Base on my previous post, this would be another post in my VCAP-DCA Preparation series (DCAS). It’s about storage and how to add new storage (iSCSI) to the hosts. Condition: There is two ESXi 4.1 hosts with one NIC, one vSwitch (vSwitch0) and two VMKernel port (vmk0 & vmk1) and both have their local datastores […]
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DCAS-#001 (Lab Preparation … Network)
Again, I have new goal and I want to rearrange my home lab to meet the requirements for it. This time my goal is “VCAP4-DCA” certification and I have to use different kind of tools for preparation. As one of my PC stop working (one of my two Physical host – whitebox), I have to […]
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Mixture …
Well, the title may not be clear but this post is about different things. First of all (The important thing for me), yesterday I got the confirmation from “Certification Team” in VMware that I’m eligible to take the next exam as I meet all requirements for it. [I think VCP4 is enough ;)] Anyway, as […]
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Project #01 (P.03)
In my current project, customer got Windows server 2003 x86 with database on MS SQL server 2000 which is using by one application and one web server. The web server it self running on windows server 2003 as well and the main portal is written by ASP .net I talked with customer and the application/portal […]
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Project #01 (P.02)
Hi, It’s another post about my personal project which I mention before (link). Up to now we have installed 12 VMs (all have Microsoft Windows 2008 as guest OS, except one) on new server and trying to completing their configuration before start migration of old software, portal and database to new infrastructure. Our AD/DNS installed […]
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NFS on Windows Server 2008 R2
As usual I have reconfigured my home lab and again I start with configuring my Starwind iSCSI Target with no problem at all, It’s easy, fast and reliable at least in my home lab I get a good answer from it. I’m using this software to provide iSCSI targets to my ESXi hosts and placing […]
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My first beta exam invitation — VMware VCAP4-DCD
Hi, The title may tell you what this post all about, It’s a great news to be invited for the beta exam but not being able to go is something really hard. I have invited for VMware VCAP4-DCD Beta Exam on Oct, 21st (about 12 days ago) and unfortunately I couldn’t be there for the […]
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VMware vSphere PowerCLI
Today is the first day I’m starting using VMware vSphere PowerCLI and I’ll post any script I’m writing during my study, I hope they become useful (some day). Last night we have power outage and because I’m not using UPS at home for my lab, both of my systems powered off. Today I have powered […]
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VMware vSphere Hypervisor and vCenter Server
As far as I know, when users installing VMware vSphere Hypervisor (free version) they can use it in three way, for 60 days in trial period with full feature, they can enter their free license or they can use the license they bought which means more feature would be available for use.
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Upgrading ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1
If you search on the internet you would find many communities post, blogs and web site about “How to upgrade ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1”. Well, thats true but I’m writing my own experience with ESXi 4.0 which has Cisco Nexus 1000v (trial of course) and it’s upgrade process. the process and steps can be […]
