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1st sucessfully VMware "live" cluster deployed
I kind of was a bit nervous but I knew what needed to be done just followed my instincts and game-plan but I just spent the whole day deployed a 3 server (Dell R720's) cluster with a Equalogic 6100 SAN. All of the fabric for iSCSI and vMotion was build on dual HP Procurve 2910al switches with a 10 Gbit interconnect in the…
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Stanley CC Class August - Oct 2014
Starting a new thread for the next class, I just received my notification for enrolling in the class for Aug 19th - Oct 7th, woohoo. Was on the wait list since March 3rd, had honestly completely forgotten about it until I received the email. Impeccable timing though, should have just finished my CCNA before the class…
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failover/backup for physical server hosting 4 vms?
hi, i need to work on geting our physical server in work (hyper v installed running 4 vms) backed up to possibly another physical server. is this the best way to do it for failover purposes? looking for the cheapest way to do it. new enough to virtualisation so looking for opinions on how best to do this.
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Home Lab Tutorial
Found this while bumping around trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my lab to get ready for the VCP. Seems nice, I really need to get some more memory as I'm only running 16 GB but we'll see how it works. https://boerlowie.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/building-the-ultimate-vsphere-lab-part-1-the-story/
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Upgrading vCenter 5.1 to 5.5?
Sorry if this is a dumb or obvious question. I've tried doing some searching but haven't come up with the answer yet. So, I have access to dreamspark, and dreamspark has vSphere and vCloud 5.5 but vCenter is 5.1. I tried email their customer support to ask if vCenter really is 5.1 or a typo that hasn't been updated yet,…
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VMware OpenStack
I'm about to start doing some testing with this. Thought I'd post and see if anyone else is working with this or plans to be?
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Red Hat Enterprise OpenStack Platform Course CL210
Moved this post over to this virtualization forum, since this is really where it belongs. Also wanted to point out that this class would be beneficial for anyone working with OpenStack, not just RHEL OSP. Took me a while to get time to post a summary of this course. I really wanted to do it justice, because it was a great…
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How long did you study for VCP-DCV before taking the exam?
Kind of would like to see how long you all studied and how much before sitting the VCP-DCV exam. Myself I've been reading during the week and labbing on weekends for well over 3 months now but I'd like to see what others have done. Also curious what kind of labs you all had; mine is really overkill so hopefully it will…
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MSE: When limiting a Resource pool for a DC MSE will freak out!
Hey guys, maybe this will be helpful for one of you. I found out a little while ago when you make a resource pool for a 2008 R2 or 2012 R2 DC and you limit the CPU to only 1000 mhz with only 2 GB's are a reservation it will cause MSE to literally freaking the frig out and max's the CPU! I figured why allocate a full 8 GB's…
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Acronis 11.5: How do you integrate it into vCenter?
Hey guys, So I'm using Acronis 11.5 and lets just leave it at that *cough* If you were to use this to backup a vCenter-managed cluster would you need to install Acronis 11.5 on the vCenter appliance and use a plugin to connect the software to the vCenter appliance locally or would I need to install the software on the…
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Hyper-V Max Hardware
I apologize if I put this in the wrong area. The question I have is this: I have a server I got on the cheap that has 8 Quad core Opteron CPU's and 64 GB of RAM (Sunfire x4600 M2). If I run Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, will I have access to all my available RAM and CPU's/Cores? Or are you limited to 2 physical CPu's and 32 GB…
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How can i fix my host compliance issue when making a new esxi2 host?
