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 …
I don’t know if I want to laugh or cry at the fact that the first objective on the VCAP-DCA 550 exam is storage. We all know how much I hate block based storage, so I’m really having to force myself to power through it, which gave me the idea for this blog series. Yes, …
After taking a generally bad study approach for the last few months (half way studying for VCAP-DCA and DCD at the same time), I’ve finally decided to go back to my original study approach of DCA then DCD (which was originally the other way around, and then the hybrid approach, which could explain why I …