VCP510 go time
So I signed up for the test today. Figured I had been sitting around not doing anything so I’d get it on the calendar in order to light the proverbial ‘fire underneath me’. I found a couple sites...
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Deploying ESXi with vSphere Auto Deploy
The auto deploy function of Sphere allows you to load a new ESXi host from scratch over the network. There are a couple of main pieces that need to be installed to make this work so let’s get those...
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Auto Deploy and Host Profiles
In the last post we got a VM to auto deploy. In this post, we’ll wrap up that config (clean it up) and talk about host profiles. But first, lets talk about use case. Auto deploy is a neat feature,...
View ArticleVCP Question round up numero 1
Question: What is the connection type of the primary VLAN in a Private VLAN? Not sure how I got this one wrong but I guess I did. The primary VLAN of the Private VLAN is promiscuous. That is, it can...
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VCP – vSphere Networking standard vSwitches
I’m not going to cover the basics in this post so I’m going to assume you know about port-groups, vmnics (why they are called vmnics is something that bothers me to this day. vmnics = physical NICs =...
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VCP – vSphere Distributed switches
So now that we have a good handle on the standard switches, lets look at distributed switches. A distributed switch is one that’s managed at the vCenter level and propagates across all hosts. This...
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VCP – iSCSI MPIO
One of the common misconceptions about iSCSI is the difference between NIC teaming and MPIO. MPIO stands for Multi Path Input/Output (or at least I think it does) and is a protocol designed to manage...
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VCP – Disk space
In my next post, I’m going to install VUM (VM update manager) and it’s going to take more space than I have available on the C drive of my vCenter server. So, what I need to do is extend the C drive...
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VCP – VMware update Manager (VUM)
VUM is a tool that can be used to keep the VMware components of both hosts as well as VMs up to date. It provides a means and process to check for compliance of items against predefined baselines. To...
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VCP – EVC
EVC ,or enhanced vMotion Compatibility, is a feature that ensure vMotion capability within a cluster. That is, you could possibly have a cluster that contains a mixed batch of servers. Some that have...
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