What you need for this book
If you were to follow along with each chapter by practicing the tasks in a lab, then you would need two ESXi hosts, two vCenter Servers, two SRM instances, and two storage array nodes with replication configured between them. This might sound like a lot of hardware, but all you need is a VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion and a Virtual Storage Appliance such as HP Store Virtual (LeftHand networks). You could get a trial license for HP Store Virtual by registering for one at HP's website. For the suggested lab architecture the ESXi hosts, vCenter Servers, vSphere Replication Appliances, SRM Servers, and the storage nodes will be virtual machines that are hosted using the VMware Workstation/Fusion.
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