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Virtualization for Dummies
I know next to nothing about virtualization. I don't think, at least at this time, that I need to become certified in it. I do, however, need to understand at least the fundamentals. I'm looking for a good resource to learn from the ground up. I see there is a "Virtualization for Dummies" book that has good reviews on…
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Windows 8 Hyper-V
Yesterday I was in a meeting with Microsoft software about Windows 8 and Server 2012, and they said Hyper-V is built into Windows 8. I did a little googling and saw that some of the limitations were some of the enterprise level features like SAN offloading. Does anyone know if there is any other serious limitations to…
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ESXi 5 on a stick
Running esxi on a usb stick, can't stay connected while in vsphere client, at the server it shows both vmnic's connected, have tried setting network mgt to dhcp and static ip, can test the network and usually after configuring for dhcp or static i can ping the gateway, once i can ping the gateway i will get connectivity in…
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VCAP5-DCD scheduled
Noticed that the nearest test center offering DCD exam was filling up quick (no time slot for May, 4 slots for June). Scheduled to take the exam on 6/27. This exam scares me a lot. At least the first try is paid by the company. Hopefully I won't need a 2nd try.
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VMware vSphere 5.0 - Installation Questions
I have a few questions on the installing VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0. Server: Dell PowerEdge 2950 III (# of CPUs: 2, CPU: 3.0GHz Quad Core 12MB Intel X5450 RAM: 16GB Buffered (8x 2GB) HDD1: 73GB 15K SAS 3.5" HDD2: 73GB 15K SAS 3.5", HDD3: 73GB 15K SAS 3.5", HDD4: 73GB 15K SAS 3.5", HDD5: 73GB 15K SAS 3.5", HDD6: 73GB 15K SAS…
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Hardware concerns for a virtual host
I'm planning on building a machine and I want it to be able to run all the virtual machines required in a test lab guide. I suspect that the number of virtual machines could be somewhere between 5 and 10 based on the TLGs I have read. Other than RAM and an i7, what hardware components are the ones to pay attn to? I am…
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Supermicro H8DME-2 & Opteron 2218
I'm getting this from someone next week. 1x Supermicro H8DME-2 2x Opteron 2218 with 2U heatsink/fans 4x 1G ECC Reg 4x 2G ECC Reg I'm thinking: since this board has nVidia MCP55 chipset, and Opteron is supported by vmware... What do you guys think? Good enough for vmware lab?
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Req: VCP-IaaS voucher
Cheeky, I know, but if anyone comes across a voucher for the IaaS exam, I'd appreciate to have a stab at it I need to get this one soon, but it isn't cheap here in the UK so any (virtual) help is appreciated. Love and kisses :p
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SQL on RDM/Passthrough disks?
Whether you are using VMWare or HyperV in your environment, what are the factors that make your decision on using or not using RDM / Passthrough disks? I ask because in an environment I'm working in, I have been tasked to set up a HyperV cluster and 5 virtuals. One virtual houses the clients main app and SQL 2008. We were…
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Anyone interested in a free 25% discount VCP voucher?
Got this email yesterday from VMware offering a 25% discount on: • VMware Certified Associate – Desktop (VCA410-DT) • VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 4 (VCP410) • VMware Certified Professional 4 – Desktop (VCP410-DT) • VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 (VCP510) Apparently this is only applicable to…
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New Storage Books
Just ordered a copy of "Virtualization Changes Everything: Storage Strategies for VMware vSphere & Cloud Computing". I was debating between it and "Storage Design and Implementation in vSphere 5.0® (VMware Press)" which is also available for purchase. Decided to go with the former mainly because its written by NetApp guys.
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High Performance Vsphere 5 LAB
Hello fellow virtualization enthusiasts! I am in the process of building a high preforming Vsphere home lab and would like the opinion/advice of those who are wiser than me when it comes to VMWare. I will have two ESXi servers, one will be 4 because as far as I know ESXi 5 does not support CUCM 8.6 (CallManager), Unity,…
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I'm sold! Virtualization it is!
