VCP4

Other Resources

• VMware VCP Forum
• VCP4 Blueprint
• vSphere Documentation

Notes

Section 1 – Plan, Install and Upgrade VMware ESX/ESXi

Minimum Hardware Requirements

• 64bit CPU (AMD Opteron, Intel Xenon [inc Nahalem])
  • CPU Virtualisation features required to support 64bit VM's
• 2GB RAM
• 1+ NIC
• SCSI, Fibre Channel or Internal RAID controller
• LUN, SAS or SATA (SATA must be connected through a SAS controller)

Notes

• ESX's hardware clock should be set to UTC
• IPv6 not supported during installation

Section 4 – Install and Configure vCenter Server

• Minimum Requirements
  • 2x CPU's (2GHz)
  • 3GB RAM
  • 2GB disk
  • Microsoft SQL2005 Express

Scale	VC	CPU	Memory
50 ESXs, 250 VMs	32 bit	2	4 GB
200 ESXs, 2000 VMs	64 bit	4	4 GB
300 ESXs, 3000 VMs	64 bit	4	8 GB