
You must be a vExpert though, but fortunately I am a veteran vExpert I have always loved these perks of being a vExpert and that helped push my career faster forward.
I had been running with this idea of a mobile lab for some time now, should be easy right? Let me share my experience with setting it all up and the tips and tricks I discovered along the way.įor the VMware software packages, Fusion and vSphere, you can go to VMware Customer Connect Download Page or as I did go to the vExpert portal.
Microsoft Windows Server 2022 – June update. VMware VCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) – version 7.0.3. Also, my tension arc is that of a goldfish so I might go down one rabbit hole exploring and find 10.000 other interesting things not necessarily tied to my main objective while keeping the lab running and accumulating costs.įor the creation of my mobile lab I will be using several software packages from Apple, VMware, Microsoft and Veeam but the hardware base will be a MacBook Pro 16” (2019). Costs – I irregular test things, so running a lab in the cloud will cost more money, even if you shut down everything after being done you still have the storage cost ticking. Presenting – If I can get it working smoothly, I can start using it on main stage so not relying on that event WIFI together with everyone else. Security – I am mostly testing some fast things with alpha or beta software that also is tied to cyber security in some way and some of those gems you don’t want to let loose in a shared lab environment or a cloud which scans the software running…. I hear you thinking why do you not deploy the lab in a cloud? I have three reasons for that: This way I will have a lab I can carry around with me on my travels around the world. I am going to setup a mobile lab on my MacBook Pro with the help of VMware Fusion 12 so I can run some ESXi servers with nested virtualization.