One of the great joys in studying and taking an exam for me is that feeling of accomplishment and satisfaction I get when all the hard work and effort pays off with a successful pass. Over the last few years there has been an added benefit to becoming certified in various technologies. Many companies now [...]
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50% Off on VMware VCP Exams, 20% Off on Study Materials
TweetLate last week VMware Education Services sent out a tweet (follow them on Twitter HERE) that VMware is running a promotion for 50% off all VMware Certified Professional Exams (VCP-Cloud, VCP5-DV, VCP5-DT, and IaaS). On top of that they are also offering 20% of study materials from the “VMware Certification Marketplace” Both of these are [...]
VMware VCAP Studying with Trainsignal
Last week I received an email from someone who recently passed their VMware VCP 5 exam (congratulations again Justin!) leveraging the study guide that myself and Josh Coen have put together (located HERE). Justin also let me know that his next goal was to begin prepping for and passing the VMware VCAP-DCA 5 exam and [...]
VCAP-DCA 5 Objective 9.1–Install ESXi Server with Custom Settings
Objective 9.1 – Install ESXi Server with Custom Settings For this objective I used the following resources: vSphere 5 Documentation Center -> Understanding Image Builder vSphere 5 Documentation Center -> Image Builder Common Tasks VMware “vSphere Installation and Setup” documentation Knowledge Identify ESXi Image Builder Requirements Microsoft .NET 2.0 Microsoft PowerShell 1.0 or 2.0 vSphere PowerCLI (includes [...]
Migrating portgroups from a vSS to a VDS
Over the last few days I have a had a few people ask (this means you Tim Jabaut) about the process of migrating from a virtual standard switch over to a virtual distributed switch without any corresponding down time. I am guessing the reason for this question is more folks are planning and studying for [...]
VCP 5 Objective 6.1 – Perform Basic Troubleshooting for ESXi Hosts
Objective 6.1 – Perform Basic Troubleshooting for ESXi Hosts For this objective I used the following resources: vSphere Monitoring and Performance vSphere Troubleshooting VMware White Paper “The Architecture of VMware ESXi” VMware Support Insider Blog VMware KB Article 2000988 (Troubleshooting vSphere Auto Deploy) VMware KB Article 1011641 (Collecting Diagnostic Information for VMware vCenter Server) VMware [...]
VCP 5 Objective 6.2 – Perform Basic vSphere Network Troubleshooting
Objective 6.2 – Perform Basic vSphere Network Troubleshooting For this objective I used the following resources: VCP 5, Section 2 – Plan and Configure vSphere Networking VMware Information Guide “VMware Virtual Networking Concepts” VMware KB Article 1003893 (Troubleshooting Virtual Machine Network Connection Issues) VMware KB Article 1001938 (ESX/ESXi Host Requirements for Link Aggregation) VMware KB [...]
VCP 5 Objective 6.3 – Perform Basic vSphere Storage Troubleshooting
Objective 6.3 – Perform Basic vSphere Storage Troubleshooting For this objective I used the following resources: vSphere Monitoring and Performance vSphere Storage vSphere Troubleshooting VMware KB Article 1008205 (Using ESXTOP to identify storage performance issues) VMware KB Article 1003728 (Testing VMkernel network connectivity with the vmkping command) VMware KB Article 1020692 (Frequent path state changes [...]
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