eDirectory 8.8 SP8 Install Guidance

This depends: If you already have an eDirectory tree in your organization ask your eDirectory manager to provide details about where to install your server in the tree, and give you credentials to login to the tree and install the server.

If you are creating your first tree you can pretty much make up the tree yourself. You could follow the documentation on Desiging an eDirectory tree:
https://www.netiq.com/documentation/edir88/edir88/data/a2iiidp.html

The Tree name can be anything, so QALAB is fine. If later you want to extend the usage of your tree you may want to use a more general name, or make the QALAB tree your test environment and create a new tree with a new server for your production environment
Usually the top organization (O) in your tree has the name of your company (so O=mycompany), and below that you could / should create an Organizational Unit (OU) named Servers.

So in your example the Server context would be OU=Servers.O=mycompany, or Servers.mycompany (O and OU isn't always necessary to specify).
If you want to have your users in a separate context you could create a context OU=Users.O=mycompany, but you could also put your admin user in O=mycompany.

Thank you for your help. I still don't get it, unfortunately. This test environment is the only Novell/NetIQ environment and I am setting it up on VMWARE for testing. If you can just help me with what to put in the following fields to make this work, I would appreciate it:

TREE NAME:
NEW SERVER OBJECT CONTEXT:
ADMIN NAME:
ADMIN CONTEXT:

Currently, as in the screen shot example, the tree name is QALAB, the New Server Object Context is GRPWISE-NDS. My server is actually named GRPWISE, but eDirectory added the -NDS to the name. My Admin Context is O=RESEARCH.

Thank you,