Just started watching some introduction to VMWare and... holy cow! this. is. cool. =O I always thought of VMWare as something like WINE, or like Bootcamp. Actually, not bootcamp, maybe WINE. But ANYWAY, I was thinking about going the CCNP track and/or Linux+ RHCSA... but... not anymore! gotta learn VMWare first! [Edit]…
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VMWorld 2012 Top 10 Sessions.
VMworld posted the Top 10 Sessions from VMworld 2012 San Francisco: VMworld.com: Top 10 Sessions Some of us -TE members - have attended the Vmworld and quite enjoyed it. A note to myself, pick a few topics and call it a day, rather running around like a headless chicken. I already miss the "march of penguins", from a West…
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can't install w8x64, & win server 2012 on VM Ware, but no trouble with Virtual Box.
On VMWAre I have sucsessfully installed the following: DOS win3.1 win95 win98se XP XPx64 server 2000 server 2003 10.8 mountain lion I have tried to install the following but have had no sucsess to install on VMWare: w8x64 server 2012 If I install w8x64, and server 2012 data center GUI on Oracle Virtual Box I get all the…
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HA election question
Quick one about HA election. If two or more hosts have the same number of connected datastores, the one with the highest Managed Object ID is chose as the master. Where do I see this ID? Got to be something I can only see via the command-line. Thank you.
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Unidesk or other desktop management
Anyone have feedback on Unidesk? I would also like to know of similar products out there for simplifying virtual desktop management with VMware View as the broker.
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Trainsignal series review
Finished watching vSphere Advanced Networking & Designing VMware Infrastructure recently. Here's my $0.02 review: Thought the Networking was an excellent video series. Jason had a lot of demos throughout series showing where the commands are located and how to configure them, showing the impacts of various configurations,…
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vSphere 5.1 is now live
Going to download and give it a try later today, but first I'm going to give PowerCLI 5.1 and give it a spin to make sure it didn't break any of my scripts - PowerShell 3.0 did, and I had to make some adjustments.
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P2V – Hyper-V
Hi, I just wonder if somebody could help me. I’m looking for free tool (or very cheap) which will move my Windows Server 2003 with 400GB HDD (almost full) to .vhd (or .vhdx as I’m going to use Windows server 2012 as a host). I wanted to use Disk2vhd but unfortunately I have to increase size of the HDD to 500GB and it has…
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VMware vSphere 5.0 Labs
Do you know of a good place to find VMware vSphere 5.0 labs for configuration and troubleshooting?
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Backup Academy Cert
Hi Guys, One of the lads I work with chucked this my way the other day. Backup Academy - VM Backup and Recovery Training class & certification course for IT professionals Not sure if the Cert would hold any weight but the knowledge gain can never be a bad thing!!
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XenServer
Any market value to learning XenServer? Seems that medium and large companies are going ESXi and smaller are sticking with Hyper-V.
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Answer virtual machine question?
Here's a quick brief about my lab. Physical ESXi 5.1 box runs a vCenter VM, a DC, 3x vESXi 5.1 VM's and a vMA VM. A Starwind iSCSI SAN sitting on the vCenter VM provides shared storage to the vESXi VM's. So I had all these VM's running. Wanted to see how VM's and hosts behaved in the absence of vCenter. Powered up 2 VM's…
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Strategy for passing VCP5
Hi I have been given budget approval to go on the 5 day ICM course for vSphere 5. I have 2 years experience in using Vsphere (Daily, I support a 24\7 HA cluster with 10 hosts, >150 VMs, >50 VLANS) and 4 years general windows sysadmin\networking experience. I'm trying to come up with a strategy to make the most of the…
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Yes, it's virtual, but that's not the reason...
