Lab Recommendations

I just got the MCSE 2008 Books from Bookpool.

What kind of lab setup do I need?

I currently have VMWare 1.07 running, and I have 2k8, 2k3, XP Pro and Vista
Virtual machines made.

How many machines do I need? VMWare lets me run 5 at once, I think. I have
4GB ram for my desktop PC.

Any suggestions? What do you guys run for your labs?

 

7 X XP at 6GB RAM each
6 x Vista at 8 RAM each
Main OS at 100GB RAM
Solitaire at 156TB RAM

 

What about bit torrent?

John R

 

1 Domain Controller, 1 Server 2008 (to dcpromo as a 2nd DC) 1 Vista Client
and/or 1 XP sp3 client. Use snapshots once you have those 4 and you can
pretty well do any exercise or test any concepts you like. Another Server
2008 can be handy, put it on a different subnet/vlan so you can setup sites
and test/view replication across a simulated WAN link.

Wayne McGlinn
Brisbane, Oz
MCNGP Silver

 

I used 2 laptops and a crossover cable. I loaded the Server 2008 demo on the
newer Dell laptop. The older Dell laptop had a dual boot with Windows 2000
and the server 2003 demo. This setup just worked fine for a mimal study lab.
If you load a demo version on a laptop, make sure you have a good battery.
The battery on the older laptop was flaky. Every time the battery died, the
system lost it's time and hosed the demo license. I had to reinstall Server
2003 several times because of that.