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 …
I decided it would be a great idea to update my team’s lab to vSphere 5.5 for a couple of reasons. First, we were on 5.0, so we couldn’t run Windows 2012, and secondly, I need to get back to the hands on for VCAP practice. I haven’t been a VMware “person” in about two …