I'm getting about 9 errors when trying to match it up with my esxi1 for my esxi2 host. I am taking the course online at a school, but I can't figure out why its not working. I have followed everything step by step but it doesn't not get fixed, here is what is not getting fixed imgur: the simple image sharer imgur: the…
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Windows NLB Unicast with VMWare and 'Notify Switches'
Hi All, Am just looking for a discussion around implementing Windows NLB in unicast mode within an ESXi cluster. I have read about the topic and am now trying to implement this in my lab as part of my studies. While it works fine, it is not working exactly how I expect it to work given what I have read. Setup * Two ESXi…
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EV42TMAN's VMware VCP Journey
Good Morning Everyone, I'm starting my VMware class for the VCP today. I guess you could call this the official start to the certification. I've been working for an MSP for the last 2 years and a part of that role is supporting VMware Environments. My question at this point is, for the people that have completed the…
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VCP-NV Resources
VMware NSX resources In my preparation for the VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP - NV) exam I will come across resources that will help me in achieving exam succes. To give something back to this community, this thread will link to those resources. Blueprint:…
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VPN Dynamics
Hello everyone! Question, has anybody here used VPN dynamics to do a course like the vSphere:ICM or the View Design? if you have, any issues with with the courses you took? I am looking to do the View Design course online, and they were listed under the VMware Authorized partner training schools. Cheers!
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Hyper-V in Win8 network connection issue.
Hi All, I am trying to use Hyper-V on windows 8 to "play with" different Linux types, however I am not able to configure networking correctly to allow the guests to access internet. I googled the issue and it appears that this is a common issue that people face with Hyper-V but I was not able to fix it after following the…
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ESXI Whitebox
Hi forumers im new here and need some advice (try to googled around but cant seem to find it). im ordering a DIY PC with 32gb ram fitted to cater for my studies (MCSA 2012 and VCP). question is, do i need the following hardware: 1) CPU cooler 2) Graphic Card 3) a high voltage PSU your input is appreciated. Thanks
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Note to Self: Remember to plug iSCSI switch into UPS
I was lucky and was able ot rebuild the array but now I completely understand why you must keep a iSCSI switch and NAS on a UPS for those 2 to 4 second tree limb on power line moments of darkness.... you have a iSCSI switch bounce and you can lose a entire datastore of data..... I went and bought a APC UPS 1000 with…
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Show your home lab / your ESX/ESXi architecture
I wonder if this thread will go down the drain? ;) I promise to give my lab pics when I get home from work!:)
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Where to start learning!
I basically don't know anything about VMware, however the industry is requiring knowledge and experience of it. I would like to learn, about creating a VMware farm, clustering, load distribution, etc. But don't know where to start. Any recommended sites? books? resources?
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Do you understand IOPS?
Now that I've made you come to this thread with the title, I suggest reading the following article to get a deepdive on what this IOPS business is about. Happened to come across it today and thought I'd share it with my TE brethren. Getting The Hang Of IOPS v1.3 | Symantec Connect
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Administration of VMs on a central server
Hello Community! I have a current project running and want to hear some opinions from you.. I have to be honest and must say that I am a total beginner in the field of virtualization. The requirements are written as a User Story. User Story I want to have access to all VMs on a central server. The server saves all VMs. I…
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vExpert 2015 Applications Open
Time to "upgrade" that puppy. vExpert 2015 applications are open | VMTN Blog - VMware Blogs
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VMware vSphere: Optimize and Scale [V5.5] Class... Yes or No?
Looking over the outline for this class and I'm liking what I see. A lot of things covered I actually will be implenting for the first time in the coming months. But having taken the 5.0 ICM course I am a little weary about going through vmware courses again. Has anyone taken the 5.5 optimize and scale class? I have my eye…
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VCP-NV Breakdown
I completed the breakdown of the blueprint. You can find it over on my blog. Hopefully it's helpful to others. VCP-NV Blueprint Breakdown | vWilmo
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csr1000v on vmware workstation
What I want to do is connect a bunch of these routers and have all frames being sent to all other routers. Conceptually, like a hub or trunk links with all vlans. I've gathered that this is called "promiscuous mode", but I could be wrong. Currently my routers' interfaces are getting the MAC addresses that I generated in…
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VCP550 Exam Passed
Took the VCP550 this morning and passed with a 407. Now on to RHCSA!
