Autolab Home Lab Build
AutoLab is a set VM shells and pre-configure open source VMs that provides a complete VMware lab environment.
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DCA
vBrownBag – VCAP5-DCA Blueprint Objective 1.2 and 1.3
Earlier this week I presented for the vBrownBag VCAP5-DCA Blueprint Objectives 1.2 and 1.3.
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Masking LUN Being Used as HA Heartbeat Datastore
Last night I was working through a couple of the storage objectives for the VCAP5-DCA. One of the required skills of Objective 1.1 on the blueprint is to understand and apply LUN masking.
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vSphere 5 Network Coredump Collector
Since Auto Deploy allows for the creation fo diskless/stateless hosts there is a need to have a network service to store core dumps so that diagnostic information can be collected for support in the event your host crashes (PSOD).
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vSphere Auto Deploy – Host Profiles and Answer Files
The new Auto Deployed ESXi host is up and running but now configurations need to be applied to add the necessary network settings, storage configurations, and other settings so the host can become a functioning part of the virtual infrastructure.
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vSphere Auto Deploy – Image Profile and Booting ESXi
The VCAP5-DCA Blueprint has objectives on working with ESXi Image Profiles and configuring VMware Auto Deploy which are both new features that were released with vSphere 5.
Read morevSphere 5 host stops sending syslog messages
I had some maintenance to do on my central syslog server and the server was down for about 30 minutes
Read moreCreating a Scheduled Tasks to Change VM Resource Settings
Let’s say there is a VM, or a Resource Pool with several VMs, that most of the time just sits
Read moreSaving a custom resxtop configuration
The resxtop utility can be run from the vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). The resxtop utility is used to monitor CPU,
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