Ells (11/5/2012)

---

I too am on the hunt for hardware for this. My old laptop is XP. Looking at a laptop with Windows 8 and 8 Gig RAM. I think Hyper V comes with Windows 8 not sure if it all versions. Hoping this will be good enough to get me going.

E.

netmikem (5/11/2013)

---

I think I understand the idea of the parent/child differing disks configuration for SQL-A, SQL-B, SQL-C and SQL-D (although I have one big question which I ask below) but what about the DC and SQL-Core VMs? Is the idea that the DC and SQL-Core VMs do not need to be a part of this parent/child differing disks arrangement? Instead, these are set up as 'regular' VMs?

Koen suggests installing SQL Server on the parent virtual disk first. Does this mean we don't follow the install instructions in Chapter 1 of the training kit then, which seem to suggest we do the SQL install separately on each of SQL-A, SQL-B, etc and use this Kim_Ackers domain account (also meaning the DC needs to be in place first).

netmikem (5/18/2013)

---

I've made quite a bit of progress (after many hours) and have learned much in the process.

I now have the lab environment setup except that my VMs have no internet access. I've played around quite a bit and it seems once I use static IPs for my VMs, as instructed in the training kit, I lose internet access. However, if I use DHCP, I can access the internet from the VMs.

When using static IPs (via the netsh interface command), I notice there is no default gateway given but I'm not sure that is the issue.

I think I can press on without internet access but I think it would be preferable if it was available on each VM.

If anybody has faced these issues also and resolved them, I'd like to hear how you solved them!