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Renew your VCP online by 30th Nov 2014
New Delta exam launched for those who need to renew their VCP by March 10th 2015 ...* Based only on new material between the vSphere 5.0/5.1 and vSphere 5.5 exams – you save hours of prep time * Available online – you can take it from any location * Far less expensive – you save money ...…
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Hyper V Replica
So basically i need help on a lab. I want to test Hyper V replica. I only have the one server. What have people done to test it? Have people used VM workstation and nested hyper V VM's in there to then created the replica? Any advice will be appreciated!
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Beginning My Journey to VCP5-DCV (Completion in 7 weeks)
Goal: To achieve the VCP5-DCV in 7 weeks. Material that will be used: 1. 6 week virtualization class at my college. 2. Sybex book by Brian Atkinson 3. CBT Nuggets videos 4. 5 Day online course for exam authorization. I may post my progress here if you guys are interested. For those of you who achieved this, how long did it…
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What study material did you use for your VCP exam?
So far I've only been using the following: 1) Completed the Stanly 5.1 ICM class 2) Completely read VMware vSphere 5.1 Administration 3) Re-reading Scott Lowe's 5.5 book finishing up chapter 5 now 4) used a near replica home-lab of a production network with SAN fabric (not going into detail most of you know it) I'm curious…
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ESXi with SSD help
I currently have two Fujitsu 73gb 10k SAS drives installed on my server using Raid1, I have installed ESXi on there and it works great. What i actually wanted to do is leave it as it is and use an Intel SSD 160gb that i have for my VMs. The issue is how to get this to appear in the datastore. I'm been looking at the Vmware…
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Anyone setup up a Linux tftp server in VM Workstation?
I am trying to set up: www.rocksclusters.org | Rocks Website So far I have the head node set up and now I am trying to boot a client off it. Both the head node and the client (compute node) will run Centos 6.3. The head node see the DHCP request from the compute node, and then the compute node tries to start a tftp session…
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VMware 5.0 Free to Hyper-V Checklist
Hey guys, So tomorrow night I'm doing a conversion for a customer since they can't afford VMware licensing but have a 2012 R2 Enterprise license so were going the Hyper-V approach. It's not what I want to do but it's what we got.... so this is my steps process, if any one knows a better process let me know. 1) I have a…
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Resource Pools: What is a few examples of when this could be used
Hey guys, So I understand what a Resource Pool is but what is the benefits and/or the use of having a Resource Pool vs just having the VM's directly on the esxi host. What would be some examples of it's use?
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Blade Recipe for Cisco UCS
Hello all, Does anybody know if Cisco has a blade recipe for the UCS systems like HP does? Something like this: http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/recipes/HP-VMware-Recipe.pdf Thanks
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VCP5-DVC while doing school
Hi to those of you that have completed this one. I started reading through Mastering VMware vSphere 5.5 and I plan to take one of the available online self-paced courses to meet the classroom requirement. It looks like I'm going to do the Masters in IA at Capital College, I was thinking Summer 2015 originally but I'd…
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Building a lab at home. Thoughts?
I already have a Poweredge 2950. Going to buy two HP Proliants for $195 each: http://www.amazon.com/HP-Proliant-2x2-5GHz-Processors-2x146GB/dp/B0096CMENO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413561022&sr=8-1&keywords=hp+proliant Also a a 6u rack for them:…
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Horizon View 6 Certification
Does anybody know when the VCP510-DT exam will be updated to VCP6-DT or something else? Thanks
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vCenter appliance cannot be reached on network
Hey guys, let me bounce something off your guys head: My vCenter appliance recently can't be reached by anything on the network. The vcenter server @ 192.225.225.9 can ping everything, the gateway, the DNS server, my desktop and everything on the network. it's using two Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit PCI-e cards; they get a IP…
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Connecting Gns3 VM inside ESXI to ESXI Virtual Switch
Hey Guys, Has anyone ever connected gns3 vm thats located on your esxi host and use that as your router?
