As of November 2016, I am VMware Certified Design Expert Number 236 in Data Center Virtualization. This is something I’ve had my eye set on accomplishing for a very, very long time. How long? We’re talking six years in the making. I vividly remember sitting at my desk and looking for VCP information (on version …
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One of the things which has been on my list for ages is getting better with Python. Why python you ask? Mainly because of OpenStack, but there’s more to it than that. Python is used as the language of choice by many others, mostly due to the way it is written. If you take a …
All of us VCAP-ers know how important our home labs are, so I wanted to give you all a rundown of mine, and how I configure it. I think it is important to have access to some sort of lab, whether it be physical or virtual. This gives us the opportunity to try things that …
When it comes to vSphere HA, there is a couple of key concepts. Mainly, Admission Control and fail over policy settings, as well as Host Isolation Response. First of all, what exactly is vSphere HA anyway? High Availability is the mechanism that protects virtual machines against hardware failures, by restarting them on a different host …
Welcome to my Launch Pad for VCDX During the course of my VCDX journey, I’ve seen so much great material floating around the internet. Here is some of the information I found helpful as I went through the VCDX process. Early on in the process, the best advice I found was to PRACTICE, PRACTICE, PRACTICE …
The second objective of the VCAP-DCA exam is Networking. Nothing all that new here for me, though this is the first time I’ve used Network I/O control. Here’s a breakdown of some of the topics in the objective. vSS (standard switches), are, as their name describes fairly standard. They need to be configured individually on …