Ok, this may be a really dumb question, but I have to get my arms wrapped around this so I understand. Like many others before me and many others after me, have built a nested lab following one of the many guides on the net. I picked, Building the Ultimate vSphere Lab – Part 1: The Story | Boerlowie's Blog. I have the lab built and have read the blue print and started to read the documents in the blue print. I also picked up two books, Official Cert Guide by Ferguson and Atkinson VCP 5 Study Guide. Both are very good books. I have started to flip through them and have noticed the activities to try things to further enhance your hands-on learning experience. Yes, this is what I wanted. As I flip throw the pages and look at the different activities, I am thinking, in the nested lab I built, how do I practice installing EXSI, vCenter as I have built those when I built my nested network. How does this work with my nested lab. How do I install EXSI and vCenter since it is already installed in the nested lab? Do I remove it and then re-install for practice?
Lab current layout:
Workstation 9 using WS 8 Hardware
Template for Windows 2008 R2
DC VM - with DNS, DHCP, AD
vCenter VM
ESXI VM
ESXI2 VM
Networking - with vMotion and Fault Tolerance
Desktop VM - I added this for few different reasons
So if the activities in the books I bought want me to install ESXI or vCenter, how do I do this within the nested lab? When I get to vMotion and Fault Tolerance, what then? Sorry for such simplistic questions to you experts but I am trying to understand this so I can move beyond the basic questions and really sink my teeth into the blueprint and practice lab. Any answers, advice, guidance, etc. is greatly appreciated.