Software components and licensing

Now, when you have chosen your ideal hardware platform, you need to think about which software licenses you need in order to install and run the environment successfully.

There are many components that you need to license, especially if you want to build everything from scratch. In some cases, cloud-based solutions do not need to be licensed, because the licenses are already included in the service price.

Let's cover the most common software components that you might need to use in your lab.

VMware licensing

Let's start with VMware itself. Most products can be tested for free with the evaluation version through the Eval center at the following link: https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware...