VMware VS4-STD-C Evaluator Guide - Page 6
Software and Licensing Requirements, VMware vSphere, Guest Operating Systems
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VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide - Volume One For more detailed requirements, see the following table. HARDWARE ESXi Storage Network MINIMUM Three ESXi/ESX servers CPU - Two processors of 2GHz Memory - 6GB Network - 2x 1GB network adaptor One datastore (100GB) One VLAN for carrying virtual machine traffic; one VLAN for carrying management traffic WHAT'S USED IN THIS GUIDE Three ESXi servers (Cisco UCS 1.3.1) CPU - Two quad-core "Nehalem" processors of 2.6GHz Memory - 48GB Network - 4x 10GB network adaptor Three datastores (Fibre Channel - 100GB each) Separate VLANs for ESXi management, vMotion, and virtual machine traffic Software and Licensing Requirements This guide makes the following assumptions about your existing software infrastructure: VMware vSphere This volume of the VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide requires vSphere 5.0 and licensing for Essentials Plus. If the user intends to also complete the exercises in Volume Two of the VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide, a license for Enterprise Plus will be required. The vSphere 5.0 evaluation license available from the VMware evaluation portal provides Enterprise Plus functionality for 60 days and is the best choice for performing the vSphere 5.0 evaluations. Guest Operating Systems This volume of the VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide does not place any specific requirements on guest operating systems, other than ensuring that you can deploy running virtual machines. The user is free to deploy any VMware-supported operating system (OS) in the virtual machines. The VMware vSphere 5.0 Evaluation Guide, Volume Two, will require five or six virtual machines running Windows 2003 or Windows 2008. TECHNICAL WHITE PAPER / 6