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VCP6.7-DCV Objective 5.1 – Determine effective snapshot use cases

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Today’s topic is about snapshots, snapshot formats, and effective snapshot use cases. Today’s post name is – VCP6.7-DCV Objective 5.1 – Determine effective snapshot use cases. We still follow VMware blueprint which gives us topics for our VCP-DCV 2019 Study Guide. The work in progress page gets updated almost daily. Check back soon. It’s not […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 1.3 – Describe Storage Types for vSphere

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A storage topic today. If you’re new to this blog, here is another article which shall help to study towards a Professional vSphere 6.7 Exam 2019. It’s not an official study guide, but rather a community-driven study guide which is taking shape at this page – VCP6.7-DCV Study Guide – VCP-DCV 2019 Certification. The topic today […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 1.4 – Differentiate between NIOC and SIOC

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Another interesting chapter today, to continue with our study guide to pass the Professional vSphere 6.7 Exam 2019. Today’s chapter: VCP6.7-DCV Objective 1.4 – Differentiate between NIOC and SIOC. Storage I/O Control (SIOC) allows throttling VMs accessing a datastore which has exceeded a certain latency. Network I/O Control, on the other hand, allows you to reserve […]

How To SlipStream Latest VMware ESXi patches into an Installation ESXi ISO File

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This comes back on a regular basis. Users asking how they can create an installation ISO with the latest VMware patches in it. In this post we’ll walk you through the process, we will learn How To SlipStream Latest VMware ESXi patches into an Installation ESXi ISO File. We have created a guide on this […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.8 – Configure an SSO domain

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Today we’ll cover another objective from VCP-DCV 2019 certification and we’ll talk about VMware clusters. Chapter after chapter we’re getting closer to fill the blueprint objectives and help students to study and pass the Professional vSphere 6.7 Exam 2019. Today’s chapter: VCP6.7-DCV Objective 4.8 – Configure an SSO domain. You should not rely on our information […]

VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x Objective 1.5 – Explain the difference between VMware standard switches and distributed switches

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Today we’ll cover another objective from VCP-DCV certification based on vSphere 8.x, and we’ll talk about the difference between vSphere standard switches (vSS) and vSphere Distributed Switches (vDS). Chapter after chapter we’re getting closer to fill the blueprint objectives and help students to study and pass the VCP-DCV Exam. Today’s chapter: VCP-DCV on vSphere 8.x […]

VCP6.7-DCV Objective 1.9 – Describe the purpose of cluster and the features it provides

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Today we’ll cover another objective from VCP-DCV 2019 certification and we’ll talk about VMware clusters. Chapter after chapter we’re getting closer to fill the blueprint objectives and help students to study and pass the Professional vSphere 6.7 Exam 2019. Today’s chapter: Objective 1.9 – Describe the purpose of a cluster and the features it provides. A […]

VMware vSphere 6.7 Update 2 Announced

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VMware is announcing vSphere 6.7 Update 2 after several months of the previous release, vSphere 6.7 U1. The U2 not only fixes bugs but brings some significant improvements and support for Windows Server 2019 with VM hardware version 15. VM Hardware version 15 brings not only scalability improvements (you can configure up to 256 vCPUs) […]