For anyone that works with VMs, either VMware or Hyper-V, or whatever your platform. You notice how if something acts up on the guest OS, the immediate reason must be because it's a VM, so they go to the VM guy? I get plenty of people that come to me because they have an issue with a VM, and they come to me because they…
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Question about hypervisor swapping
Quick question guys, say I have a VM in a resource pool with a low memory limit. Will hypervisor swapping occur for this VM if the VM consistently hits that limit or will ballooning be enough to cater for the demand for memory? And what impact does it have on other VM's on the host? Assume no other VM's have a memory limit…
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Vmware Workstation 8 and AD_DNS
Hey everyone, before i tell you what Im having problems with this is my network layout. I have Vmware Workstation 8 installed on a desktop PC with in that I have ESXi5 installed and within the esxi host i have a VM thats my AD-DNS. On the AD I cant browse the internet All lights and notifications look connected on the vm…
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Intersting: Manage vSphere / Hyper-V / KVM from vCenter
Hotlink - Screenshots & Videos Not sure if that would work now with the new vCenter client in 5.1 - but certainly nice integration ..
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View, Remote Access and Security
Looking for similar experiences from TE members here. Does anyone have their View clients use VPN devices to access their remote desktop? I have about 20 users that will use View initially. They will be remotely accessing Win7 desktops and accessing confidential PDF files and loading confidential ISO files primarily. Will…
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Download VMware vSphere 5.0
https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads https://my.vmware.com/web/vmware/info/slug/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0 Which version of vSphere 5.0 is best for a lab environment in preparation for VCP5? Essentials Essentials Plus Standard Enterprise Enterprise Plus Desktop All of them are free for 60…
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Backing up a deduped file system
Here is the set up. Windows server 2008 RC with a 8Tbye FC mapped LUN. VSphere set up with a hosts datastore mapped to an NFS share on the above windows server. a VMware DR appliance with a VMDK on the above NFS datastore. So the VDR appliance is backing up to the VMDK which is on the LUN on the 2008 server... that all…
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My first week of VMWare and Virtual Box
My firstweek of VMWare and Virtual Box Where could Igood to find some VMware projects to do, this is what I have done this last week. VMWare isvery cool! :D This last week in my free time I loaded VMWare, and Oracle Virtual Box . I installed: On VMWare 9 XP XP 64 bit Server 2003 Windows 98 Windows 95 MS-DOS 6.22…
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Is MCITP; Virtualization Admin worth it at this point?
So I haven't really been keeping up with the MS flipflop. I didn't even know they were going back to MCSE till about a month ago. I have one more test, the 70-693 for my MCITP: VA cert. Is it worth it at this point. My employer is paying for it so I guess that's a plus. Still I don't like the uncertainty. Do you guys think…
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What's new in vSphere 5.1
One certainly nice change http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vsphere/vmware-what-is-new-vsphere51.pdf I am still annoyed how often VMWare is now being upgraded, some changes being quite big Can't wait for 100s of VMs with ghost nic issues :)
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VCP5 Pass!
Finally got around to taking VCP 5 this afternoon. Definitely a lot of tricky questions that need to be carefully read but overall came out with a decent score. I've been working daily for almost a year with vSphere, took the week long class, read Mastering vSphere 5.0, watched the CBT Nuggets and read a bunch of white…
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Questions about NetIOC
Just went through the NetIOC best practices pdf from VMware and a couple of things aren't clear to me. I'd appreciate if someone can shed some light on this please. 1. System network resource pool. When you enable NetIOC on the vDS and dont configure a user-defined pool, does the system pool do anything? I mean you cant…
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Storage DRS Question
All, I am messing with Storage DRS and I notice I have an option for migration if latency is greater than 15ms. Now, is that an average latency over some time? If what is the time parameter?Or will this trigger on an isolated incident that lasts for only a second or two? thanks,
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Virtualization - Skills and Certifications
What skills/certifications have you found to be most useful and in demand by employers while working in the virtualization field?
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first try with VMWare workstation 8 & can't telnet
HI I just loaded VMWare Workstation 8 onto my windows 7 x64 (w7x64). I had trouble loading XP 64 so ,I just loaded the OS windows XP pro 32 on VM. 32bit xp seems to work fine. I installed java 1.4.2_05, Cisco SDM, and a terminal emulator ZocPro. I can ping my Router from the cmd in vm, but i can not telnet or connect threw…
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VMWare Question
Hey guys, Hanging out at VMWorld since last Friday. Overheard a guy talking about this, any reason you can think of changing the way the ports bind? VMware KB: Choosing a port binding type
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Will Server 2012/Hyper-V overtake vSphere 5.1???
