Version 3.0 released July 2018

Make sure to read the deployment guide. Please submit bug reports on our Sub-Reddit

Deployment Guide PDF – Read this first

Each of these files is approximately 2GB in size

Nested AutoLab on Workstation or Fusion

Nested AutoLab on ESXi stand alone or vSphere with DRS

Nested AutoLab on vSphere with HA but without DRS

This lab builder kit is designed to produce a nested vSphere 6.7 to 4.1 lab environment with the minimum effort. Prebuilt Open Source VMs and the shell of other VMs are provided along with automation for the installation of operating systems and applications into these VMs. The lab build was originally created to aid study towards VCP5 certification however it has many other possible uses.

Hardware Requirements

The hardware requirements for the lab are moderate. Hopefully, you won’t need to buy a new computer, although you may need to do some upgrades. If you can dedicate a computer to the role then the lab runs extremely well under ESXi.

Hardware Minimum Great Choice Used to build the lab CPU Dual Core, 64Bit Quad Core, i7 i7 Quad Core RAM 24GB How much can you afford? 32GB Hard Disk 120GB free space 200GB SSD free space 480 GB SSD Operating System 64 Bit ESXi 6.7 Windows 7 64Bit Virtualization Software VMware Player (untested) ESXi 6.7 VMware Workstation 10

Additional software

The AutoLab kit contains open source software and so can be freely redistributed. The full lab requires licensed software components some of which are quite large, vSphere and Windows installers. Download the deployment guide for directions to download the other software.