14. Building Your Own vSphere Lab

Building your own VMware vSphere lab environment for use at home or at work can be an exciting and rewarding experience. There are plenty of good reasons you may be considering building your own VMware vSphere lab—for example, you may be studying for your VMware VCP accreditation, you may need a highly flexible and scalable IT environment from which to perform tests on a particular application, or you may want to familiarize yourself with vSphere to enable you to be more efficient in your job. The lab will provide you with an excellent platform on which to learn more about vSphere, its features, and the underlying hardware on which it runs and operates.

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