VMware VCP 2020 vSphere 7 Edition Exam Prep Guide (pt.1)

Introduction Hello again. My 2019 VCP Study Guide was well received, so, to help the community further, I decided to embark on another exam study guide with vSphere 7. This guide is exciting for me to write due to the many new things I'll get to learn myself, and I...
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Creating a VI (Virtual Infrastructure) Cluster in VCF 4.0.1.1

I originally wanted to learn more about VMware Cloud Foundations but never had the time to. I recently (ahem COVID) found extra time to try new things and learn with my home lab. For the setup, I used the VMware Lab Constructor (downloaded here) to create VCF. After...
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VMware Cloud Foundations 4.0.1: Problems with SDDC Manager refreshing

I've been doing some studying on VMware Cloud Foundations 4.0.1 and have it running in my lab. It seems a bit finicky at times I've noticed. One of the issues I've run into so far is that when I added 3 more hosts, everything seemed to be fine. I then wanted to add a...
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VCP 2019 Study Guide in PDF format

VCP-2019-Study-Guide-1Download Here is my full study guide in entirety for download. Feel free to let me know if there is something that needs correction etc. Hope this helps....
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VCP 2019 Study Guide Section 7 (Final Section)

Section 7 – Administrative and Operational Tasks in a VMware vSphere Solution Objective 7.1 – Manage virtual networking I've gone over virtual networking a bit already. But there are two basic types of switches to manage in vSphere. Virtual Standard Switches and...
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VCP 2019 Study Guide Section 5

Section 5 – Performance-tuning and Optimizing a VMware vSphere Solution Objective 5.1 – Determine effective snapshot use cases Many companies use the term snapshot. There are numerous definitions for snapshots that vary on the company. We should first define what...
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VCP 2019 Study Guide – Section 2

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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VCP 2019 Study Guide -Section 1

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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Can you upgrade and Upsize your VCSA?

While brainstorming about one of our labs, the question was raised on whether you can upsize your VCSA while upgrading to a newer version. Specifically, from 6.5u2 to 6.7U1 (build 8815520 to 11726888). We wanted to upgrade to the latest version but we also believe we...
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VMworld 2018 post-summary

Wow, so there was a ton of activity that happened last week. VMworld 2018 US edition has now passed and was amazing. This particular one was pretty sweet for me as this marked a number of firsts for me. While I've been before, this is the first time I've played a role...
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