September 8th, 2010 
Simon Seagrave 
I have had a few requests for the slide deck from readers and those of you attended the recent VMworld San Francisco session called “Building an Affordable vSphere Environment for a Lab or Small Business” which I co-presented along with Eric Siebert and Simon Gallagher. We had a lot of fun presenting the session, and as is usually the case could have easily done with another 30 minutes due the volume of content we tried to cover in the available 60 minutes, including Q&A.
So for those of you who couldn’t make the session or perhaps did attend but wanted to take a more detailed look here it is:
A few people have requested a downloadable version of the presentation – which you can download from here.
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My name is Simon Seagrave and I am a London (UK) based Senior Technology Consultant and vSpecialist working for EMC. 
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Hey Simon,
Thanks for sharing the slide deck!
Jim
No downloading of the slides?
Hi Simon great post and good luck with getting a slot at VMWorld.
I was just looking at building a Lab for my work for testing and training.
Do you consider the slide deck to be enough info to create a vTARDIS? Cool name by the way even if the acronym is shoe horned in
If I wanted to use a rack server to create the same system what would you recommend?
Out of interest you use an SSD, does VMWare support TRIM with these devices or will performance degrade over time? Or is this a non issue.
Hi,
Would it be possible to download the slides?
Thanks
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Hi Jarvis,
I have now included a downloadable pdf version of the presentation.
Cheers,
Si
Hi David,
(the other Simon here) – I wrote up much of the vTARDIS configuration on this post
http://vinf.net/2010/02/25/8-node-esxi-cluster-running-60-virtual-machines-all-running-from-a-single-500gbp-physical-server/
there are screenshots etc. there which should be enough to get you going
Simon S and I have a series of joint posts on this topic which we do (honestly) mean to fill out with details http://vinf.net/2009/12/17/vt-a-r-d-i-s-10-esxi-node-cluster-on-a-trolley-as-demonstrated-at-london-vmug/
cheers
Simon G (vinf.net)
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