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 …
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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 …
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, …
I attended the New York/New Jersey VMUG user conference on May 22 in beautiful Jersey City, NJ. I’m only half sarcastic, check out the great view we had. I’m not sure if I should admit it, but this was my first VMUG, and it certainly won’t be my last. It is always fantastic to be …
I’m so proud to announce that I am a 2014 vExpert! vExpert is one of those things I’ve kind of lusted over for a while now…but that was about it. This year I decided it was time to go for it, and here I am! I really enjoyed scrolling through the list and checking out …