I am very new to this, but have worked with vSphere in a virtual environment. I am building a Vsphere lab to experiment with and I need advice on the best way to virtualize Vcenter. I will be using a ProLiant DL380 G6 as my primary ESXi host and an Intel 9550 based system to use as another ESXi host with a FreeNAS server configured as iSCSI. I also have two Cisco 3550-12T switches which are layer 3 switches with advanced routing.
I have Windows Server 2008 r2, 2012 r2 and Windows 10 to work with as the operating systems on my vSphere server machine. It is an i5 4 core based machine. I could use HyperV or VMware workstation 12 as the virtual host for vCenter. I am leaning towards workstation 12, but I am unsure which operating system to use. What is the best combination to use to virtualize vCenter.
Or should I just use the vCenter appliance on the ProLiant box?
Bill