Understand the NIC Teaming failover types and related physical network settings There are 5 NIC Teaming policies: Route based on the originating virtual switch port ID This is the default configuration and the one that’s most commonly used. It works by choosing…
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Knowledge Understand what logical performance services are provided by VMware solutions. Memory Transparent Page Sharing (TPS) – most guest virtuals will be using the same Operating System and drivers etc, this means there will be allot of identical data in…
Leave a CommentKnowledge Understand what management services are provided by VMware solutions. vMA vCenter PowerCLI vCLI vCenter Orchestrator vSphere API vSphere HA vSphere DRS Auto Deploy Scheduled Tasks Host Profiles Identify and differentiate infrastructure qualities (Availability, Manageability, Performance, Recoverability, Security) See Previous…
Leave a CommentKnowledge Understand what logical availability services are provided by VMware solutions. VMware High Availability – minimizes downtime by restarting virtual machine on remain hosts in case of hardware failure VMware Fault Tolerance – Provides continuous availability in case of hardware failure by running a…
1 CommentKnowledge Identify basic service dependencies for infrastructure and application services. This will be done during the current state analysis, There are products that will help identify application dependencies like VMware vCenter Application Discover Manager or even VMware Infrastructure Navigator can highlight dependencies. For example a…
1 CommentCame across this bug the other day and thought I might put it up here so it may help other people. unfortunately I was asked to grab some performance statistics going back to last year. lucky I was running vCOPS which had the data…
Leave a CommentKnowledge Explain the common components of logical design. The common components of a Logical Design are: Focuses on satisfying the design factors (requirements, risks, constraints assumptions) relationships between all major infrastructure components How to arrange components Does not contain physical detail like ports or ip addresses etc…
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