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Hi John<br />
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and welcome to Virtualization...<br />
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what resources do you have available, you can use Microsoft Windows 10 (Hyper-V), or VMware Workstation (paid app), Oracle Virtualbox (free) - take your pick ?
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Hi John

and welcome to Virtualization...

what resources do you have available, you can use Microsoft Windows 10 (Hyper-V), or VMware Workstation (paid app), Oracle Virtualbox (free) - take your pick ?

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Or if you're building straight up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)" rel="ugc"><u>LAMP Stacks</u></a> use Ubuntu + LXD, both of which are free.
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Or if you're building straight up LAMP Stacks [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LAMP_(software_bundle)] use Ubuntu + LXD, both of which are free.

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@phil. <br />
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Why RAID 0. From my POV that is a wreck in the waiting.
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@phil.

Why RAID 0. From my POV that is a wreck in the waiting.

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For a test environment you can use ESX for 60 days for free before lose features. <br />
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<a href="https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html" rel="ugc nofollow">https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html</a><br />
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If you have some older servers that have 64 or more RAM and dual processors minimum you can have some fun.
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For a test environment you can use ESX for 60 days for free before lose features.

https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html [https://www.vmware.com/try-vmware.html]

If you have some older servers that have 64 or more RAM and dual processors minimum you can have some fun.

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On a lab machine? Does it matter? The cost/benefit is resilience versus performance.<br />
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If there is a concern about keeping whatever is on the machine (a backup would be an obvious thing to do) then RAID 10 with four SSDs.
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On a lab machine? Does it matter? The cost/benefit is resilience versus performance.

If there is a concern about keeping whatever is on the machine (a backup would be an obvious thing to do) then RAID 10 with four SSDs.

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In an effort to learn about virtualization, I'd like to build a virtual machine; I'm specifically looking to build a Type I virtual desktop. What is the best specific software out there for that?<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Also, anyone know of any good tutorials on this subject. I thought I found some but turned out they focused more on the theory side of it. Anybody know of any resources that actually guide you, step-by-step, on how to install and configure it once you get the software?
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In an effort to learn about virtualization, I'd like to build a virtual machine; I'm specifically looking to build a Type I virtual desktop. What is the best specific software out there for that?
     Also, anyone know of any good tutorials on this subject. I thought I found some but turned out they focused more on the theory side of it. Anybody know of any resources that actually guide you, step-by-step, on how to install and configure it once you get the software?

Newbie virtualization questions

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

vSphere

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.