{"id":12327,"date":"2012-04-12T18:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12327"},"modified":"2012-04-12T18:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T17:20:00","slug":"how-im-building-our-demo-lab-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=12327","title":{"rendered":"How I\u2019m Building Our Demo Lab Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve talked about our lab in the past and I\u2019ve recorded\/shown a few demos from it.&#160; It\u2019s one thing to build a demo, but it\u2019s a whole other thing to build a lab environment, where I need to be able to build lots of different demos for W2008 R2 (current support for System Center 2012), Windows Server 8 Hyper-V, OS deployment, and maybe even other things.&#160; Not only do I want to do demos, but I also want to learn for myself, and be able to use it to teach techies from our customer accounts.&#160; So that means I need something that I can wipe and <em>quickly<\/em> rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>WDS, MDT, or ConfigMgr were one option.&#160; Yes, but this is a lab, and I want as few dependencies as possible.&#160; And I want to isolate the physical <em>lab<\/em> environment from the <em>demo<\/em> environment.&#160; Here\u2019s how I\u2019m doing it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left-width: 0px; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/image_thumb2.png\" width=\"504\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve installed Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Datacenter as the standard OS on the lab hardware.&#160; Why not Windows Server 8 beta?&#160; I want an RTM supported environment as the basis of everything for reliability.&#160; This doesn\u2019t prevent Windows Server 8 Beta from being deployed, as you\u2019ll see soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>Lab-DC1 is a physical machine \u2013 it\u2019s actually a HP 8200 Elite Microtower PC with some extra drives.&#160; It is the AD DC (forest called lab.internal) for the lab environment and provides DHCP for the network.&#160; I happen to use a remote control product so I can get to it easily \u2013 the ADSL we have in the lab doesn\u2019t allow inbound HTTPS for RDS Gateway <img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-sadsmile\" alt=\"Sad smile\" src=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/wlEmoticon-sadsmile.png\" \/>&#160; This DC role is intended only for the lab environment.&#160; For demos, I\u2019ve enabled Hyper-V on this machine (not supported), and I\u2019ll run a virtual DC for the demos that I build with a forest called demo.internal (nothing to do with lab.internal).<\/p>\n<p>Lab-Storage1 is a HP DL370 G7 with 2 * 300GB drives, 12 * 2TB drives, and 16 GB RAM.&#160; This box serves a few purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It hosts the library share with all the ISOs, tools, scripts, and so forth. <\/li>\n<li>Hyper-V is enabled and this allows me to run a HP P4000 virtual SAN appliance (VSA) for an iSCSI SAN that I can use for clustering and backup stuff. <\/li>\n<li>I have additional capacity to create storage VMs for demos, e.g. a scale out file server for SMB Direct (SMB 2.2) demos <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The we get on to Lab-Host1 and Lab-Host2.&#160; As the names suggest, these are intended to be Hyper-V hosts.&#160; I\u2019ve installed Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 on these machines, but it\u2019s not configured with Hyper-V.&#160; It\u2019s literally an OS with network access.&#160; It\u2019s enough for me to copy a VHD from the storage server.&#160; Here\u2019s what I\u2019ve done:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There\u2019s a folder called C:VHD on Lab-Host1 and Lab-Host2.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m enabling boot-from-VHD for the two hosts from C:VHDboot.vhd \u2013 pay attention to the <em>bcdedit<\/em> commands in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyper-v.nu\/archives\/hvredevoort\/2011\/09\/how-to-boot-from-vhd-with-windows-8-developer-preview\" target=\"_blank\">post<\/a> by Hans Vredevoort.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019m using <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.msdn.microsoft.com\/wim2vhd\" target=\"_blank\">Wim2VHD<\/a> to create VHD files from the Windows Server ISO files.<\/li>\n<li>I can copy any VHD to the C:VHD folder on the two hosts, and rename it to boot.vhd. <\/li>\n<li>I can then reboot the physical host to the OS in boot.vhd and configure it as required.&#160; Maybe I create a template from it, generalize it, and store it back on the library. <\/li>\n<li>The OS in boot.vhd can be configure as a Hyper-V host, clustered if required, and connected to the VSA iSCSI SAN. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Building a new demo now is a matter of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Replace virtual DC on Lab-DC1 and configure it as required. <\/li>\n<li>Provision storage on the iSCSI SAN as required. <\/li>\n<li>Deploy any virtual file servers if required, and configure them. <\/li>\n<li>Replace the boot.vhd on the 2 hosts with one from the library.&#160; Boot it up and configure as required. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Basically, I get whole new OS\u2019s by just copying VHD files about the network, with hosts and storage primarily using 10 GbE.<\/p>\n<p>If I was working with just a single VHD all of the time, then I\u2019d check out Mark Minasi\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steadierstate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steadier State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; 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