+1 Using a SSD along with Client Hyper-V has worked nearly perfectly for me to run a fully functional ConfigMgr lab environment.
With your setup, just be advised that if you use a laptop you will want to make sure you turn off PXE before you connect your machine to any corporate networks. IT departments get really irritated when their clients start PXE booting to a rogue environment ☺ -Phil From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcum, John Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM LAB Preparation If you can deal with the UI in Win 8.1 that hyper-v is better suited for laptops too! If not I blogged how to do it with a laptop using 2008r2 From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kent, Mark Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:22 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [mssms] SCCM LAB Preparation I use my workstation as well. Optiplex 9020, core i7, 32 GB RAM, a pair of 256 GB SSD 's in RAID 0. I am running Windows 8.1 so I can natively run Hyper-V. Performance is phenomenal. Sent from my Windows Phone ________________________________ From: Ranvir singh<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: 9/23/2014 6:00 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [mssms] SCCM LAB Preparation Hi All, I have a 16GB Desktop. Which I want to make it SCCM2012 LAB. earlier I used to enable the Hyper-v (OR) installaing the Microsoft Virtual PC and inside that I used to create the Lab..... Where I feel inisde VM always will be slow Now I want to setup a Lab like HostMachine / Base Desktop I want to make it as SCCM Server and inside I want to enable the Hyper which I want to host the DC(Domain Controler).. Or vise versa where base machine is Domain and inside after enable ign the Hyper-V installaing the SCCM.. Suggest me which is the BEST option at the same time I want to get the internet on all machines(host machine and inside the Hyper -V machines) Any Idea How i can achive this kind of setup. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer. ________________________________ Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail is from a law firm and may be protected by the attorney-client or work product privileges. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by replying to this e-mail and then delete it from your computer.
