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VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage Multi-Site Content Library

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VCP6-DCV Study Guide is here to help you study towards VCP6-DCV (or delta) exam. Today’s topic is new in vSphere 6. Feature called vSphere Content Library was not present in vSphere 5.5 and made its apparition in vSphere 6 during its release. VCP6-DCV Objective 10.2 – Create and Manage Multi-Site Content Library is today’s lesson. vSphere […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 7.2 – Troubleshoot vSphere Storage and Network Issues

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Today’s topic of VCP6-DCV Study Guide is touching troubleshooting. In case something goes wrong and you loose connectivity to your application, you must probably troubleshoot the underlying VM first, the network second, but also a storage. When storage is under a pressure then your whole infrastructure just slows down and you might experience disconnections at […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 7.3 – Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades

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In today’s Objective we’ll discuss VCP6-DCV Objective 7.3 – Troubleshoot vSphere Upgrades. You can check the whole VCP6-DCV Study Guide page for all topics there. You can also check the vSphere 6 page where you’ll find many how-to, videos, and tutorials about vSphere 6. VCP6-DCV exam validates you have the skills required to successfully install, […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 2.3 – Configure vSS and vDS Policies

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VCP6-DCV Study guide continues today by covering the VCP6-DCV Objective 2.3 – Configure vSS and vDS Policies. vSphere networking is one of the tough parts to know and this part is where any IT admins have difficulties. This chapter works hand in hand with the VCP6-DCV Objective 2.1 – Configure Advanced Policies/Features and Verify Network […]

vSphere Performance Improvements – New PDF

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There is a new PDF called What’s New in vSphere 6 – Performance, since a couple of days at VMware which compares the performance of vSphere 5.5 and vSphere 6.0. vSphere performance improvements since the v 5.5 are one of the core questions from users after the “What’s New in vSphere 6.0” question. The compare […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 8.1 – Deploy ESXi Hosts Using Autodeploy

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In today’s topic we will take a look at Autodeploy – VCP6-DCV Objective 8.1 – Deploy ESXi Hosts Using Autodeploy, which is quite large topic. Autodeploy allows provision dozens (or hundreds) physical hosts with ESXi images. It’s possible to manage large deployments where hosts are booted via network from a central Auto-deploy server.  In conjunction […]

Free Tool – Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS)

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There is a new free utility from Microsoft called Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) which enhances a security on domain managed workstations (servers) by managing the local admin passwords in the domain on those systems. The tool might interest a system admins which want to reinforce their domain security as it allows setting a different, […]

Veeam Explorer for Oracle DB

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Veeam has announced last week that Veeam Explorer for Oracle will be part of the Veeam v9 release scheduled later this year. Veeam Explorer for Oracle DB will be already 6th Explorer as the family of explorers has already AD, Exchange, SQL, SharePoint and Storage Snapshots. I suppose that the utility will be part of […]