You can use VMs for each and you shouldn't need more than two on at a time (though there may be one lab where you need three on at once).

In my CEH class, the VM's were installed under Hyper-V, solely because they had a lack of machines to be able to dedicate extra ones as Xen servers, etc.  But in the context of the labs and what we did, Hyper-V wouldn't have been necessary, otherwise.  You should be able to setup Xen VM's for everything, if that's what you have available.

Perfect... Setting up the lab right now.  Thanks for the answers, guys.

I just got done reading your review of your experience with the pilot, which made me start to question my patching.  Very informative review, by the way.  I wonder if I should go back and perform fresh installs on the machines that I patched up.  That way I can always snapshot afterward and then re-patch during class if necessary.  New Horizons has been somewhat vague on most things I've asked about the course so far, so it wouldn't hurt to be over-prepared.

You got VMs? I got eleven million powerpoint slides and a "good luck" at the end.

-N33

I'm very glad that I went through the trouble of setting up my own lab ahead of time, and I strongly recommend that all future CEH course takers do the same.  While our instructor did set up a decent environment for each user, we remote users are stuck with VNCing into our host machines and running VMWare Player to use our VMs.  Lots of lag and keyboard input issues to say the least.  My local VMs have been working perfectly for me, however, and since no one can see my screen, I also don't feel "under the gun" when doing lab excercises.

I don't want to start another topic for this, since I've kind of been spamming this forum with my questions anyway, so I'll bring this up here:  After getting into the meat of this course, I've been feeling very confident of my abilities, as I've used and played with nearly everything we studied in class on my own over the past year or two anyway.  Since tomorrow's our last day, I decided to get a jump on test preparation.  Downloaded PrepLogic's 50-question CEH practice exam and tested.  I do want to note that I believe it's an outdated practice test (seems to be v5 or 6,) but I was absolutely shocked to see that I failed pretty miserably.  Twice.  Since the practice exam contained a lot of old info, such as Windows 2000 exploitation and near-obsolete tools that I've never touched, I don't want to put too much weight into these results, but it's making me seriously reassess my skillset, or possibly even whether the official courseware is sufficient study material to pass the CEH.  

Am I off-base in thinking this way?  Or is the v7 exam that much different from the older versions?  I was originally planning on taking the exam as soon as I could possibly get it scheduled, as class has been cake, but not so sure now.

I decided to try Sybex's practice exams last night.  Getting much better results there.  I did miss some questions, but passed all of their 20-question segments on my own with 85-100%.  Found  the areas I need to focus on and wlll be studying them throughout the week.  In fairness, the PrepLogic demo practice test only had 50 questions, and there was a lot of focus on ancient tools that were never mentioned in 7.1 training.  I probably should have diversified my practice testing before freaking out.  

Either way, feeling a little more in-line with what I'm expected to know.  A week's practice should seal the deal on the exam.