I am still working at Atos and thought I might try and
re-apply for vExpert this/next year, so I am writing a blog post on my current
fun project – trying to get VCF and Cloud Builder working in a Nested VMWare
Workstation Lab!
For this I am using my LabTop™ which is an IBM *cough* sorry
– LENOVO P70 with 40GB RAM (2x16GB and 2x4GB), but I can upgrade it to 64GB by
swapping out the 2x4GB dimms and replacing with another 2x16GB.
For storage I have a 512GB nvme drive for the Host OS
(Windows) and a 1TB SSD in the 2.5” drive bay configured as D: to the host. I
will keep most (if not all) of my VMDKs on the D: as I have run some pretty big
labs (one was using about 34GB of RAM over 8 VMs) on this setup before and I
never noticed the VMDKs struggling.
Standby for more posts as I figure out how to do this, but I’ll
be starting of with this post from my ex-colleague;
https://blog.bertello.org/2019/08/building-nested-vcf-using-vcf-lab-constructor-vlc/
I *may* then tear down the product and try to set up
manually if I have learnt enough :D
