Getting Started
The Spring 23 running of this course is well underway.
To get started in this course you need to install esxi, vcenter8 and active directory. You can find some instructions on all of these in the topical documentation on this website. We will pickup up once your base network has been created.
In the formal course, each student has a supermicro super server with 64GiB of RAM and at least one SSD. The videos will reference infrastructure specific to the classroom environment. A couple things you will want to change if you are following along at home.
Our production network is 192.168.7.0/24, yours will likely be something else.
We use IPMI to install ESXi and you don't have to
We hide our domain controller and vcenter on a virtual network to save IP space on our classroom network. You might want to do something else.
You will need to find a mechanism to serve up your own iso images. If using the technique described in the course, this python web server works very well.
cd /wherevertheheckyourisosare
python3 -m http.server