Remote Lab Instructions for vSphere 6.7 Optimize, Upgrade, Troubleshoot Labs Only!
This page is for customers who purchased our 7-day / 14-day / 30 / 60-day vSphere 6.7 OUT remote lab rental offer that includes our independent study Lab Guide book. On this page, you will find everything you need to access your labs. If you ever need help accessing the labs, please review the Questions and Support section at the bottom of this page.
Step 1 - Connect to and Use our Remote Labs
The e-mail we send you that contains all of the information needed to access your remote lab environment and includes the following information:
- Your remote lab Windows Domain log in user name
- Your domain remote lab password
- The Fully Qualified Name and non-standard port you will use to MS Terminal Services / Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) access your server
Your lab configuration consists of the following components:
- One Windows Server 2008 R2 VM that you use for remote access. You will access this VM via either our remote lab Web Portal or via MS Terminal Services (with a connection string like pod__.esxlab.com:17001)
- Two virtual ESXi hosts that are accessible to you only from the (above) remote access VM.
Please carefully review the information you received by e-mail. This document provides your user name, password and MS Terminal Services machine IP address and port number (IP:port).
If you are unfamiliar with Microsoft Terminal Services / Microsoft Remote Desktop Services (RDS), go to Lab 0 in the Lab Guide book, read it carefully and follow the instructions. Lab 1 tells you how to:
- Launch the Terminal Services Client
- Connect to our servers using non-standard ports
- Configure your remote session's screen resolution and color depth for optimal use
- Log in to your remote lab access Windows 2008 R2 desktop
Step 2 - Run Through the Labs
Once you make it to this step... you are ready to go. Here are a couple of things to keep in mind when you work with our labs
*Very Important*
Your lab consists of two virtual ESXi hosts. Once you complete lab 2, your ESXi hosts will be powered on, configured and set up correctly for networking. Your ESXi hosts will be set up as follows:
- Hostname - Your first ESXi host will be called esxi1.esxlab.com. Your second ESXi host will be esxi2.esxlab.com
- IP Address - Your first ESXi host will have an IP address of 192.168.20.51. Your second ESXi host will have an IP address of 192.168.20.52
- Password - DO NOT deviate from recommended passwords. If you do, and you forget your password, we CANNOT recover your password for you
- vCenter Server - Your vCenter Server Appliance will have a FQDN of vcsa1.esxlab.com. The VM name will be vCSA 1. The IP address of your vCenter Appliance will be 192.168.20.121
Things to Keep In Mind While Doing The Labs
You were provisioned with:
- One remote access server (to be used as your vCenter server)
- Two servers to be used as ESXi hosts (the second server is pre-configured. There is no need to install/configure ESXi on it)
- Everything else you need to successfully complete all labs
- Please follow the instructions in our lab guide. Most customers report problems only after they deviate from the instructions in our lab guides.
Questions and Support
If you have any questions or need support, please open a trouble ticket by visiting helpdesk.esxlab.com. You will need to create an account before you can create a trouble ticket. Trouble tickets are answered within 4 hours but only between the hours of 9-5 Eastern time, Monday-Friday.
Sincerely
All the friendly techs here at ESXLab.com