Lab, it’s very important part of a training, because until you haven’t test your scenario on a lab you can’t see results, problems and you can’t find solutions. I believe experiences are result of tests, problems and again tests. We have two choices for testing VMware vSphere 5 environment: Virtual lab Physical lab Virtual lab: We can understand from this title which this lab must make on virtualization environment, so we can use VMware Workstation on Windows or VMware Fusion on Mac. We need to powerful hardware for making this lab, we need to 64bit Intel CPU with Intel VT technology or 64 bit AMD CPU with AMD-V technology, if your CPU isn’t Virtual Technology-capable, you may can’t power on 64bit virtual machines. VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion can run ESX/ESXi as a virtual machine and then we can deploy and run virtual machines on this VM and also for storage we can use Openfiler or FreeNAS as a virtual machine. If you want to test advanced features, may you have one or limitations: Minimum RAM: 4 GB Fault Tolerance (FT) won’t work. Performance may suffer. Physical lab: This type of lab will setup on physical platforms such as desktops, servers...
Windows Vista and above versions have a new technology called UAC( User Account Control), It aims to improve the security of Microsoft Windows by limiting application software to standard user privileges until an administrator authorizes an increase or elevation. In this way, only applications trusted by the user may receive administrative privileges, and malware should be kept from compromising the operating system. In other words, a user account may have administrator privileges assigned to it, but applications that the user runs do not inherit those privileges unless they are approved beforehand or the user explicitly authorizes it. Sudo for Windows (sudowin) allows authorized users to launch processes with elevated privileges using their own passphrase. Unlike the runas command, Sudo for Windows preserves the user’s profile and ownership of created objects. This software is very useful when we want to run a program on a standard user account and program released by an unknown publisher. We follow installation instruction together: 1. Download Sudowin from this link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/sudowin/files/latest/download 2. Login to windows by an administrator account and MSI package to start installation (Figures 1-4): Figure 1 Figure 2 Figure 3 Figure 4 3. After installation is complete,...
