VCP6-NV Today

Yay!! Passed 2V0-641 exam day. Officially VCP6-NV Today. NSX NSX NSX :)

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VMware VCAP5-DCA Passed

Today I sat on the exam for VCAP5-DCA. Before the exam, I was googling the Internet for the experience and everyone says time management is the main issue. You know what? They all are right! It was 23 questions for 180 minutes.

I was struggling to answer the questions to the last seconds!

I was skipping the questions that I thought was going to take a while and marked the question number on the plastic paper provided and went back to them later. I did the easy one first until the end and got back to the question numbers I marked on the paper.

The blueprint spots on, I was asked about:

• Distributed vSwitch, Static vSwitch
• RESXTOP
• vCO
• PowerCLI
• HA
• DRS
• SNMP
• SATP
• SSL Certificate
• Traffic Blocking
• SSO
• Users, Groups and Roles
• Performance Graphs
• vSphere Replication
• and much more :)

To be honest, it was stressing exam. You were given scenario and you need to follow the instruction. The stress bit for me is that after you do it, you are not sure whether or not you did it correctly. 

I finished the test at 4PM and was told that it is going to take 15 business days to get the result. I got the email result at 4:30PM! and I PASSED!!! with the score 403

VMware VCP550D Passed

Sat on the online exam for VCP550D and passed!

VCAP5-DCA Study Guide

I have been studying for this VMware VCAP5-DCA exam for the last 2 months. This exam is for vSphere 5.5.

One of the best study guides is to watch Jason Nash's VMware vSphere Optimize & Scale

Then I read the VCAP5-DCA Official Cert Guide:

The last one is to do the VMware Hands On Lab which is the best for you to use it for lab and try some of practice concepts.

VMware vCenter Operations Manager

Just been trained on VMware vCOPS recently and below is the "OO" style of objects relationship

Officially VCP 5 Today!

Just passed VCP510 exam today, yay!
Pretty difficult compare to the other exams

 

ESXi 5 Install Offline Bundle

To install the ESXi 5 host with the Offline Bundle:

• Download the ISO file from VMware
• Extract the ISO file and find the offline-bundle ZIP file
• SCP this ZIP file to the ESXi host (e.g. /tmp/driver.zip)
  
• Run the following command

esxcli software vib install -d /tmp/offline-bundle.zip

Reboot

VMware Workstation Network Issue

If you try to copy a large file from within the VM to another machine on the network and get the following error: Specified Network is no longer available, then add the following line to your VM's vmx file:

ethernet0.txbw.limit=100000
ethernet0.rxbw.limit=100000

VCP VI3

is now officially VCP VI3... Harder that I thought - wondering what is next?

ESX Change Service Console IP Address

Delete existing VSWIF0:

esxcfg-vswif -d vswif0

Add a new one:

esxcfg-vswif -a vswif0 -p Service\ Console -i 10.1.1.1 -n 255.255.255.0 -b 10.1.1.255

Note: -i is the IP address, -n is the subnet and -b is the broadcast address

If you need to change the default gateway, edit the:

/etc/sysconfig/network

Dont forget to change the /etc/hosts file as well

reboot!

Virtualization Forum 2007

Today, I went to this VMware forum at Darling Harbour.

A lot of talk about Green technology and how hardware vendors with VMWare can reduce the CO2 emission by consolidating servers to Virtual infrastructure.

They were talking about VDI as well - Virtual Desktop Infrastructure - with thin clients, which is cool for large enterprise company with thousands of client PCs.

IBM was talking about their System X Servers which is pretty impressive!

some photos: