Step by Step guide to build SCCM 2007 test lab - VMWare Workstation 8 - Server 2008

[petebuk]

All,

 

I seem to be having a hard to finiding a step by step guide to build a test environment from the ground up. I am looking to simulate a SCCM 2007 install in VMWare Workstation 8 on my desktop. I am a noob and need to know how to install server 2008 and setup everything in preperation for the SCCM install (AD, DHCP, SQL, IIS, etc) I see some good ones for the actual SCCM install, but not setting up the VM Servers to run them!

 

My desktop has plenty of disk space, 8GB RAM and WIndows 7 x64.

 

Any help or links to a good guide would be great!

 

Reagrds

 

petebuk

[anyweb]

if you could install windows 8 instead on that computer then you could use the built in HyperV role and then you'd have a really really cool lab (it would almost mirror what i use daily)

 

the difference here is that I have more than one lab and I change the content of them regularly, however the laptop I use for all the configuration manager 2012 sp1 stuff (windows 8 guides etc) is running Server 2012 with the HyperV role enabled and it has several virtual machines on it with only 8gb ram. The important thing on this laptop is that it has a 240gb OS drive on an SSD drive so it's fast, it also has a 240gb modular bay drive to store other vm's and that's ssd too. If I can do it then so can you,

 

Windows 7 can't run hyperv but Windows 8 can !

[Dineshtewatia]

Dear sir,

 

I also want the same thing, currently i have laptop pavalion g4 :- win 7 x64, 700gb hdd , 8 gb ram .

last year i made sccm 2007 environment on same laptop with vmware workstation 11 with follwoing configurations,

 

vm1 ..... win ser 2k8 r2 ......AD,DNS,DHCP ......... 1gb ram

vm2.......win ser 2k8 r2...... sccm 2k7,sql 2k8........3 gb ram

vm3.......win 7 _x86............ client .........................1 gb ram

vm4 ......win 7 _x86.............client...........................1 gb ram

 

But now i want to create sccm 2012 environment for learning purpose , so i need to know what is the best method for creating vm's on vmworkstation installed on my laptop HOST os win 7_x64 or will i create these vm's on hyper v with host OS windows 8.

Again i need to create vm's for sccm 2012 like , (AD,DNS,DHCP) , (SCCM 2012,SQL 2008) ect

 

Tell me the best method , so that i can allocate more RAM to server vm's & client vm's . I have total 8 gb ram.

near about 2gb is consumed by HOST OS . left is 6 gb ram which i have to use for vm's.

 

kindly help me in it .

[anyweb]

i'd go with windows 8.1 with update which can support hyperv Gen 2 vm's, or if you are adventurous use Windows 10 which can do the same thing,

also consider upgrading to 16gb of ram.

 

cheers

niall

[GarthMJ]

also consider upgrading to 16gb of ram.

 

I wouldn't say consider it, I would say it is a bare minimum to have 16GB of ram.

[Dineshtewatia]

Dear sir,

 

Can i install sccm 2012 on windows server 2008 r2.

[GarthMJ]

yes but I would do it. I would do Win2k12 at a minimum.