Specifications
EMC CIS Series 1 Pod Installation and Configuration Guide           
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2.2  Pod Resource Requirements 
The EMC CIS Series 1 course will consume 51 GB of storage per each master pod 
instance. 
The following table provides details of the storage requirements for each of the virtual 
machines in the pod. 
Virtual Machine 
Initial Master Pod 
(Thin Provisioning) 
Client 
10.5 
ESXi01 
1 
ESXi02 
1 
NAS01 
15 
NAS02 
15 
VCSA 
8.5 
Total Recommended 
51 
2.3  ESXi Host Server Requirements 
Please refer to the NDG website for specific ESXi host requirements to support virtual 
machine delivery: http://www.netdevgroup.com/content/vmita/requirements/ 
The number of active pods that can be used simultaneously depends on the NETLAB+ 
product edition, appliance version and the number of VMware ESXi host servers 
meeting the hardware requirements specifications below. 
For current ESXi server requirements and active pod count, refer to the following 
URL: 
http://www.netdevgroup.com/support/remote_pc.html#vm_host_server_specificati
ons. 










