Now that VCSA (VMware vCenter Server Appliance) has come so far in scale and capabilities, and finally simple to deploy on a home network, it's likely better suited for your home lab use too. Get you started by getting you past bumps in the road that have steered others off course. The Windows-based vCenter Server download (vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1 Installation Package) that I'm not covering here is considerably more complex and time consuming to set up (you need to provide your own database, like SQL Server), and is overkill for most home labs. This is a home-lab-centric article, with narrow scope. This article gives you the exact URLs and details, to help ANYBODY be absolutely sure they got all the right bits and pieces, before you dive in and Build your own VMware vSphere 5.5 Datacenter with ESXi and VCSA, and article I plan to refresh with Update 1 soon. Navigating VMware's site can be a bit tricky, especially when you consider the presentation of the entire site for folks that have some sort of valid license looks quite different than the product evaluation portal. To get started with your own vSphere 5.5 home lab, you'll find that there's just 3 files needed. See also Problems downloading VMware vSphere VMware vCenter Server 5.5 Update 1c Appliance, and a way to download 1b (that can be updated to 1c). Posted by Paul Braren on (updated on Aug 4 2014) in
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