Section 4 – Installing, Configuring, and Setting Up a VMware vSphere Solution
Objective 4.1 – Understand basic log output from vSphere products
VMware has come a long way from when I started troubleshooting their products. Their logs have gotten easier to get...
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Section 2 – VMware Products and Solutions
Objective 2.1 – Describe vSphere integration with other VMware products
VMware has just a few products on the market (/sarcasm), and they show no letup in acquiring other companies and expanding to new technologies. One...
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It's been a while since I've done one of these. I did one for the VCP 6.0 and kind of miss it. I've decided to take a little different approach this time. I'm going to actually write it completely up as a single document and then slowly leak it out on my blog but also...
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So I have skipped a few sections dealing with troubleshooting. I may circle back around and get to them if I can but I am shooting to try to get all the other stuff done. Besides, I am sure if you have gotten this far – you have had at least a couple problems and...
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Welcome back to another version of Mike's VMware show! Up for today, we are going to discuss Backups and Replication. In specific, the topics we are going to cover are:
Identify snapshot requirements
Identify VMware Data Protection...
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Back again with a new objective. This time we are going to go over Resource Pools. Over the course of the blog post we will cover the following points.
Describe the Resource Pool hierarchy
Define the Expandable Reservation parameter
Describe vFlash...
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To wrap up upgrade processes and things, we are going to go over vCenter Upgrades. The following points will be covered:
Identify steps required to upgrade a vSphere implementation
Identify upgrade requirements for vCenter
Upgrade vCenter Server...
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Here we are again, starting Objective 4.1. The following points will be covered:
Identify upgrade requirements for ESXi hosts
Upgrade a vSphere Distributed Switch
Upgrade Virtual Machine hardware
Upgrade an ESXi host using vCenter Update Manager
Stage...
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Moving on to our last sub point in the Storage Objectives, we are going to cover Storage I/O Control. We will cover the following:
Enable/Disable Storage I/O Control
Configure/Manage Storage I/O Control
Monitor Storage I/O Control
Enable /...
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Continuing along our Storage Objectives, we now are going to cover VMFS and NFS datastores and our mastery of them. We will cover in this objective:
Identify VMFS and NFS Datastore properties
Identify VMFS5 capabilities
Create/Rename/Delete/Unmount a...
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