![]() This leaves a little head room for expansion or if I need to upgrade vRA. I ended up with this list and as you can see I tried to keep the memory usage at 80% max. Lets have a look at how the VM’s need to be split across the two systems. The total memory available in my two systems is 48 Gb, however this is split over the Intel NUC (16 Gb) and the Asrock DeskMini (32 Gb). As you can see the vCenter appliance is running in the prod cluster where the two physical ESXi hosts are located. This is an overview of how things are going to be set up. The first will hold my two physical ESXi hosts, the second will hold two nested ESXi hosts. ![]() One to run my infrastructure components and another to run workloads deployed by vRealize Automation. The idea is to have two separate environments. When looking into NSX, a colleague recommended a site that talks about slimming down NSX which I used to do my own slimming down.Īfter taking all of this in consideration I ended up with the following list. For vRA I settled on 8 and 2 Gb respectively. In the case of vRA and IaaS I did some research by reading other peoples blogs and forums. I ended up with using 8 Gb instead of the default 10 for a tiny deployment. For vCenter I had already done this by trial and error. This is not supported by VMware but most of the components run just fine when you take some memory away from them. To fit everything in my home lab, where memory is the most constraint, I had to slim down some of the appliances to home lab size. In the end I also need some resources available to act as fabric for my vRealize Automation installation. Looking at my hardware and the default requirements quickly tells me things are nog going to fit. Another thing to look at is how some of the appliances can be slimmed down on their memory requirements. How will these work together to provide a smoothly running environment. I’ll have to look at the two different servers and their resources. How can I use the hardware as efficiently as possible and run all the software components I want. It is now time to look at the software side of the house. ![]() ![]() After ordering and setting up the new hardware for my home lab in part 1 of this blog post. ![]()
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