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Issues with Dell memory on R710
I have 2x8GB modules for my R710, however when booting up i only see 8GB. Could anyone help me with this? The ideal situation would have been utilizing all my memory sets. I have both 4x2GB and 2x8GB, though i will just settle with 16GB if the R710 could reconginaze both 2x8GB and not just one.
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VMware EVO RAIL
Looks like VMware has copied Nutanix and come out with their own converged solution for VMs: "VMware EVO: RAIL™ combines VMware compute, networking, and storage resources into a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance to create a simple, easy to deploy, all-in-one solution offered by our partners. - See more at:…
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Great read about IOPS, latency and other metrics
This has done the rounds on Twitter, I thought I'd link to it here too. Awesome article and in general, an awesome blog: An explanation of IOPS and latency | Recovery Monkey
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Virtualization for IT Auditing: Learning Fundamentals and Earning Certification
What are good ways to learn the fundamentals of virtualization for employment in IT auditing? Any certifications come to mind? I've been told that expert level certification isn't necessary, but it would be nice demonstrate a basic understanding and speak competently with IT professionals that specialize in virtualization.…
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Anybody use ExaGrid?
Shopping for a backup landing zone, anybody have any experience with ExaGrid products? Thanks!
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Nexus 1kv on 2012 R2
Is anybody running the Nexus 1000V using Server 2012 R2? I have the Nexus 1kv in the lab running on ESXi 5.1 but we are looking to run the next set of VMs atop 2012 R2. I don't see as much documentation online, and actually no videos. I was just curious.
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Thinking about pursuing the VCP-DV and have questions
I wanted to go after the VCP-DCV certification and I wanted to know what background/skills should I have before taking the certification? Should I be familiar with Linux? Microsoft Server technologies? I also wanted to know whether the VCA would be worth it as an initial or should I skip ahead.
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Vipr & vCO - anyone worked with it?
Just wondering if the integration with vCO is limited to virtual environments of if this can be bastardised for physical environments as well ? Basically using vCO to change storage presented to physical servers.
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What study material did you use for your VCP exam?
So far I've only been using the following: 1) Completed the Stanly 5.1 ICM class 2) Completely read VMware vSphere 5.1 Administration 3) Re-reading Scote Lowe's 5.5 book finishing up chapter 5 now 4) used a near replica home-lab of a production network with SAN fabric (not going into detail most of you know it) Also Career…
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Cloud Credibility - Is there a TE group ?
[h=2]www.cloudcredibility.com [/h]Is there a group yet or does someone fancy open one ?
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VMWare software?
Where do folks, get the ESXi, VCenter etc.. for practice labs? Thanks..
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VCP-DCV - 5.5 Exam: Linux command line
I have the privilege of working with 3 colleagues at my new employers that are VCP's one is 4.0 and the other two at 5.0 - I'll be the newest one which will help with our VMware Preferred Partner's thingy I guess it needs to be renewed soon or something dunno how that works.... Anyways I noticed that all three of them work…
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ahhh fooie
Hey guys, So I'm reading the Scott Lowe 5.5 book and little do I know the Stanly class of 5.1 will only work with the 5.1 exam. I know 5.5 material, so I got a feeling I read the wrong book Anyone know a good book for 5.1 I can read to learn less stuff, lol!
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VeeamON
Anybody going to VeeamON? I was going to take the VMCE class but it's cheaper for me to take the class at the conference. Seems like a good deal to me.
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vSphere 6.0 RC is now LIVE!
