{"id":19,"date":"2007-05-07T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T18:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2009-10-05T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:37:30","slug":"my-test-hardware","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?page_id=19","title":{"rendered":"My test environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have a physical ESX server running ESX or ESXi (from USB) but due to the problems of running DRS, HA and VMotion with only one ESX server I switched to a full blown virtual environment.<\/p>\n<p>A Quad Core i7 with 6 GB of ram running Windows 7.<\/p>\n<p>If you are wondering of why I installed Windows 7 instead of ESX, the answer is quite simple.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m running all my ESX 4.x servers, vCenter server, EDA and Openfiler inside VMware Workstation 7 beta.<br \/>\nYes, thats right. Workstation 7 runs ESX out of the box. And I&#8217;m even able to run VM inside my ESX 4.x hosts.<\/p>\n<p>So my setup looks like this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A EDA appliance (as ow writing version 0.90)<\/li>\n<li>A vCenter server running on Windows 2008 and MSSQL2005<\/li>\n<li>Two ESX 4.x hosts (2vCPU and 2 GB ram)<br \/>\nDeployed through the EDA appliance. Easy as hell to setup.<\/li>\n<li>A Openfiler appliance for iSCSI shared storage<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nothing fancy, but it works and is simple.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have a physical ESX server running ESX or ESXi (from USB) but due to the problems of running DRS, HA and VMotion with only one ESX server I switched to a full blown virtual environment. A Quad Core i7 with 6 GB of ram running Windows 7. If you are wondering of\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/?page_id=19\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/206"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amikkelsen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}