The rest of the core software that I used is: While vSphere 6.5 was released in November, there are many inter-operability issues with other VMware products at this time, so I decided to not use that version yet. The bread and butter of VMware is our core product vSphere. I will get into these scripts later in Part 6. Since I’ve setup a shutdown script, I also wanted to create a startup script as well. The last piece of software that I installed was Unified Remote, this will give me the ability to shutdown my lab cleanly and quickly by running my powershell shutdown script. All of the VMware management clients will be installed on this as well (VMRC, PowerCLI, CloudClient, etc…). I also need DNS, even if AD isn’t available, so I put DNS on this server as well.

Time sync is something that is critical once you start integrating with multiple products, so running time from this physical server was something that needed to be done since trying to run it in a VM never ends up working well in my experience. So I just had to remove the old ESXi USB key and leverage the internal drives for installing Server 2012 and other misc software that I needed on the OOB server. My goal in each phase is to deploy all of the phase’s software before I move on to the next phase.Īs I mentioned last post, the OOB server was a Intel NUC I had laying around from my old lab. This post wont cover how i configured the software, as I will leave that for a later post (or multiple if necessary). Part 5 – The Configuration (coming soon)īecause I am wanting to demo almost every piece of software VMware has, I had to break the software and group them into 5 phases, this way I could focus without too many “squirrel” moments.Now to continue where I left off from part 1… The idea is that I had something tangible to demonstrate the power of the SDDC and its ability to eliminate the need for massive amounts of data center space. Previously I reviewed my overall idea for the Portable SDDC.

Vmware thinapp v4.6.2