Today I was asked to set some of backups of vCenter. My pre-reqs (Windows Fileserver) Network Path (mine being \\MS1-FS1\vcenterbackup) Service Account of vcenterbackup Open up the VAMI of your vCenter <<vcenter name/ip>>:5480 Log in as root Make sure your Username doesn’t include your domain (In my case it was ms1/vcenterbackup) as error is listed […]
Resetting Root Password Reboot your vCenter VM Press “E” on bootup. Enter rw /bin/bash at the end of the 2nd line as below. Press F10 to boot into rescue shell. At the prompt, type in Mount -o remount,rw / passwd Type in your new password Finally type in umount / reboot -f Now I can […]
Nice email to find out I’ve won a Limited Edition backpack, nice one VMware
Hi All, the plan is to create a study guide for all the objectives on the “Version 7” of the exam…. To start with please check out the blueprint of the exam. I anticipate this will take me a few months to put together, as I have a 3 year old and a day job […]
Today I sat the VCP – DCV 2020 (based on vSphere 7) exam, and happy to say I passed!!… To that end, I will be creating an unofficial study guide, with links & demos of some of the requirements and objectives taken from the blueprint. This will be a work in progress but I am […]
This weekend I have been involved in a EMC VMAX to Unity SAN migration for our shared VMware farm, most cases the VM’s went across using Storage vMotion with no issues. But I’m at the business end of the migration and we have a few issues towards the end. The common theme was the VM’s […]
I’m currently embarking on a journey to become a VCAP/VCIX in Horizon. My plan Is to give you hints/tips if you are studying for the VCAP-DTM (Design) exam. I think we all agree 2020, has been the year of VDI. At the current time the deploy portion of the VCIX is based on Horizon 6, […]
After the installation of NSX-T you must register a compute manage (ie a vCenter) Enter the details above, my example is my homelab VC UK-NCL-VMC-01 In my case I don’t have SSL certs, so click ADD. Once added, within Host Transport Nodes, all my ESXi servers are listed.
I had the pleasure of attending my first VMworld last year in Barcelona, I had been wanting to attend for years but for various reasons never got round to it.. I was already looking forward to the next one, days after the this ended.. given the coronavirus pandemic going on, most if not all conferences […]
Its been a long while since I have sat an exam (Last one was Feb 2020, before lockdown). But I have finally scheduled some (remote) exams. Had a lot of project work and not found a lot of time to study, but a project where we are utilizing NSX-T has given me the kick to […]