As Microsoft gains, VMware insists that it maintains the upper hand | Ars Technica Thoughts?
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VCP5 Conquered!
I posted this over on the VMware forums, but I thought I would copy paste my experience here also :) Last week I passed my VCP5 Exam... Seriously that was pretty tough. I didn't score great but that doesn't bother me due to it being pretty damn hard and a pass is a pass To anyone studying for the exam, my best advice is to…
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Tips for creating multiple VM's (CPU, RAM, etc)
I'm still pretty new with visualization but recently I added VMware workstation to my Cisco lab with the goal of being able to create a bunch of VMs to act as client PC's connected to my Cisco topology. The problem is I'm not really sure what the sweet spot is for creating a small enough VM that I can run a bunch of these…
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Anyone plan on going to VMworld?
So I decided it was worth going to vmworld even though I have to pay out of pocket for the expense. I'm hoping the knowledge and the networking will be worth the price tag. Anyone else going to the event?
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VMWare Workstation 9 released
Wow - missed that one completely ... >> Click << ....
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NooB in the "Virtual" world........
Good day to all here....Per advice of a friend,I would like to learn more about virtualization(especially since our technology dept has tech/admin who are being guided into this subject and I'm gonna have a heads up) I've seen a few tutorials on YouTube and have registered at Vmware for a free online lesson.And the my…
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MCITP: Virtualization Administrator on Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi all, I'm thinking of starting this course. Has anyone completed it and can reccommend some books etc? Also what would i need to do the labs? I was told to get a server setup with at least 4GB RAM. I have a PC that holds 4GB RAM, would that do? It currently running 32bit XP........so if i was to download something like…
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VMWare to Scrap vRAM Licensing Model
VMware Kills vRAM Licensing, Will Focus On vSphere Cloud Bundles Starting in 5.1, which will be debuted at VMWorld, VMWare is apparently going to announce they are dropping the new vRAM licensing model and going back to the per-CPU licensing model. Nice.
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Virtualization - Where to Start?
I've been playing around with VMWare's VMPlayer and I'm quite intrigued. I havent really found any information on where to start nor do I really know where to look. I've heard the VMware certification is really best for someone who already has some experience and works with it everyday, I dont have that. So where do I…
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Passed 70-659
Barely, with a 715. I should be careful about which exams I claim I can pass without studying. Last Friday I learned that my project for this week was rescheduled for a couple of weeks later. I checked around on Monday to see if anyone needed an extra body this week, but between the Worldwide Partner Conference and the…
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VirtualBox or VMware?
I want to install windows 8 on a virtual machine before I install it on my computer. What I want to know is which is the better software for this? I've heard a lot about both VMware and VirtualBox but I'm not sure which one to get. I have used VMware before to run various versions of linux on my desktop before installing…
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VMUG and free VCP exam
Received this email from VMware VMUG - paying $200 for a $225 VCP exam and a bunch of other perks sounds like a deal to me :)
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VMware ESXi for 64 bit device
Is there any free VMware ESXi 64 bit that I can grab from VMware? I was thinking of using Virtualbox but I would rather use a free enterprise VMware so I can reinforce my VMware knowledge and load a bunch of GNS3 and Linux, I really don't want to use VMware server, I want shell and manage it via vsphere or vcenter for…
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Sweet home lab
This lab puts many production environments to shame: My Lab Environment « Long White Virtual Clouds
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What's New 5.0
I am wanting to upgrade my VCP4 to 5 (blah, should have got my 4 before the free "upgrade" without a class, only a test, was required) and know I will need to take the What's New in 5 class. VMWare quote is $1500 for Live Online classes. Being new at this employer, I am not going to ask them for training expenses yet (I am…
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Question regarding entering vmware field.
