What Is Holodeck?
My posts mention Holodeck a lot, if you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t come across this yet, it provides a mostly automated method to deploy a fully functional VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) lab with reduced hardware. You can deploy a full nested VCF stack on a single (beefy) host, which make it much more accessible than the 4 host+vSAN minimum required for a VCF Management Domain.
This has been invaluable in my PSO role for VCF education, to simulate customer environments, perform demos, test configuration changes and upgrade scenarios.
Most of the topics i write about are deployed onto a standardized Holodeck 2-Site environment, which is great for consistency and repeatability.
I won’t write too much more on the topic, there’s already countless posts from others for Holodeck specifics. William Lam is definitely the GOAT here, with plenty of excellent posts about Holodeck and Homelab hardware advice.
VMware Holodeck Documentation
William Lam – Holodeck Tips and Tricks