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Revised Virtualization and Storage Lab Guide

The document provides a practical guide for creating various types of disk volumes and virtualization setups on Windows and ESXi. It details steps for creating spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID 5 volumes, as well as instructions for setting up Type 2 virtualization with ESXi and installing KVM on Ubuntu. Each section outlines the necessary steps to complete the tasks effectively.

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Revised Virtualization and Storage Lab Guide

The document provides a practical guide for creating various types of disk volumes and virtualization setups on Windows and ESXi. It details steps for creating spanned, striped, mirrored, and RAID 5 volumes, as well as instructions for setting up Type 2 virtualization with ESXi and installing KVM on Ubuntu. Each section outlines the necessary steps to complete the tasks effectively.

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Virtualization and Storage Management - Practical Guide

1. Create Spanned Volume on Host Machine (Windows)


Step 1: Open 'Disk Management' (Right-click on 'This PC' > Manage > Disk Management).

Step 2: Ensure you have at least two unallocated disks.

Step 3: Right-click on one unallocated disk > New Spanned Volume.

Step 4: Add other disks to span > Assign drive letter > Format as NTFS.

Step 5: Finish the wizard to create the spanned volume.

2. Create Striped Volume (RAID 0) on Host Machine (Windows)


Step 1: Open 'Disk Management' on Windows.

Step 2: Ensure at least two unallocated disks are available.

Step 3: Right-click on one disk > New Striped Volume.

Step 4: Add disks, assign letter, format with NTFS.

Step 5: Finish the setup. Data will be written across both disks for speed.

3. Create Mirrored Volume (RAID 1) on Host Machine (Windows)


Step 1: Go to 'Disk Management'.

Step 2: Ensure two dynamic disks are available.

Step 3: Right-click on one > New Mirrored Volume.

Step 4: Select the second disk > Assign drive letter and format.

Step 5: Complete setup. Both disks will mirror the same data.

4. Create RAID 5 Volume on Host Machine (Windows)


Step 1: Open Disk Management and ensure at least 3 unallocated dynamic disks.

Step 2: Right-click on one > New RAID-5 Volume.

Step 3: Add the other disks > Assign drive letter and format.

Step 4: Follow wizard to complete RAID 5 setup with parity.

Note: This feature is only available on Windows Server editions.


5. Create Type 2 Virtualization in ESXi 6.5
Type 2 virtualization means running a hypervisor on top of a host OS (like VMware Workstation).

ESXi is usually Type 1, but to simulate Type 2:

Step 1: Install VMware Workstation.

Step 2: Download ESXi 6.5 ISO.

Step 3: Create new VM > Attach ESXi ISO > Start installation.

Step 4: Complete setup; now ESXi is running as a guest (nested hypervisor).

6. Create Nested Virtual Machine in ESXi


Step 1: Log into ESXi via browser.

Step 2: Upload guest OS ISO to datastore.

Step 3: Create new VM > Assign CPU, RAM, Disk.

Step 4: Set ISO as CD drive.

Step 5: Before starting, enable CPU virtualization in VM settings.

Step 6: Power on and install OS as usual.

7. Install KVM in Ubuntu


Step 1: Verify CPU virtualization support:

egrep -c '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo

Step 2: Install KVM and tools:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon-system libvirt-clients bridge-utils virt-manager

Step 3: Add user to libvirt group:

sudo adduser `id -un` libvirt

Step 4: Launch Virtual Machine Manager (GUI):

virt-manager

Step 5: Create and manage VMs using KVM.

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