Well I think it is... frankly I didn't feel like signing a huge NDA to test something I can't talk about publicly. Microsoft has very public betas... it seems VMware can't decide if they want you test it or whether it even exists! VMware squeezes out vSphere 6.0 release candidate vSphere 6.0 RC – Still Under NDA? |…
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** 50% off VCP and VCAP exams **
No excuse anymore for not taking these exams! VCP Exams: VFVCP1450 VCAP Exams: VFADV1450 Offer valid from Oct 27 - Dec 19. Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and Korea only. (unable to copy the link for some reason)
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VMworld Europe
Is anyone going? Hanging out at the bloggers desk? If so then I hope to catch up with you over there some time.
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PernixData
Anyone play around with PernixData? Saw their demo recently. They fill out an interesting niche. Lots of interesting possibilities with server side read/write cache.
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VMware classes at Stanly Comm. College
Many of you have expressed an interest in taking a class with us here at SCC. We can offer the VMware class only to individuals and not as part of corporate training. The course is conducted entirely online, including labs, in an asynchronous manner which basically means it is available to students 24/7. Students can study…
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vDS: when to use it and what benefits does it 'really' provide.
Hey guys, So I just read two books on the kindle the past 24 hours and I'm curious of a few things but vDS really interests me. I don't use it on my home-lab (or should I) since I don't fully grasp it's real-world benefits and why it needs to be used. Can one of the VMware Guru's explain please. :)
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Hardware... oh boy
So I find myself suddenly expected to learn ESX for work. I've read through this section of the forums, signed up for the Stanly CC class and ordered the mastering VMWare book by Scott Lowe from recommendations in various threads. Now we get to the hardware. I have 3 unused sun servers at work with ESX installed on them…
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vExpert 2014 Q3 announced.
vExpert 2014 Q3 Announcement | VMTN Blog - VMware Blogs I seemed to have gotten it myself this year \o/
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Reporting-as-a-Service for virtual data centres
Quite neat - still in Beta but I'd be surprised if it isn't catching on :) Sonar by Xtravirt
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Because You guys know your stuff VMWare's version of Tomcat/Apache
So just left a meeting and it was mentioned that VMWare had a custom version of Tomcat and Apache optimised for their environment. Can someone point me to what they are calling this? Is this the Pivotal stuff or something else?
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How many NICs/Subnets do you use on your VMware ESXi hosts?
Is it really an unnecessary best practice to use separate nics and subnets on ESXi VMK port groups? Why do I have to keep fighting to get more nics for my VMK ports? “We run two 10 Gig on all of our ESXi servers and they’re fine.” Yeah well we’ve been doing that for a year and just had two crashes in the last six months…
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VCP510 scheduled
After taking the Stanly CC class back in May and reading Scott Lowe's book and labbing for the past of weeks, I feel like I'm ready to take the exam. So I have officially scheduled the exam for next Tuesday. Do you guys have any last minute tip on the exam? Or even a good practice test that I could take to be sure that I…
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Buy Workstation 10 now, get 11 for free in December
VMware Workstation 11 and VMware Player 7 Pro Announced Today! | VMware Workstation Zealot - VMware Blogs It's a bit later than I expected but I'm sure I can wait! :)
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VCP550 scheduled
I notice that a lot of people are still going down the VCP510 route, presumably because of the higher volume of study material out there. However I'm leading a 5.0 to 5.5 upgrade where I work so I've opted to take the most relevant to my production environment (to be) I'm currently using: Blueprint (!) Mastering 5.5 -…
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How to reorganize my VMware lab?
Hello all! First off sorry for the wall of text! but I want to reorganize my VMware lab... I think I've got a good lab at the moment but the problem with it is I have parts which have been left over from previous labs when it was more difficult to build a whitebox VMware server, this is my current setup: Asus Z87-PRO,…
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NIC card for vmware whitebox
Need a dual NIC card for my ESXi whitebox. I have Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (2x). I couldn't find a NIC here. ESX / ESXi 4.0 Whitebox HCL any thoughts? thank you in advance.
