Good day #vCommunity! Shane (@coolsport00) here to provide you all with an updated VCP6.5-DCV Study Guide to my previous v6 Guide (see: here). There are several changes in the v6.5 Exam Blueprint from v6, notably understanding Migration to VCSA (Section 4.3), VCSA HA (Section 9.2), & Section 10.3 no longer being covered on the exam.
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Cheers #vBrownBag Community! Shane (aka @coolsport00) here to provide a resource to help in your VCP6-DCV studies. Several folks have asked if I would provide my Study Guide to help in their studies. And, since there have been several changes to the VCP6-DCV Blueprint since some of the others that were created last year, I thought
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You all know what I’m talking about. Haven’t you ever attempted some operation on a vSphere VM – VMotion, disk consolidation, etc. and received a vCenter error stating the operation failed because of some lock on the VM’s vmdk? After receiving an email from my backup software (Veeam) that one of my VMs needed disk
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Sorry for the post delay on this. But, here it is.. the 2nd part of the ICND series Study Guide. As with the 1st post, the core purpose behind these network exams is to help you better understand the concepts involved to achieve your VCP-NV (NSX). This exam (ICND2) is needed to complete the requirements
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So, this has been quite a journey for me. If any of you are like me, you’ve avoided anything related to Networking, & especially Networking certifications like the plague. At work, if any issue networking related surfaced, I gladly pawned it off to the “networking guy”. With the boundaries between layers of the infrastructure stack
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Cheers! Today I sat & passed the VCP5-DT exam. DT is a cert I’ve been procrastinating in attaining, so I’m glad I finally hunkered down & got it out of the way. As with other VCP-level exams, the DT has 85 questions & you have 90 minutes to finish. An additional 15 minutes is allotted
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G’day – @coolsport00 here sharing my recent process in studying for the VCP-IaaS exam, which I sat and thankfully passed yesterday afternoon. As a matter of fact, I achieved the highest score of any exam I’ve taken, VMware or otherwise. To start off, let me share the resources I used, and indeed what I recommend
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BACKGROUND Upon arriving at my new organization the end of February of this year, a co-worker had already migrated most of our virtual infrastructure to vSphere 5.1, utilizing SQL 2012 as the vCenter Server database. In doing so, they noticed some “bugginess” with the infrastructure – unable to log in using the ‘thick’ Client, the Performance tab →
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D’oh! You just created a custom-based ESXi Install image with all the drivers and plug-ins then found out you missed a driver. Or, a new and very cool plug-in was just released by a vendor & you want to try it out. What is the best way to get this installed? Well, if you don’t
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There are a lot of components to VMware View that are really cool features. One of the coolest in my opinion is the ability to set up Location-Based Printing based on where the client device is located. End users can use a workstation, thick client, or zero client Client device to connect to VM Desktops.
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As with my previous post for the DCD, the PDF below is a compilation of notes I took while studying for the VCAP5-DCA exam. It covers each section of the Blueprint provided by VMware. In addition to my own studies, there are several great resources in the Community that I used & I reference those
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In the PDF below is a compilation of notes I took while studying for the VCAP5-DCD exam. It covers each section of the Blueprint provided by VMware. If there is anything else you would like to see added, let me know & I’ll be more than happy to modify the document. Hope it helps in
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