You are a little light on HD space, to run everything. I would go with ESXi 5 and use thin provisioning. I think you will get better performance if you use ESXi vs Workstation. Until I got my hands on a UCS server, I built a home based PC with 2 TB of drive space and 16 gig of RAM, and an adaptec controller card. This ran 5 VM's pretty well and I had no issues with Audio.
Craig -----Original Message----- From: ccie_voice-boun...@onlinestudylist.com [mailto:ccie_voice-boun...@onlinestudylist.com] On Behalf Of Ramcharan Arya Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2012 10:27 PM To: ccie_voice@onlinestudylist.com Subject: [OSL | CCIE_Voice] Question of Home lab virtual server setup Hello, Apologies for sending this message to the list. I need your advice regarding my home lab. My CUCM was running on a desktop which crashed now I got new HP DL 360 G5 server it is 2x QUAD-cpu XEON 2.00 Gig hz. This server has 16 Gig RAM. Currently server is configured with RAID 5 so disk spare is showing 400 Gig but I want to change to RAID 0 so I can have full 590 Gig disk space. I have two choices: 1. Install Windows 2008 R2 enterprise edition 64 bit OS eval 180 days. Then install VMware Workstations 7.0 and create 4-5 virtual machines. 2. Install ESXI 5.1 which is free and manage Virtual environment using vSphere client Because I want to take snapshot of these VM for these virtual machine on regular basis. This is my last attempt to build this server otherwise I will start using proctorlab rack if it does not work. Please suggest and send your response directly. Has anyone setup Unifiedfx lab edition. In my setup Audio is not working. Please share your advice Thanks & Regards, Ramcharan Arya CCIE # 28926 _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com Are you a CCNP or CCIE and looking for a job? Check out www.PlatinumPlacement.com
