This page will include a rundown of the hardware that I will be using for my sandbox. Bear in mind that you do not need the most recent hardware and you don’t need huge amounts of ram and resources. The key for what we are trying to learn here is how everything works together and
There are two widely used network file systems for virtual machines: iSCSI and NFS. As far as which is better you will find various flame wars throughout the web akin to Ford vs. Chevy. For small environments like ours they server the same purpose. One can make the argument that some network switches are optimized
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One of the pitfalls with using Windows as a workstation (which I need to as my wife uses the same machine – we consolidated into one machine) is that you cannot run virt-manager to handle your virtual machines. Additionally, the ESXi VMWare client only runs natively on Windows, so you must have at least one
This is essentially the schema of what we are trying to do. Since we are running this in our house (or a dedicated WAN possibly at an office), I had a need to separate the server production subnet (at least in my nomenclature) vs the end-users (such as my wife and kids). I could have
In a production environment, you would want to separate the hypervisor and storage network to different networks/switches (just for easier management), but in our setup we will use one switch with multiple VLANs to isolate the traffic. This is more a function of cash flow for me as managed switches are usually several hundred dollars