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Lab design and prerequisites

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Lab design and prerequisites

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- [Instructor] In this video, we are going to talk about our Lab Design and what are the prerequisites to set up that lab. Now in a corporate world or in an ideal world, if you are working in an IT firm or if you're working in an IT department of any company, all you have to do is find a computer hardware which is bare metal and with no operating system. Minimum requirement of Ram four gig, two CPU, and disc of at least 200 gig. Then what you will do, you will install the virtualization hypervisor. In VMware it is called ESXi and the version you can install, seven which is the most recent latest one at this time. For that hypervisor, the requirement is the Ram should be at least four gig, at least two CPU, the disc requirement is at least 200 gig. Now please note up to 138 gig that is given to the hypervisor is dedicated for ESXi only. You cannot use the entire 200 gig. If you give it to the virtual hypervisor, you…

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