Lab Kit Types
| All In One Lab Server Kit | Require only one Middle Spec Server Windows Active Directory, DHCP Server, DNS Server, etc + Hyper-V are to be installed into single machine for testing the various thing in limited resources. |
| Standard Lab Server Kit | This uses 3 basic Spec Servers. 1st server is AD and Core Platform Service Server 2nd Server is Storage server for using the Storage space from Hyper-V machine/Clustered Hyper-V machines flexibly. 3rd machine is Hyper-V machine. Additional network equipment is required for connecting machines for Shared Storage Network. This kit is expandable and scalable so that you can consume resources more and test everything easily. To learn the Failover Cluster technology, Hyper-V, RDS and etc, we recommend you to add one more Hyper-V node. |
For Hardware recommendation details, see Lab Kit Hardware Guide – Avalon Lab Service Portal (ildana-tech.net)
Software Requirements
- If you own your Lab kit by your-self, you need to get the valid Windows OS licenses and so on for using the various version of Windows OSs.
- Avalon lab team strongly recommend the Visual Studio Pro Subscription.
- It costs $1,199.00 per Year.
- Any Windows Server/Client OS licenses are bundled (Basically, 5 Retail Licenses per Windows are available.)
- SQL and etc are available.
- Visual Studio Professional IDE is bundled.
- TS Licenses are bundled per OS version.
- Many benefit is available in addition.
Internet Services
- Avalon Lab team strongly recommend you to have own Internet Domain.
- You don’t have to get the Fixed Internet Public IP address instead so Dynamic DNS service bundle in Internet Domain name provider can help.
- In Japan, many registora is available but, Avalon lab team uses the following vendor.
- Free domain: Dynamic DO!.jp – ダイナミックDNS – (ddo.jp)
- Real domain: ドメイン取得ならバリュードメイン – ドメインと変える、サイトの価値。 (value-domain.com)
Value Domain Service provides Dynamic DNS service with no fee. You can map your Broad band Service IP address which is not fixed public IP address, to Internet domain names in DNS server anytime by using the script.
- Of courses, you must have the Internet connection, and its Broad band router is to be configured properly.