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Building an NSX Lab Environment at Home on a Budget

by Keith Barker - The OG of IT · 25 videos

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1 Setting Up an NSX Lab Environment at Home on a Budget | NSX Home Lab Part 1 8:19 2024-02-13
2 How to Reset the BIOS and iDRAC on a Dell R630 Server | NSX Home Lab Part 2 8:45 2024-02-15
3 How to Update the BIOS and Prep a Virtual Drive on a Dell R630 Server | NSX Home Lab Part 3 9:12 2024-02-15
4 How to Install ESXi on a Dell R630 Server | NSX Home Lab Part 4 20:18 2024-02-20
5 Deploying vCenter on a Parent Physical Host | NSX Home Lab Part 5 13:06 2024-02-20
6 How to Configure vCenter to Auto Start | NSX Home Lab Part 6 8:08 2024-02-20
7 Installing a Dell R630 Server on a Server Rack | NSX Home Lab Part 7 14:20 2024-02-20
8 How to Create a Distributed Switch Using vCenter | NSX Home Lab Part 8 11:52 2024-02-20
9 How to Deploy ESXi Hosts as VMs | NSX Home Lab Part 9 17:06 2024-02-20
10 How to Install ESXi and Set Up Local Datastores | NSX Home Lab Part 10 12:08 2024-02-20
11 How to Deploy a Nested vCenter Server | NSX Home Lab Part 11 11:50 2024-02-20
12 Updating ESXI and vCenter + Nested vMotion Setup | NSX Home Lab Part 12 29:38 2024-02-20
13 How to Deploy NSX Manager and Move a vCenter VM | NSX Home Lab Part 13 18:53 2024-02-20
14 Using Snapshots for a Nested Lab | NSX Home Lab Part 14 12:06 2024-02-20
15 How to Configure NSX to Use vCenter | NSX Home Lab Part 15 18:10 2024-02-20
16 How to Add Host Transport Nodes | NSX Home Lab Part 16 31:48 2024-02-20
17 How to Create and Use an NSX Overlay Segment | NSX Home Lab Part 17 20:17 2024-02-20
18 How to Use the NSX Distributed Firewall | NSX Home Lab Part 18 26:43 2024-02-20
19 Distributed Routing Concepts | NSX Home Lab Part 19 10:09 2024-02-20
20 Deploy a DR (Distributed Router) | NSX Home Lab Part 20 17:16 2024-02-20
21 How to Deploy Edge Transport Nodes | NSX Home Lab Part 21 18:33 2024-02-20
22 How to Use Edge Nodes for DHCP | NSX Home Lab Part 22 17:20 2024-02-20
23 How to Use Multiple Gateways | NSX Home Lab Part 23 21:59 2024-02-20
24 How to Connect an NSX Network to the Internet | NSX Home Lab Part 24 22:14 2024-02-20
25 How to do a Graceful Shutdown of a Nested Lab and Quieting Server Fans | NSX Home Lab Part 25 18:21 2024-02-20
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