Welcome to the lab environment
Throughout the practical stages of this book, you have the opportunity to follow the tasks and steps that are being described using the example lab environment. If you prefer, you can use these guides to set up your own environment, whether that's for a proof of concept, pilot, or production deployment.
What you need for the example lab
We are going to start with the management block infrastructure. The example lab management block consists of the following infrastructure components:
2 x ESXi host servers running vSphere 6.0 U1
Tintri T820 VMaware hybrid storage array
11 x Windows Server 2012 R2 Enterprise Edition virtual machines for the following roles, which we will configure throughout this chapter:
Domain controller (
dc.pvolab.com)Connection Server (
hzn7-cs1.pvolab.com)Security Server (
hzn7-ss1.pvolab.com)Replica Server (
hzn7-cs2.pvolab.com)Connection Server for second site CPA (
hzn7-cs1b)View Composer (
hzn7-cmp.pvolab.com)Enrollment Server (
hzn7-enroll.pvolab...
