vHersey – VCDX Two to the Seventh Power (#128) – Page 20 – Hyperconverged, Virtualization, VMware, Citrix, Datacenter Administration, and more…

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May 24, 2012 Hersey

vBrownBag VCAP5-DCA Objective 9

I presented on the VCAP5-DCA Objective 9 – Perform Advanced vSphere Installation and Configurations for the ProfessionalVMware.com vBrownBag on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. The objective covers VMware Image Builder and VMware Auto Deploy.

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May 16, 2012 Hersey

Carolina VMUG Summit 2012

A month or so ago I received an email from VMUG announcing some upcoming events one of these was the Caroline VMUG Summit 2012 in Charlotte, NC on May 15. I decided to make plans to drive down for the conference.

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May 2, 2012 Hersey

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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May 1, 2012 Hersey

My VMware iPhone App

It has been a couple of weeks now since the launch of the new My VMware portal. With the release of My VMware an iPhone/iPad App has also been released to allow access to your account and licensing information.

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April 27, 2012 Hersey

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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April 25, 2012 Hersey

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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April 24, 2012 Hersey

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.

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April 18, 2012 Hersey

oneVirt Viewer Version 1.4.0 Released

oneVirt Viewer is a handy “cross platform” configuration data collection tool for vSphere 4 and 5. It is written in Java and can be used on Windows, Mac, and Linux.