Following on from my recent post on the VCP-NV certification objectives, I thought the best place to start would be to provide links to the VMware NSX download and supporting…
I’ve started this post as a way to track any ESXi CLI tips, tricks/shortcuts that I think may be useful for the VCAP-DCA exam, though should also be of use…
I’ve posted a number of articles on vMA administration in the course of writing about the VCAP5-DCA objectives, including information on configuring fast path authentication, however I didn’t spend a…
Occasionally you may have need to kill a virtual machine that has become ‘stuck’. I’ve see this a number of times when a VM has become stuck after sending it…
I’ve created some ESXTOP flashcards previously, which had some positive feedback, so in the same vein, this post will look at presenting virtual machine configuration maximums as flashcards for those…
ESXi 5.5 has a new CLI tool for capturing network traffic, which can be used instead of tcpdump-uw. The new tool, pckcap-uw, can capture traffic from uplinks, virtual ports, and…
Following on from writing about the VCAP5-DCA objectives, I intend to cover a few scenarios based on some of those objectives, particularly those that I feel the need to go…
I’ve written about deploying ESXi hosts using AutoDeploy whilst covering the VCAP5-DCA objectives, but I didn’t go into stateful deployments or stateless caching. By default, a host provisioned using AutoDeploy…
This will be a quick post to address the VCAP5-DCA objective of using esxtop/resxtop and vscsiStats to identify storage performance issues on an ESXi host environment. I covered both of…
In the course of writing about VCAP-DCA objectives, I’ve written previously about working with ESXi log files. In terms of security the main ESXi log files to be aware of,…