I just found these today. They are not new, but they are very useful and I wanted to share them: VI3 Refrence Card vSphere Refrence Card They are basically an all-in-one reference cheat sheets for managing both VI3 and vSphere. I plan on getting one laminated for myself to keep around for a while. These [...]
Archive | September, 2009
First Look: VCP 4 (vSphere) Exam
As anyone that has taken any type of IT certification test knows, I cannot quote actual questions, but I wanted to write a post about what I used to prepare for the exam and offer some post exam guidance. This exam differs from the VI3 test in a few ways. First off, it is now 85 questions [...]
Tutorial: ESX 4.0 Syslog Configuration
This tutorial is intended to explain how to configure syslog on both ESX and ESXi to point to a remote syslog server (for this tutorial I will be using vSphere, but the concepts apply to earlier versions as well as many*nix distros). In both cases the configuration is fairly simple, but can be confusing. I [...]
Microsoft Strikes Again
Today I was setting up Exchange 2007 on a VM in a test lab and I came across this when I was running the Best Practices Analyzer. The bit outlined in red shows a warning stating that “VMware Detected” which is ironic since VMware is a supported platform for exchange to run on and there [...]
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