While brainstorming about one of our labs, the question was raised on whether you can upsize your VCSA while upgrading to a newer version. Specifically, from 6.5u2 to 6.7U1 (build 8815520 to 11726888). We wanted to upgrade to the latest version but we also believe we...
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Covering Objective 1.3 now we will be covering the following topics
Create Transport Zones according to a deployment plan
Configure the control plane mode for a Transport Zone
Add clusters to Transport Zones
Remove clusters from Transport Zones
So,...
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So I have skipped a few sections dealing with troubleshooting. I may circle back around and get to them if I can but I am shooting to try to get all the other stuff done. Besides, I am sure if you have gotten this far – you have had at least a couple problems and...
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Welcome back to another version of Mike's VMware show! Up for today, we are going to discuss Backups and Replication. In specific, the topics we are going to cover are:
Identify snapshot requirements
Identify VMware Data Protection...
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Back again with a new objective. This time we are going to go over Resource Pools. Over the course of the blog post we will cover the following points.
Describe the Resource Pool hierarchy
Define the Expandable Reservation parameter
Describe vFlash...
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To wrap up upgrade processes and things, we are going to go over vCenter Upgrades. The following points will be covered:
Identify steps required to upgrade a vSphere implementation
Identify upgrade requirements for vCenter
Upgrade vCenter Server...
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Here we are again, starting Objective 4.1. The following points will be covered:
Identify upgrade requirements for ESXi hosts
Upgrade a vSphere Distributed Switch
Upgrade Virtual Machine hardware
Upgrade an ESXi host using vCenter Update Manager
Stage...
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Moving on to our last sub point in the Storage Objectives, we are going to cover Storage I/O Control. We will cover the following:
Enable/Disable Storage I/O Control
Configure/Manage Storage I/O Control
Monitor Storage I/O Control
Enable /...
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Continuing along our Storage Objectives, we now are going to cover VMFS and NFS datastores and our mastery of them. We will cover in this objective:
Identify VMFS and NFS Datastore properties
Identify VMFS5 capabilities
Create/Rename/Delete/Unmount a...
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Once again we return to cover another objective. It has been hectic lately, with delivering my first ICM 6 class and also delivering a vBrownBag the same week on one of the future objectives. Now we are back though and trying to get in the swing of things again. Here...
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