Hi everybody. I am desperate finding jobs, so everyday I am thinking new way to improve myself and be qualified to land on a nice job. Although I have good education( computer engineering associated, software engineering bachelor. But I suck at programing), I can't seem to find even entry level A+ jobs. I decided to go…
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Best free/online study material for VCP5? **** sheets, blog posts, etc
I work with pretty much every VMware product and have a lot of experience so I am not new to VMware or virtualization. My work is sending me to the official class, so I have decided to go ahead and gear up for the VCP5. I just ordered the new VCP5 study guide from Sybex. Now aside from the study guide does any know of any…
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New book released
Just got my shipment notice Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere Deployment Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere Deployments | Pearson IT Certification
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Question about VCAP-DCA exam
Quick question about this test folks. Do they specifically ask you to configure something using the vMA/vCLI/PowerCLI? Now I know being a command line junkie is cool and all, but I'd like to focus my time and energy to learning the product to the extent needed for the exam. Surely clicking around a few times is going to be…
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ESXi 5 hosts not registering with DNS
Scratching my head on this one. Here's my lab: Physical ESXi 5 U1 host. There are the following VM's on this host: 1. 2008 R2 domain controller, 10.0.0.2 2. vCenter server, 10.0.0.3 3. vMA, 10.0.0.50 4. 3 x ESXi 5 U1 hosts, 10.0.0.4 - 10.0.0.6, hostnames : esxi3.domain.local through to esxi5.domain.local. (The names are…
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How Lowe can you go?
Looks like Scott Lowe is moving away from vmware. So Long, Status Quo (Again) - blog.scottlowe.org - The weblog of an IT pro specializing in virtualization, storage, and servers
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vFoglight Alerting on running processes and services on server
Hello there, Does anybody know how I can use vFoglight to monitor all my virtual server's services and processes? I want alerts to let me know if there is a service/process that is using an excessive amount of memory or CPU. I see that I can view how much each service/process is using currently but I would like an alert if…
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Newb to VMware
I have a View project that will be hopefully getting signed off on soon. A contractor is going to stand up a VMware View 5 starter kit in our office. It will also be using Netapp. Goal is to service about 30 virtual desktops for secure remote access....initially. We may expand that and also use it for servicing thin…
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Passed VCP510 today!
I passed the VMWare VCP510 today! I got a 406 our of 500. I felt really confident going in, and was not nervous at all during the exam. It was definitely much easier than I had anticpated. Spent a lot of time memorizing min/max values :/
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Passed VCP510
...this afternoon. This was my second attempt at it. I missed out on the first one by 10 points, bettered it this time by over 100 points and got a 407. The testing centre was unusually quiet which the proctor attributed to the afternoon slot. Here's my review: 1. Straightforward exam mostly, either you know it or you…
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TrainSignal VCAP5-DCD video
TrainSignal released Designing VMware Infrastructure | Train Signal. I remember Scott Lowe mentioning this in 1 of his Q&A session.
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VCP5-IaaS certification now available
I didn't see this posted yet... this new IaaS cert went live several days ago. VCP5 is the only pre-requisite. VCP5-Infrastructure as a Service
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Critical VMWare Mistakes You Should Avoid
Has anyone read this book? Critical VMWare Mistakes You Should Avoid Looking to pick up a couple new VMWare books and this came up in my search.
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VCP5 after networking
Hey everyone, I'm going to be finishing up my CCNA pretty soon and am wanting to learn virtualization. Would it be a good idea to jump into the VCP5 after learning some networking? Has anyone else taken this path? Advice? Thanks
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Brian Atkinson VCP5 VMware Certified Professional on vSphere 5 Study Guide
Anyone use this book? How was it? I am thinking about studying it and then taking the course online from UCSC. I do have some base experience with VMWARE and I will be building a lab at home.
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Free video "training" from VMware
Hard to call these videos training, but they provide good overview and complement the pdfs of various VMware technologies. These videos are the free ones I found under mylearn:* Introducing the VMware Security Solution Fundamentals * Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange 2010 with VMware-Customer * Virtualizing Business-Critical…
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My VCAP5-DCD BETA and GA exam experiences
My VCAP5-DCD BETA and GA exam experiences.
