Here it is, my first certification study guide. It helped me a decent amount for the exam so I am hoping it can help others as well. There are a few things I want to mention first. The vast majority of the guide is not new or original Read more…
Hello All! I wanted to share my thoughts on my latest round of studying and the VCP-DTM 2018 exam. For those of you who haven’t been paying attention to the cert changes lately, just the name of the cert alone should be enough to tell you new things are Read more…
I am going to make this one short and sweet. On a reboot, hosts that have access to RDM LUNs can take a LONG time to reboot. In order to correct to correct this we can set the hosts to have the LUNs perennially reserved. The only way to set Read more…
A bit delayed but here it is. I sat the DCD a while at VMworld San Fran. Having never taken an exam at VMworld, this was an entirely new experience for me. Well, the PearsonVue exam experience, was pretty much like any other, I just didn’t realize how much it would Read more…
Let’s get started installing vCenter. It is never a bad idea to know what screens and information you will need before you get get there! Already this looks SIGNIFICANTLY more streamlined than the vSphere 5.5 installations with SSO, Inventory Service, etc etc etc Next next next! I went with Embedded Read more…
This is especially useful for SMB who don’t have large environments, and can’t throw resources at a vCenter Server This is what one of my vCenter Servers looked like recently To give some insight, this is a vCenter that manages around 3 hosts and 50 VMs. I quickly found a Read more…
Although VMworld 2014 US is now over, we can still continue to learn from it. Even if you accomplished everything you set out to do at VMworld, there is never a way to do everything there. Or Maybe you didn’t even have a chance to go to VMworld, and feel Read more…
My vCenter Server was acting up and throwing a bunch of random errors. When I started investigating it appeared that the C drive was out of space. Completely Out. Yeah, I guess I haven’t been a very good administrator…. So after a few minutes of some quick cleaning and getting Read more…
If you don’t know about Heartbleed yet…Well I don’t know what to say… I guess check this out. http://heartbleed.com/ Unfortunately, ESXi is susceptible to this The full kb is here from VMware http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2076665 Fortunately it can be patched with everyone’s favorite patch tool VMware Update Manager Now that I have Read more…
While working on getting my hosts properly patched, I found I couldn’t even do a scan on them. Alright so next I took a look at the esxupdate log on the host. Both of these correspond to a VMware kb found Here The cause as listed in the KB “This Read more…