Tag Archives: VCDX

VCDX Brown Bag #2 – Storage!

Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends… we’re so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
It’s time again for the next VCDX Brown Bag. This one will focus around the storage requirement of the VMware Enterprise Admin exam. To prep, please pull down and review the Enterprise Admin Blueprint from here.
The [...]

ESX 3.5 Virtual Switches From the CLI (esxcfg-vswitch) – VCDX Prep

Moving along with our series of esxcfg & VCDX related series of posts, we come to esxcfg-vswitch. The example we’ll work with here has us setting up a new virtual switch, adding an uplink NIC, adding a port group with VLAN 393, and changing the MTU. Ready? Here we go:

Add the vSwitch: [...]

What NICs Do I Have? – esxcfg-nics – VCDX Prep

As a plethora of my last posts suggest, I am spinning up study towards my VCDX. My first stop on that journey will be with the Enterprise Admin exam. Along the way I hope to share bits that I learn, review, and otherwise enjoy about the process. Today that is figuring out all manner of [...]

esxcfg-module – Managing Modules – VCDX Prep

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 [...]

Manage VMFS File Systems Using the CLI – VCDX Prep

Seems this is becoming part of a series. Like the last few posts, this one was also produced from objective 1.1 of the VCDX Blueprint, and is part of my exam prep.
Task:
Manage VMFS file systems using command line tools.
Solution:
[root@ProfessionalVMware root]# vmkfstools No valid command specified
OPTIONS FOR FILE SYSTEMS: [...]

Configure an NFS Datastore From the CLI – VCDX Prep

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.                          [...]

Setting the ESX 3.5 Multi-Pathing Policy From the CLI

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 [...]

VCDX – Enterprise Admin Brown Bag the First – The CLI

Following up on the interest from our last post, Tom Howarth and I will be running the first of what should become a series of VCDX Enterprise Admin Brown Bag sessions. The topic this week will be the CLI.
We’re going to give this a shot with DimDim, and can accept a total of 25 folks. [...]

Awesome VMware Training Resource

I’ve been following Scott Vessey’s VMware Training Blog for a while now, and have overall been impressed with the content he’s managed to pump out. To that end, Scott has complied some of his content, as well as some new content into a new site called Think Virtually.
For anyone training for the VCP, VCDX or [...]

VCDX Prep Materials

Duncan at Yellow-Bricks has posted an excellent guide to some resources he used to help prep for the VCDX exam. Go check it out!