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vMotion & Jumbo frame
Anyone enabled jumbo frame for vMotion? There was an article I read while back which recommended not enabling jumbo for vMotion due to mixed performance. Just finished watching a presentation by VCDX recommending jumbo for vMotion (he did state for 10 Gig). Curious as to how TE members have their environment setup.
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VCP Quest
Just wanted to place a random status update on my VCP quest. Background – I have about 4 years of virtualization experience so I think that is helping a lot. I’d done the official basics courses for VI 3.5, 4.0 and now 5.0. Oh, and XenServer. I did the full Train Signal series on VCAP for vSphere 4. (not very good, but…
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Installing multiple vm's sharing same resources.
Im new to the vm world and had a question not sure if its a dumb one or not but figured i'd ask anyway. I am running esxi 4.1 with 1tb of space to run call manager suite ver 8. I wanted to install ver 7 also but wont have the resources to support running everything at once. I thought about it and realized I dont need to…
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How to get into Virtualization
Lately i have been interested in virtualization and think it is going to be the future technology for a VERY long time. Now i read some post here that one should have experience before becoming a virtualization professional. My question is, where should a "newbie" start off if he wants to get into virtualization? Should he…
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Help with VMware 8 Networking
I just setup a home lab with WMware workstation 8 to get my hands on server 2008 and ESXi. I have the following setup SERVER A Running server 2008 2 NICs nic1- Bridged and using DHCP, can communicate to the HOST PC nic-2 Using VMnet2, using static IP address IP 192.168.50.1 SM 255.255.255.0 GW 192.168.50.1 DNS 192.168.50.1…
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VCP 5 Exam Discount Voucher - Finished Vmware 5 course through CCCTI
Hey; How long does it take to receive the Exam Discount voucher for VCP 5 after you finished the Vmware course. I did it at CCCTI (Cadwell Community college) - It is an official course. Thanks
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VM name change
Quick question guys, I was reading on vmware's documentation that if you change the name of a VM in the vSphere client, the name of the files and folders associated dont change until a Storage vMotion has been performed. I just Storage vMotioned it, browsed the datastore and although the VM's folder name changed, the files…
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Binding the ESX Software iSCSI Initiator to Two (or more) VMkernel Ports
We're troubleshooting an ESX 4.1 stability issue at work. We've had our hosts completely lock up, at seemingly random times, apparently due to a multipathing issue with iSCSI. We're running a Dell MD3200i SAN. While researching/troubleshooting this issue we've come across the concept of binding vmk's to the iSCSI software…
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FT almost
Thought I had a chance to deploy FT in the wild. Was pretty excited since this is 1 of the cool VMware features you never use in production. The customer wanted to protect against guest OS failure and for whatever reason my addled brain thought FT protected against hardware failure & guest OS failure (I blame the heatwave).
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Question on installing ESXi Free on an HP DL-360
Hi, I am just getting my feet wet here, so please bear with me. I have an HP DL-360 G5 currently running Windows Server 2003 R2 x86. I have onboard Hardware RAID configured as 1 and 5. The OS is mirrored on drive C and the data drive D, is RAID 5. I would like to unistall this completely, install ESXi free, then create a…
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Old servers VS new desktops ?
hi i'm newbie to virtualization. i'm studying cisco & linux using gns3 & kvm. i have a laptop, but, it can't handle the GNS3 labs. so, i'm in need of a new machine. i won't use so many services, it will be just for home labbing. i was thinking of buying 1 or 2 used dell server (1950) or smth. but they use ddr2 ram which is…
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VM Lab with 2 servers
Hello, I am hoping someone with experience can make some specific suggestions on the following config I intend to use for my lab. I have a spare i3 cpu and 2u rack mount Norco case, I am thinking I can use this with micro-atx board and make this into a storage box. How much RAM is needed for this, is 8gig enough, 16gb? Is…
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VMware Training Online vs Classroom
Hi guys, Was wondering if any of you could provide a review of your experience with VMware's online training or its classroom training. I in the process of registering for the VCP5 Install, Manage, Configure class and am in a toss up wether to go online or classroom. I have taken both online and classroom courses…
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Server for Home Lab
I am planning on adding a server to my home lab for VMware and HyperV. I have a Skeletek rack for 1U components. Looking at Dell PowerEdge servers. What type of special criteria should I be looking for in servers to handle virtualization? Besides, Dell, what other brands do you recommend?
