There’s always a ton of discussion around home labs among IT professionals on Twitter, and many are very, very impressive! I have to admit, I do tend to have a case of home lab envy at times. Whatever you home lab consists of, be it a laptop, a desktop, or a mini rack, I’d like …
VCAP-DCA
Welcome to the latest installment of the #VCAPorBUST series – aimed at preparing for VMware VCAP certifications. You can see the rest of the articles in this series here. Today we are going to talk about VMware DRS. If you are looking for a more general, easy to understand overview of DRS, be sure to …
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 …
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, …