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06 July

VCAP-DCA Objective 2.4 – Administer vNetwork Distributed Switch Settings

Written by Marco

Knowledge Explain relationship between vDS and logical vSSes Skills and Abilities Understand the use of command line tools to configure appropriate vDS settings on an ESX/ESXi host Determine use cases for and apply Port Binding settings Configure Live Port...

10 June

VCAP-DCA Objective 2.3 – Deploy and Maintain Scalable Virtual Networking

Written by Marco

Knowledge Identify VMware NIC Teaming policies Identify common network protocols Skills and Abilities Understand the NIC Teaming failover types and related physical network settings Determine and apply Failover settings Configure explicit failover to conform with VMware best practices Configure...

12 March

VCAP-DCA Objective 2.2 – Configure and Maintain VLANs, PVLANs and VLAN Settings

Written by Marco

Knowledge Identify types of VLANs and PVLANs Skills and Abilities Determine use cases for and configure VLAN Trunking Determine use cases for and configure PVLANs Use command line tools to troubleshoot and identify VLAN configurations Tools vSphere Command-Line Interface...

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02 March

VCAP-DCA Objective 2.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Virtual Networks

Written by Marco

Knowledge Identify common virtual switch configurations Skills and Abilities Determine use cases for and apply IPv6 Configure NetQueue Configure SNMP Determine use cases for and apply VMware DirectPath I/O Migrate a vSS network to a Hybrid or Full vDS...

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09 February

VCAP-DCA Objective 1.3 – Configure and Manage Complex Multipathing and PSA Plug-ins

Written by Marco

Knowledge Explain the Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) layout Skills and Abilities Install and Configure PSA plug-ins Understand different multipathing policy functionalities Perform command line configuration of multipathing options Change a multipath policy Configure Software iSCSI port binding Tools vSphere...

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06 February

VCAP-DCA Objective 1.2 – Manage Storage Capacity in a vSphere Environment

Written by Marco

Knowledge Identify storage provisioning methods Identify available storage monitoring tools, metrics and alarms Skills and Abilities Apply space utilization data to manage storage resources Provision and manage storage resources according to Virtual Machine requirements Understand interactions between virtual storage...

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27 January

VCAP-DCA Objective 1.1 – Implement and Manage Complex Storage Solutions

Written by Marco

Knowledge Identify RAID levels Identify supported HBA types Identify virtual disk format types Skills and Abilities Determine use cases for and configure VMware DirectPath I/O Determine requirements for and configure NPIV Determine appropriate RAID level for various Virtual Machine...

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13 January

ESX and ESXi logfile locations

Written by Marco

Location of ESX log files You can see ESX logs: From the Service Console From the vSphere Client connected directly to the ESX host (click Home > Administration > System Logs) From the VMware Infrastructure Client connected directly to...

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01 December

Best practices for virtual machine snapshots in the VMware environment

Written by Marco

After troubleshooting some problems with snapshots I ran in to an article on the VMware Knowledge base with some good info. See document ID 1025279 at http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1025279 This is the article. Purpose This article provides best practice information for snapshots. It...

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21 October

Renaming a virtual machine and its files

Written by Marco

When I was renaming some virtual machines in my test lab, I discovered that the file names are not renamed with the virtual machine. In the future this may be causing some problems so I was looking for a...

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