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How to Deploy Dell EMC ECS Community Edition in Your Home Lab

When working with enterprise systems, it is always good to have a lab system that you can easily try  and break things. Today, I will be writing about one of my favorite products, Dell EMC ECS, which is sometimes scary when I need to perform some uncommon things. I am following the GitHub website for Dell EMC ECS Community Edition , for the latest release and install this version. Today, the most recent version available is 3.7.0.0 and you may directly download the OVA file from here . You may also read the Release Notes  but dont forget that this article is aimed for Community Edition, thus keep in mind that this will be an unsupported deployment and purposed for lab and testing basically. For the enterprise Dell EMC ECS products, you may visit Dell Technologies website. OK, lets continue with the deployment. I assume you have the OVA file already downloaded and ready to be deployment. In my Vmware Workstation setup, I do click on File > Open and select the OVA file to dep...