kalebksp wrote: » The Mastering book is excellent, I haven't read the security one but have been meaning to. Read the books, try to strike up a conversation with the people that mange your VM environment so you can understand how it's setup, and maybe test it out a little at home. You can try out ESX/ESXi in Workstation 7.
knwminus wrote: » On the one hand, I don't want him to think I want to take his job
kalebksp wrote: » Having only one person understand an environment is a horrible business practice. It's the human equivalent of a single point of failure, and it's generally a lot harder to replace a person than a piece of equipment. You and the other admin should try to share as much information as possible, both verbally and in written documentation. If this isn't a current practice start doing it yourself, write documentation about everything you setup and all the systems you work with.
knwminus wrote: » Amazon.com: VMware vSphere and Virtual Infrastructure Security: Securing the Virtual Environment (9780137158003): Edward….
down77 wrote: » While books are a great source of learning material, also make sure you keep up with someof the industry blogs to stay on top of the changes and learn some potentially undocumented tips and tricks along the way. Here is a great "launch pad" of sites to get you started.vLaunchPad I'm actually using a number of the more reputable blogs as part of my study material for the VCAP (will be required for work).
xmalachi wrote: » Are these books a pretty good introduction to vSphere? I have an interest in beginning to learn about the technologies but I don't currently work with them.
knwminus wrote: » Well the one books title is Mastering Vsphere so my uneducated guess would be yes. Since I posted this I have talked with my coworker and he said that book is pretty good.
xmalachi wrote: » Appreciate the response. I just asked my Dad about the book and he said without a doubt. I guess I'll have to borrow it from him and give it a read.
knwminus wrote: » How much are you going to be working with VMware?
xmalachi wrote: » I don't work with it at all currently but I would hope to in the future. I'd like to know a little about it though so mostly right now it is just expressing interest in something that I could work with in the future. Virtualization is one of those growing technologies that I think we are all bound to work with. It has been discussed at my current place of employment but I think it is very unlikely that we implement it.
knwminus wrote: » On my weekend job I get to clone machines, work with a few vms, and a little else. I am questioning if I should even bother to put this on my resume. I might just to put it as a keyword. On my weekday job I do less as our other admin takes care of that. I am mostly interested in it from a security aspect and the virtual switching and so on. I might try to position myself to do more in the coming months.
knwminus wrote: » Well I am now putting up an ESX box at my main job for IDS/IPS (alienvault), MRTG and whatever else I want to put up. This should be good experience.
knwminus wrote: » Yep. I honestly think that I might want to do the VCP in the future. Since virtualization is "the future", having a good understanding of it would be excellent for a wannabe infosec tech. There aren't any partner schools around, maybe I could get my job to pay for it OR I might even out of pocket it, if I think its worth it.
xmalachi wrote: » Honestly, if there was a community college around me that offered the VCP courses I would do it in a second. The reality for me right now is that I don't have a job that would ever foot the bill for it right now. Maybe I a future employer would be more willing I guess. I also don't ever see myself wanting to foot the bill for it.
knwminus wrote: » So I have about 232 gb in my data store and I am adding a few isos to it, along with VMs and such. I guess this is why people store Isos on local storage and not the San(?). I can see how this would fill out a lot of space very quickly.
MentholMoose wrote: » A datastore on a SAN or NAS is preferred for ISOs since with a local datastore you could only access the ISOs from that particular host. It's not a problem if you have one host, but with several, dozens, or even hundreds of hosts it would not be practical.
