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VCP6-DCV Objective 8.3 – Consolidate Physical Workloads using VMware Converter

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VCP6-DCV blueprint covers P2V chapter too. This post will cover VCP6-DCV Objective 8.3 – Consolidate Physical Workloads using VMware Converter. VMware converter was (and still is) very popular free tool for P2V or V2V conversions. This was the first tool I actually started to work with when I first started with datacenter virtualization. Converting physical systems […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 4.2 – Perform vCenter Server Upgrade

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In no particular we started to cover VCP6-DCV sections to help out folks learning towards VCP6-DCV VMware certification exam. Due to VMware re-certification policy the VCP exam has now an expiration date. You can renew by passing delta exam while still holding current VCP or pass VCAP. Today’s topic VCP6-DCV Objective 4.2 – Perform vCenter […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer a vSphere Backups/Restore/Replication Solution

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VMware vSphere comes with free vSphere Data protection (VDP) product. There is no more VDP and VDP advanced as the VDP inherited all advanced features of VDP Advanced. So VDP is Advanced by Default. This post will cover VCP6-DCV Objective 6.1 – Configure and Administer a vSphere Backups/Restore/Replication Solution. It seems that for VCP6 there […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 3.2 – Configure Software-defined Storage

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VCP6-DCV (data center virtualization) VMware certification exam was recently released and the registration will be soon available. The term software-defined, you can love or hate this term, but Software-defined storage is here, and this post covers VCP6-DCV Objective 3.2 – Configure Software-defined Storage. Hopefully, it will help you to learn this topic towards the exam… For […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 1.1 – Configure and Administer Role-based Access Control

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Today’s VCP6-DCV goal is to talk about – VCP6-DCV Objective 1.1 – Configure and Administer Role-based Access Control. VMware VCP exam is a gold standard of VMware certification exams. VCP exam is the most known VMware exams, even if it’s not the highest technical level. But it’s most recognized. By a future employer, by industry […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 4.1 – Perform ESXi Host and Virtual Machine Upgrades

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We will In no particular order start to cover VCP6-DCV sections to help out folks learning towards VCP6-DCV VMware certification exam. Due to VMware recertification policy the VCP exam has now an expiration date. You can renew by passing delta exam while still holding current VCP or pass VCAP. Today’s topic of VCP6-DCV Objective 4.1 […]

VCP6-DCV Objective 1.3 – Enable SSO and Active Directory Integration

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In no particular order I’ll start covering VCP6-DCV sections to help out folks learning towards VCP6-DCV VMware certification exam. Due to VMware recertification policy the VCP exam has now an expiration date. You can renew by passing delta exam while still holding current VCP or pass VCAP. The topic today – VCP6-DCV Objective 1.3 – […]

VMware VSAN Health Check Plugin

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I have recently installed an All-Flash version of VSAN in my Home Datacenter (not to say a lab). While the installation went ragher without problems, and also the recently released VMware VSAN Health Check Plugin deployment went rather smoothly except that I have had another web server conflicting with the VSAN plugin…..  so I could […]