What you need for this book
You will learn about the software requirements for every vSphere component covered in this book in their respective chapters, but to start with a basic lab setup, you will need at least two ESXi hosts, a vCenter Server instance, a Domain Controller, a DHCP server, a DNS server, and a TFTP Server. For learning purposes, you don't really need to run ESXi on physical machines.
You can use VMware Workstation or VMware Fusion to set up a hosted lab on your PC or Mac, provided the machine has adequate compute and storage capacity.
For shared storage, you can use any of the following free virtual storage applications:
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