Month: April 2023

VMware Workstation 17 Nested Home Lab Part 4A/B

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In Part 4A, I cover installing Windows 2022 Server, setting up AD, and DNS. Part B we complete the installation of Windows 2022 Server services (NTP, DHCP, RAS) and validate them. Towards the end of the video I make some adjustments to the DNS server allowing it to work properly.

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VMware Workstation 17 Nested Home Lab Part 3

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In Part 3, I go over some OS Clean Up items, reviewing our network plan, and setting up Workstation 17 for the networks we’ll need. As motioned in the video check out  @VMwareTAMLab  for more information around alternative Windows AD/DS services.

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VMware Workstation 17 Nested Home Lab Part 2

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In Part 2, I go into a physical hardware overview, show how to enable VT-X and VT-D, installation of Windows 11 (which includes a trick to disable the TPM requirement), install of Workstation 17, and review common issues when Hyper V is enabled. At the end of this video #windows11 and #workstation 17 are installed and operational. Coming up in Part 3 we’ll build out or Workstations Networks, start building the Windows 2022 server with AD, DNS, RAS, DHCP, and other services.

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VMware Workstation 17 Nested Home Lab Part 1

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In Part 1, I go into some of the Goals, Requirements, and a bit of planning around developing your own Nested Workstation environment by using mine an an example deployment.

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