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ashish_solanki
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Aug 11, 2018

APM in VM Lab

Hi All,   Can I build a LAB for APM in VMware workstation and till what extent I can use features of APM in VM LAB?   If some has already built a lab for APM please share the topology and the r...
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I_R_101_110
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Aug 11, 2018

Yes you can run your VM on Workstation. As for other servers, I used the f5 vlab LAMP server as a pool member for a test resource/ldap server/CA Authority.

 

I also used VM's in the cloud platforms (trial versions on AWS, Azure, and GCP) to side step the licensing situation for Windows. I used Windows Servers to lab things I couldn't do on the f5 vlab LAMP server such as RDP/AD/Kerberos/NTLM integration with APM.