In order to create a lab without physical equipment and to practice the procedures provided in this book, you will need the following:

• A UCS Emulator virtual machine that provides UCS Manager and emulated hardware.
• A hypervisor that can run the UCS Emulator VM. Options include VM Player, VM Workstation, VM Fusion, vSphere, and Hyper-V.
• A client machine with an Internet Explorer- or Mozilla-compatible browser for accessing the UCS Manager application.