Like the last several posts, this one hails from the storage section of the Enterprise Admin Blueprint. The Enterprise Admin exam is one of the several requirements to becoming a VCDX. As I go down this path, I hope to share with you some of my exam prep in the hope that it will help [...]
Like the last post, this one also hails from objective 1.1 of the VCDX Blueprint, and is part of my exam prep.
Task:
Configure an NFS Datastore using command line tools.
Solution:
[root@ProfessionalVMware root]# esxcfg-nas esxcfg-nas <options> [<label>] -a|–add Add a new NASc filesystem to /vmfs volumes. [...]
This one is taken from the first objective in the VMware Enterprise Admin Exam Blueprint. Specifically from the skills section:
- Perform advanced multi-pathing configuration – Configure multi-pathing policy — Configure round-robin behavior using command-line tools
After logging into the host via SSH, and getting to root, this can be done with [...]
While this actually requires no special settings, I figure it’s worth noting, if for nothing more than to state that in VMware Fusion 3, ESX 3.5 requires no additional settings to be operational. Basically it works as follows:
Download the ESX ISO (vmware.com/download/vi)
In VMware Fusion create a new virtual machine, choosing said ISO: [...]
Some folks in the community have expressed an interest in expanding my quazi regular VCP brown bags into some additional brown bags to support those seeking their VCDX, starting with the Enterprise Admin exam. This post then, is to serve two functions:
1) Is there interest? – Basically, If I built it, would y’all come?
2) Content [...]
Perhaps they’re not new, exactly. They are new to me, however. They’re also good enough that you should be reading them as well! With that said, onto the blogs!
VMDEV.info – http://www.vmdev.info/ This is put together by Keshav Attrey, a software dev with VMware. The blog concentrates on the [...]
Along with the last Fusion related post, this post also takes a slight tangent from our normal ESX/vSphere centric coverage to document something for myself that others may indeed also find useful.
Setting the story: Thanks to some awesome folks at work, I recently acquired a MacBook Pro with VMware Fusion installed. While awesome (Both the [...]
Note: This is a brief story where I was forced to sit back and reflect on just how cool this Virtualization stuff really is. Please feel free to disregard however.
Normally I don’t write about the VMware Workstation or hosted products. It just doesn’t happen to be where I spend most of my day. Mind, [...]
Ever have to log into a the console of an ESX VM… over a slow connection? Then you’ll know all about the character repeat that comes along with that. If you haven’t experienced this… consider yourself lucky. It is especially interesting when trying to type passwords.
So how do you defeat this?
You set the “keyboard.typematciMinDelay” value [...]
Time is critical.
In VMs this criticality is even more pronounced. Time slips… CPU instructions go askew, and things get weird. That said, there are situations when you may wish to disable the built in VMware Tools Time sync service… completely. What do I mean by completely? Well, even with the tools time sync set to [...]
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