Hyper-V Lab environment

[itssemi]

Hey guys,

 

I'm setting up a Hyper-V Lab environment. I would like to setup a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller, Exchange 2013 (HUB/Mailbox) server roles, file server and few clients.

I would like to register a domain name as well so I can test few thing live before I can implement on our production environment.

 

I don’t want my lab network to talk to our school network, I am thinking to use pfsense

 

Can anyone share experiences setting up their own?

 

Many thanks

Sam

[SHimmer45]

ive used smoothwall express for a similar type of setup, I found smoothwall's interface is easier to get to gripes with over pfsense, but pfsense is the more powerful product.

[itssemi]

Hi,

 

Can you please let me know how did you setup your lab network? Did you use hyper v or esxi?

 

Many thanks

[itssemi]

any help will be appreciated

[cpjitservices]

Ive done this, just setup a different IP range from your network.

[plexer]

If you're setting up a test lab there's no need to register a domain.

 

Ben

[mikeyd101]

can you use a different subnet / address range? or set it up on a physically separate switch/wifi.

 

I have been wanting to setup a lab environment for testing, we want to move to sccm and I also want to play with hydration scripts, but dont want todo that in a live environment.

[itssemi]

I want to setup a test lab similar to what we currently have in production that's why planning get a new domain name as well.