Running XenServer 5.6 on VMware Workstation 7.1.x

From http://vstorage.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/running-xenserver-5-6-on-vmware-workstation/:

With XenServer 5.6 just released, it was time to fire it up inside my virtual lab at home.

VMware Workstation 7.1 makes a great performing platform for a virtual XenServer test lab.

In my case, I have two virtual XenServer 5.6 instances in a pool and a virtual iSCSI SAN appliance (latest 8.5 HP P4000 VSA) running on top of Workstation 7.1 (on Windows 7 x64).

This setup gives me shared storage for my XenServer pool and full live migration of VM’s (XenMotion)

To get this up and running is quite simple:

Your host PC on which you run VMware Workstation needs a bit of grunt – but that comes cheap these days.

A quad core Intel or six core Phenom CPU, 8GB of RAM and one or two cheap 40GB Intel V series SSD would give you enough cores, memory and IOPS for quite a large virtual home lab.

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