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Stanley CC VCP coupon question
Just curious as to if the voucher you receive after the class has an expiration date, can anyone confirm yay or nay Thanks in advance
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current VCP save 25% off any VCP exam when you test before January 1, 2015
Link: https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=51574&ui=www_cert If you are a current VMware Certified Professional (VCP), you can save 25% off any VCP exam when you test before January 1, 2015. This 25% discount is good towards any of these exams: VMware Certified Professional 5 – Data Center Virtualization Exam…
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Two new VCP discount promotions
25% off for existing VCPs, and 50% off for those attending NSX training: VMware Training and Certification: New VCP exam discounts - for current VCPs and NSX class delegates
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AWS Backup requirement
Hey ! One of our clients is looking for an other than AWS backup and wanted to know his options. He has a small network of about 150 Servers on EC2 and the works. Any suggestions ! Cheers Chanakya
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No class required for VCPs until Feb 2015 with a catch
New NSX certifications and become a new VCP without a VMware class!! | SOSTech Have a valid Cisco CCNA/CCNP? You can take the VCP-NV exam to become a "current" VCP, unlocking all the other VMware certifications w/o a class requirement.
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vCloud Suite Enterprise
Anyone take a close look at what products are available when your company purchase vCloud Suite Enterprise? You get the following:* vSphere * vCenter * vDP * vCO * vCD * vCNS * SRM * vCOPs * Hyperic * vCIN * vCM * vCAC * AppD * Big Data * AppHA That's a lot of stuff. Granted most places won't use vDP and vCD/vCNS are going…
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choice of vmware lab
Is it better to buy a vmware ready server of ebay or should I use my PC below? Does anyone have any recommendation of HP servers. budgest is $300-500 Goal is to study for VCP5. Be able to do run HA,FT, DRS, Vmotion. Setup VMs with AD, Exchange..... 3.60 gigahertz AMD FX-4100 Quad-Core 192 kilobyte primary memory cache 4096…
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VCP-NV, you're mine
After finishing up my CCNP yesterday, I feel my traditional networking knowledge is on the right level now to do something new. I'm jumping in SDN with the VCP-NV. Although it's a relatively new exam, I feel VMware is pushing the right buttons in progressing the software defined datacenter (SD DC). This topic will be a bit…
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Site to Site VM Migration
The restriction was increased from 5ms latency to 100ms latency in vSphere 6.0. Anybody familiar with how they were able to get this done?
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Performing a VMware ESXi 4.1 to Hyper-V conversion this weekend, any pointers?
Hey guys, I'm performing a esxi 4.1 to Hyper-v conversion this weekend since our customer can't afford VMware licensing and there server is the free version of esxi from a previous IT company. To save on costs just going to use the integrated Hyper-v on the 2008 R2 server that is already there; is it my ideal choice…
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Pluralsight VCP 5 videos for VCP5.5?
Hi all, I'm contemplating to buy a monthly subscription over at Pluralsight. I was wondering if I should be watching the VMware vSphere 5 videos to help me prepare for the DCV5.5. I know that it never hurts watching study videos, but since the videos are dated 2011 I'm a bit concerned that I will pick up out dated…
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VCAP numbers in the world ?
Does anybody know how many VCAPs there are in the world? All I could find was this tweet but no other corroborating evidence as to whether it's accurate or not... or what the current figure is. Is there an official site for VCAPs like vExperts or no? https://twitter.com/vmstan/status/454688721711792130 Thanks!
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SAN RAM Cacheing
For some reason I am just now discovering this. Ran across this guys before and after RAM cache IOPS screens and was blown away. I am very eager to incorporate this into my production SAN but definitely want to fully understand whats going on first and if there are any risks. Is anyone else using SSD's to cache in their…
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What I've learned
Want to feel like you know absolutely nothing about virtualization? Chat with few VCDX for a while.
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VMware product updates release today including vSphere ESXi 5.5 update 2
I'm not going to post all the links but here is the vSphere ESXi 5.5 update 2 release notes: https://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere5/doc/vsphere-vcenter-server-55u2-release-notes.html What is your testing process? How soon does everyone plan to upgrade their production systems?
