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NetApp Module 8:
Next on the journey through the NetApp modules was module 8. This module consisted of licensing NFS, exporting a volume – both by the system manager and by the CLI, as well as mounting the exports. To...
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NetApp Module 9:
So onto the next Module.. Module 9. This module was all about configuring the CIFS service and creating shares and being able to map these CIFS shares to a drive letter on a windows machine. Module 9…...
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NetApp Module 11:
The last stop on this NetApp module journey was Module 11. This module had us start and configure the iSCSI service for windows server 2008 R2, and license and start the iSCI service for the NetApp...
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VMware Lab 2
In VMware Lab 2 we had to connect to an ESXi host with the vSphere client, view the host hardware configuration, configure DNS and Routing for an ESXi host, as well as configure the ESXi host as an NTP...
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VMware Lab 7
So jumping ahead to Lab 7.. In Lab 7 we had to add a VMkernel port group to a standard virtual switch, configure the iSCSI on our ESXi host, configure access to an NFS datastore (Mount an NFS...
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VMware Lab 1
In Lab 1 we had to install the vSphere Client as well as the Web client. Listed in the Objectives was also “Install vSphere Web Access” but this seemed to be missing out of the lab completely. VMware...
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VMware Lab 3
In Lab 3 we had to create a virtual machine, then install an operating system on that VM. We also looked at the VM’s disk format and usage statistics as well as installing VMware tools on the newly...
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VMware Lab 21
For Lab 21 we had to install vCenter Server… That wasn’t just it but pretty much, the other tasks were to access the vCenter Server system.. was already using it so nothing to do there… as well as...
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VMware Lab 5
Lab 5 had us perform basic vCenter Server inventory operations. The tasks in this lab were to install vSphere license keys, create a vCenter Server inventory datacenter object, create a vCenter Server...
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VMware Lab 6
Lab 6 was a straight forward lab as we already had to do this to complete lab 7 that was done previously. It had us view the current virtual switch configuration, create a standard virtual switch with...
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VMware Lab 9
Lab 9 was a straight forward lab since I had already set up my storage in advance so I wouldn’t need to create any new LUN’s. This lab consisted of reviewing the shared storage information, change the...
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VMware Lab 10
Lab 10 was new to me as I had never used sysprep files before. I had to go about the lab a little differently because of the setup that we are using. I also found that there was information stating...
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VMware Lab 11
Lab 11 had us increase the size of a VMDK file (the virtual disk), adjust the allocated memory on a virtual machine, rename a virtual machine in our VCS inventory, add a RDM to a virtual machine and to...
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VMware Lab 12
In Lab 12 we had to create a new VMkernel port group to be used for vMotion, we had to verify that ESXi Hosts met the requirements for vMotion (can see shared datastores and VM networks), verify...
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VMware Lab 17
This lab was about using Alarms. We had to create an alarm to monitor for a condition, create an alarm that monitors for an event, trigger these virtual machine alarms and acknowledge them and then...
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VMware Lab 18
In lab 18 we had to create a cluster enabled fo rvSphere High Availability, add ESXi hosts to a cluster and test the vSphere High Availability functionality. VMware Lab18… Check!
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VMware Lab 19
In lab 19 we added Distributed Resource Scheduling to the HA cluster, verified proper DRS cluster functionality, created, tested and disabled affinity rules, created, tested and disabled anti-affinity...
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VMware Lab 20
In this lab we had to install the VMware update manager, install the update manager client plug-in, modify cluster settings, configure the update manager, create a patch baseline, attach a patch...
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VMware Lab 4
This lab was about configuring the vCenter Server Appliance. To start this lab I had to deploy the appliance from and ovf file and then I was able to carry on with this lab. In this lab we had to...
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VMware v4-Lab 17
In this lab we had to configure VMware Data Recovery. This consisted of installing the Data Recovery plug-in, modifying the Data Recovery virtual appliance, doing the initial setup of the Data Recovery...
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