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Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization sizing guide
Setting up the Login VSI test bed
We created the remaining Login VSI testbed using launcher guests on VMware vSphere 5 using the following
steps. We refer to the vSphere server as the infrastructure server.
Setting up a guest to host Microsoft Windows Active Directory® server (DC1)
1. Connect to the infrastructure server via the VMware vSphere client.
2. Log in as root to the infrastructure server.
3. In the vSphere client, connect to the vCenter™ Server, and browse to the ESXi host.
4. Click the Virtual Machines tab.
5. Right-click, and choose New Virtual Machine.
6. Choose Custom, and click Next.
7. Assign the name DC1 to the virtual machine, and click Next.
8. Select infrastructure for the host, and click Next.
9. Select your storage, and click Next.
10. Choose Virtual Machine Version 8, and click Next.
11. Choose Windows, choose Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit), and click Next.
12. For CPUs, select one virtual processor socket, and two cores per virtual socket, and click Next.
13. Choose 4 GB RAM, and click Next.
14. Click 1 for the number of NICs, select VMXNET3, connect to the VDI-NET network, and click Next.
15. Leave the default virtual storage controller, and click Next.
16. Choose to create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
17. Make the OS virtual disk size 40 GB, choose thick-provisioned lazy zeroed, specify the OS datastore on the
storage, and click Next.
18. Keep the default virtual device node (0:0), and click Next.
19. Click Finish.
20. Right-click the guest, and choose Edit Settings.
21. On the Hardware tab, click Add…
22. Click Hard Disk, and click Next.
23. Click Create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
24. Specify 15 GB for the virtual disk size, choose thin provisioning, and specify your storage.
25. Choose SCSI (0:1) for the device node, and click Next.
26. On the Hardware tab, click Add…
27. Click Create a new virtual disk, and click Next.
28. Specify 50 GB for the virtual disk size, choose thin provisioning, and specify your storage.
29. Choose SCSI (0:2) for the device node, and click Next.
30. Click Finish, and click OK.
31. Click the Resources tab, and click Memory.
32. Select reserve all guest memory, and click OK.
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