rowdy280 Posted February 2, 2016 Report post Posted February 2, 2016 New Members 0 posts 0 warning points Sent Today, 12:07 PM Greetings from the US,I recently got involved in SCCM over a year ago, as a SysAD for SCCM and SCOM. I am about to follow your guide to the letter T. I have a simple request.I am setting everything up on windows server 2012 R2 via Hyper V with (400gb, Drive E) Dedidcated to my lab. and A spare D drive (136gB)In Hyper-V can you please let me know what VM I need to dedicate for specific Roles.and Hardware requirements (Ram, HD space, etc)]For example. 1.What specs do I need for my DNS/DHCP/AD server VM, and can I run all these roles on one vm.2.How about the SCCM server? what are the hardware specs.3.Did you install your SQL on the same vm server as the sccm? and why? What were the specs for your SQL server.4.The goal is to build a robust SCCM Lab with 5 windows XP, 5 windows 7, 5 Windows 10 at the bottom of my heirachy. 2 Primary servers, 2 secondary servers and a CAS. Even though I mgiht not fully use all of this, I just want to build them in my lab to learn as much as I can, you can let me know if this also advisable or maybe one Primary with several secondaries under them is good. I love SCCM 12, and I want to change my career role from an admin to jnr engineer in 6months. I want to be able to patch, OS deployments, migrations at Ease. PLease Help. THank you Very Much. Also can you email me your response to my email, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
anyweb Posted February 2, 2016 Report post Posted February 2, 2016 welcome ! 1.What specs do I need for my DNS/DHCP/AD server VM, and can I run all these roles on one vm. you can install them all on one server as I explain in this guide, i do all that on a gen 1 hyperV vm running server 2012r2 with only (gasp) 512mb ram, 127gb hdd.2.How about the SCCM server? what are the hardware specs. 2cpu's, 10GB ram, 127gb hdd3.Did you install your SQL on the same vm server as the sccm? and why? What were the specs for your SQL server. absolutely, explained how here 4.The goal is to build a robust SCCM Lab with 5 windows XP, 5 windows 7, 5 Windows 10 at the bottom of my heirachy. 2 Primary servers, 2 secondary servers and a CAS. Even though I mgiht not fully use all of this, I just want to build them in my lab to learn as much as I can, you can let me know if this also advisable or maybe one Primary with several secondaries under them is good. the only thing that's limiting you achieving that goal is hard disc space and RAM as long as the hyperv is a decent i7 CPU or better, i run all my labs on a now aging Dell E6530 with only 16GB ram (it's an i7). The key to the storage is you want fast SSD's otherwise your lab will be a slow and painful experience, try and go for a host with 32GB ram or more if you can and lots of SSD discs ! here's a look at my hyperV host on that laptop Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rowdy280 Posted February 2, 2016 Report post Posted February 2, 2016 Wow! this is Great! I will model it against this, and keep you posted as I move along My server is at 24gb ram and if I manage my storage well it seems I will be good. I will try to download all iso's tonite and get things started. Any repository that I can get all the ISO's for this lab...I dont' want to do the microsoft 60 days trial versions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
