Did you know that it is possible to run multiple ESX servers, a Virtual Center server, a NAS appliance all on a laptop? Even more cool is that VMotion will work to live migrate VMs between the two ESX servers, which by the way are running on a single laptop. It is important to note that none of this is supported, but it does give you a really cool ESX testing environment—on your laptop!

The complete details about how to get this installed and running were contributed to the TechCenter on a new wiki page: Virtual Infrastructure Test Environment. Jose Maria from Dell in Europe uses this configuration to show how VMware ESX Server and VirtualCenter work together. He gets lots of questions about how he did it, so he put together this document to explain. He's included lots of screen shots, which makes it easy to follow.

The basic configuration that he uses is a Dell Latitude D630 with 4 GB of RAM running VMware Workstation.

Todd