How to use PC to build a comprehensive experimental environment of VMware Workstation Chapter

Whether you're learning Windows or Linux, or learning about applications on these systems, we need one or more servers. But a server is tens of thousands of dollars, as students are learning or individuals simply unable to buy. Besides, some experiments require more than one server. Coupled with power supply and other factors, it is really impossible for individuals to buy servers to do experiments. But it is difficult to combine knowledge without experimentation, and practice is the only standard to test truth. Therefore, today we talk about how to simulate multiple servers, PCs through a PC, and analog switches, routers, firewalls, AAA servers, finally the switch, routers, firewalls, servers connected together to build a comprehensive experimental environment, complete the experimental environment we need. In this way, basically you just have a high-performance PC, you can simulate servers, PCS, switches, routers, firewalls, IP phones, IPPBX, almost 80 of the experiment can be completed.

The author uses a ThinkPad X230 notebook, the configuration is as follows (reader can do reference):

Cpu:intel I5 3210

Memory: 16GB

HDD: 256GB SSD

Os:windows 7 64-bit

Recommended hardware configuration:

1. Be sure to use Intel's CPU, recommend I5 above, and support virtualization technologies such as Intel VT, be sure to turn on

2. Memory is large enough to recommend more than 8GB of memory, preferably 16G or larger

3. Hard drive recommendation is SSD, faster, not SSD and no relationship

4. The OS must be 64-bit, otherwise large memory is not supported.

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Introduction to the experimental environment:

1. Use VMware workstaion to simulate servers and user PCs, install Windows, Linux and other operating systems;

2. Dynamips to emulate Cisco routers and switches;

3. Install the Cisco ASA Firewall simulator with VMware workstation to simulate firewalls;

4. Communication is achieved by bridging the network card on the workstation to the network card of the physical machine.
   

Software Introduction

Introduction to Vmware workstation:

VMware Workstation is a VMware-owned software for installing virtual machines on a PC. So what is a virtual machine? We know that our computer is composed of CPU, memory, hard disk and other hardware, and each computer can only run one operating system, such as your computer boot is Windows 7, it is impossible to switch to Windows XP immediately, even if you install a dual system, you need to restart to be able to switch. Our operating system, which runs directly on hardware, is called a physical machine, also known as a "host." While the virtual machine is relative to the physical machine, we can install Virtual machine software (Vmware workstation, etc.) on the installation of a number of virtual machines, each VM has a separate virtual CPU, memory, hard disk, sound card, network card, multiple virtual machine can run at the same time. This so-called virtual machine software according to the use of the scene to divide, can be divided into the workstation version and server version, workstation version is installed on an operating system, the common VMware Workstaton, virtual PC, virtual BOX, the server version is installed directly on the hardware, Common with VMware Exsi, XenServer. Today we are going to install virtual machines through VMware Workstatioin, simulating servers and PCs.

This article reads as follows:

All of the following are explained by installing a Windows 2003 server (similar to other operating systems, 2003 is relatively small, so the author uses 2003)

1. Installation of Vmware Workstation and example of Windows 2003 Server installation

2. Establishment of the Microsoft Ring-plus Interface (Loopback) network card

3. Introduction to the Vmware workstation NIC mode

4. Installation and use of Vmware tools

5. Vmware Snapshot (Snapshot) feature

6. Vmware Cloning capabilities

7. Import and export an OVA image

8. Experiment: Two servers ping network traffic
   

1. Installation of Vmware workstation

Get the Software installation package, all the way down to complete the installation of workstation, so easily, so do not introduce. Note that after the installation is completed will be more than two network cards, Vmnet1 and Vmnet8, the role of two network cards are described below.

2. Establishment of the Microsoft Loopback Interface (Loopback) network card

Microsoft Loopback interface is a virtual network card, we set up its purpose is to bridge the VMware Network card to the loopback interface at a later stage, to achieve network communication between multiple devices.

3.Vmware Workstation Network Card mode introduction (Focus \ Difficulty)

About the VMware Workstaton network card mode, has always been a beginner is not particularly easy to understand the place, I have just learned the time has been a toss-up to understand. If not fully understood here, there will be many places prone to problems at a later stage.

Installation and use of 4.Vmware tools

VMware Tools is a tool for VMware, after installing the operating system

5.Vmware Snapshot (Snapshot) feature

6.Vmware cloning function

7. Import and export an OVA image

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How to use PC to build a comprehensive experimental environment of VMware Workstation Chapter