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Vcp-nv
Considering I just finished up the CCNP R&S, I am looking to new horizons where more of my interests lie (Virtualization and cloud). I was informed from someone on this forum today about NSX and decided to look into it myself. While I am more interested in getting more familiar with certain technologies inside the R&S…
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VCP-Cloud or VCP-DT
Which of these 2 are the most demanding in the industry today? Looking to switch to a more virtual environment.
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Mastering Vsphere 5.5
So I finished this in 9-10 days, and must say it was awesome, this is probably the best technical book I have ever read. I am now offically a Scott Lowe fan, someone with five or more years VMware experience could easily learn some things from this book.
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Suggestions for VCP 510 classes that service Minnesota? Got kind of screwed by VMware
So originally I was told via our business partner that the class requirement would be waived, and all I had to do was pass the exam and I would receive certification. After the certification didn't show up in my portal for a few days, I contacted VMware, and they informed me that my MSP is not at a partner level where we…
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VCP5.5 Storage Topics
Hi all, I'm studying for the VCP5.5 and my weakest area is storage, by far. I have never had anything to do with the storage side of things. It always went to "the storage guy" :) . What would you recommend on books or video tutorials to get a basic understanding of storage but a good enough understanding for the VCP5.5?…
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Ghetto Home-based vCenter Appliance
Hi guys, As some of you guys know I have a Dual R610 cluster at home and I'm using a old HP Procurve 2848 switch as the iSCSI [it supports Jumbo Frames](for QNAP TS-420 NAS)and vMotion switch but for vCenter I was curious how I'd go about using vCenter for the cluster. Can I use vCenter in the ESXi cluster on one of the…
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Passed VCP5 exam today, advice for future candidates
So I went at it again, got almost an entirely new pool of questions, that were less scenario oriented which was such a blessing. A piece of advice I would give for any exam as I've seen it across the board, is to watch your acronyms between the possible answers and the question being asked, and be very aware of…
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Avoiding European VAT on VMware certifications!
Hello all, Just wanted to give a heads up to those in Europe paying for their own exams that you can avoid VAT on your VMware VCP & VCAP certifications! As far as I can see US/Canada/Australia don't charge VAT (sales tax) on these exams, however in Europe we do. Obviously VAT adds a minimum of 20% to your purchase price of…
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Stanley CC Class March - May 2014
Hi All; I got my email that my name has come up on the wait list for the March - May 2014 VMware Vsphere class. I had to fill out a google doc from by Friday. I will get an email within 1 - 2 weeks to go online and submit payment for the course. I recall when I put my name on the wait list last year; there were…
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HP Proliant DL160 SSD Drive install question
I am probably missing something very obvious but I would like to connect a SSD drive to the server to install virtual machines on . Can anyone direct me to the type of connector I would need to attach a regular SSD drive to the server. I expected to the tray to have a normal SATA connection but I was wrong. Sorry for the…
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fiber channel at home?
I have a couple of qlogic fiber channel cards. Could I put one in my workstation, and another in a NAS box and have the NAS present storage over the FC? If I can't do FC, what's the best way to go? iSCSI? I've got multiple NICs (gigE) in each computer, so I could always bond/aggregate those. My workstation is Windows 8,…
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How much electricity does Hp Prolaint dl160 cost a month?
Hey guys, Just wondering how much a cost a month. Trying to find out if its worth the cost lol... thanks ahead of time.
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Home Lab Build
Hello all, I'd like to build a server that I can use 3 to 5 VMs (maybe more but seems unlikely) on. Primary purpose is to lab/test. I don't really know where to start in terms of hardware; ideally I'd like it to be quiet and consume a minimal amount of power and I'd like the OS to be Win 2012 R2 (I'd start with Hyper-V but…