Originally Posted By: INANE
IMO for just setting up a test environment at home it doesn't matter what you use. Bare metal or something sitting on top of windows (virtual box works well for that).

If you are interested in actually learning about the major players in virtualization that's a different story. I just thought the original intent was to setup a lab at home to test out some software and AD.

Best advise I could give is to pick one thing to learn and focus on that first (virtualization or the other software products). It's not like rebuilding the test setup over and over would be a bad thing (likely be a very good thing actually).


Good points all around.


Fred

-------
Blujays1: Spending Fred's money one bottle at a time, no two... Oh crap!