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passed vcp5 exam. when do i need to complete vmware course to officially become vcp5
hi, i passed the vcp5 exam about a couple of months ago. when do i have to complete the vmware course before officially become a vcp5? is there a deadline that i need to take the vmware course by? i am planning to take one of those official online courses. thank you!
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vNUMA?
Can someone please explain vNUMA to me? I simply cant seem to wrap my head around this. I downloaded a whitepaper from vmware but the jargon in there makes it so much harder to understand. Just a few lines would suffice. Thanks!
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Questions about the training at UCSC
For those who have doing their VMware course at UCSC, I have some questions for you. 1. Does the course run from say 6pm-9pm or something? 2. Is the training live and interactive or pre-recorded? Can you ask questions as you go? 3. If you miss a couple of sessions here and there, can you complete them later? I ask these…
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Free 70% discount voucher for VMware exam
It's time to give back to the wonderful TE community... I discovered a discount voucher from the VMware course I've taken at UCSC almost a year. The voucher gives 70% discount off the cost of the VMware VCP exam. It expires on June 23, 2012 - I don't know whether that's the deadline for using the voucher or exam date. I am…
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Win7 Vitual PC performance issues
When studying for the 70-680 and 70-685 I was going to make several virtual Pcs but I noticed something and I don't know if its unique to me or not so I figured it cant hurt anything except my pride to ask. I'v mounted the Win7 Ultimate x64 via ISO in the settings tab and all but as soon as the Install Windows chose you…
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2 boxes vs 1
I really want to start learning vmware and am looking at setting up a lab. However, I am having a hard time deciding if I should build one powerful desktop to run nested vm's on or build two physical with esxi. The cost is going to be around the same so really trying to figure out which would be more beneficial. This will…
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Configuration maximums on the VCP5 test?
Quick question folks, are the config maximums on the test? I'm prepping as well as I can but asking as I dont want any surprises on Saturday. Thanks!
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Routing between virtual networks
I need to setup 2 virtual machines in VMWare for an Exchange test environment, each on their own network for isolation. However, they need to be able to communicate. Just wondering how I would go about routing between them? Sorry if this is an ignorant question, I'm fairly new to VMWare.
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70-659 Passed
Sat the 70-659 again this afternoon and passed with a 873. I originally sat this 2 weeks ago and failed with a 683. Came in with no Hyper-V experience (work in an entire VMware shop), but saw the opportunity to take the 659 for free and thought it'd be good to expand my horizons a bit. Ended up paying for the retake in the…
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Getting Smart Card reader to work on thin client
We have some HP thin client desktop that run Linux and use VMware View 4.6 to login into a Windows 7 virtual desktop. We are having issues mapping through the USB Card reader device to be detected in the Windows 7 OS although on the thin client's linux terminal the device can be seen. We have tried to manually add the PID…
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vDS Dynamic Configuration
Anyone read VMware vSphere Distributed Switch Best Practices regarding vDS dynamic configuration? Interesting read. One of the things it got me thinking about was MTU. For optimal iSCSI traffic MTU should be set at 9000. Since single vDS is deployed, all network traffic will be set at 9000 if you change the MTU on vDS. You…
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Poor Performance on Guests. CPU Ready Values 700ms
Hi, Was hoping someone should advise me, I have one ESXi 4.1 Update 1 host which has: 1 x SBS 2011 2vCPU 2 x Ms Svr 2K8 R2 1vCPU each 1x Ms Svr 2K3 SQL 4vCPU 1 X Linux Svr 1vCPU The host has in total 6 Cores per socket and 12 logically processors with 1 socket and hyper-threading enabled. The issue is some of my VM are…
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VCP 5 cert NOOB question
My employer recently booked me for the one week course linked below. I don't have a heck of a lot of vitualization experience. Mostly VMware workstation but because I've got this course coming and it covers the exam prerequisite I'm thinking I should try to knock this one out. Questions: I found this study guide at…