Sunday, April 5, 2020

vSphere 7 Lab on a Dell Poweredge R820

With the Shelter in Place Order, I took the opportunity to fire up the ol' Home Lab.   Nothing fancy,  I affectionately call it my "Ghetto Lab"



The timing is perfect,  I'm stuck at home and vSphere 7 just went GA this week.  I'm taking this opportunity to do some testing and play with the latest release of vSphere from VMware. 

The core of my lab consists of a pair of Dell PowerEdge R820s.   Sadly, this model hasn't been officially supported by VMware since ESXi 6.5.  Fortunately for me, it runs fine in my lab for testing!  Below are the server specs for those who would also like to test on older hardware.

Server Specs:
Dell PowerEdge R820
Intel Xeon E5 - 4620
Broadcom PERC H710
Qlogic BCM57800 1GB Ethernet Adapter

Stay positive, use this time to learn and better yourself.  Happy Testing!