 4 inside Workstation on this laptop then, YES, it should work well. I see that the laptop offers an Intel i7 or i5 CPU that (from what I saw, includes the VT CPU option). I would want to doublecheck that you can ENABLE VT in the BIOS (my Sony VAIO has VT in the CPU but you can’t enable it in the BIOS – but Sony is the only company I have heard of who does this).
On the other hand, if you wanted to run ESX 3.5 or 4 directly on the laptop (without Windows and VMware Workstation) then I would say – no – don’t do it. Very unlikely the disk and network adapters on the laptop won’t be compatible with ESX.
Hope that helps!
Thanks again,
David