vSphere 5 - What's New (and relevant for the VCP 5) (Part 1)

Posted on 13 Nov 2011

vSphere 5 has been available for a couple of months now so now is an ideal time to look at upgrading your infrastructure and also to start the upgrade path for the VCP 4s out there to the VCP5.  This is by no means a complete study guide, rather an introduction into the various new features and components of vSphere 5 over and above what was already available in vSphere 4.  To really understand all the new features of vSphere 5 you need to work with it, so if you don’t have one already, go build a home lab.  

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VCAP-DCA - My Experience

Posted on 16 Sep 2011

I recently sat the VCAP-DCA exam having spent the last couple of months with my head in the books preparing for the exam.

I am very pleased to announce that I passed the exam.

I have been on the ‘certification road’ for about 8 years now, and during that time each exam I have taken has got progressively harder and harder, and this exam, the VCAP4-DCA exam is the hardest yet.  However given time and practice it is something that is achievable to any budding virtualisation geek!

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Distributed Virtual Switch Guide

Posted on 16 Jul 2011

The vNetwork distributed switch is a vCenter Server managed entity.  It is designed to create a consistent switch configuration across every host in the datacentre. It allows port groups and individual port settings and statistics to migrate between ESX(i) hosts in a datacentre, the uses of private VLAN’s (PVLAN) and third party deployment.

vCenter Server stores the state of distributed ports (dvports) in the vCenter Server database.  What this means is that the networking statistics, policies and settings migrate with the virtual machine when it is moved from host to host.

The distributed virtual switch is a feature available to enterprise plus license holders with vSphere 4.0 or higher.

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