Part 1: HOW TO: Automate and Deploy a VMware vSphere 8.0 and vSAN 8 Lab using a PowerCLI script
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In 2014, I wrote an article HOW TO: Set up a lab environment for vSAN using VMware Workstation using AutoLab, Sadly AutoLab has not been maintained and updated since 2018, to take advantages of later versions of VMware vSphere. The latest supported version was 6.7.
VMware vSphere 6.7 went End of Life on 15th October 2022, however on 11th October 2022 VMware released VMware vSphere 8.0.
What’s New
This release of VMware vSphere 8.0 includes VMware ESXi 8.0 and VMware vCenter Server 8.0. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release in the vSphere 8 Technical Overview Blog.
Well known blogger William Lam and fellow VMware vExpert has released a PowerCLI script – Automated vSphere & vSAN 8 Lab Deployment Script
In this video I show you how to use the script, and also had to modify the nested ESXi hosts so networking is operating correctly, which without the script would fail. This video shows you how to create a test lab environment to test and demonstrate VMware vSAN 8.0, and to take it for a test drive. It’s not recommended that this lab be used in production environment.
I do need to follow up with William, and open some PR on Github to report several issues I have encountered with the script.
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