Use Profile Editor to edit and/or disable policies Host profiles eliminate the manual setup of ESXi hosts in a cluster, They ensure that all hosts are identical and there is no user error when making setting changes across a number…
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Understand the use of command line tools to configure appropriate vDS settings on an ESXi host There is very limited commands for a Distributed vSwitch through the command line, as you can understand its a way to centralize your networking configuration and really I…
Leave a CommentUnderstand 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…
Leave a 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 CommentConfigure SNMP SNMP (Simple Network management Protocol) is available and supported by basically all devices in the IT world most people would reffer to it as SNMP trap which is an alert sent by an SNMP agent to a management…
3 CommentsKnowledge Identify storage provisioning methods Identify available storage monitoring tools, metrics and alarms Skills and Abilities Apply space utilization data to manage storage resources Managing space utilization is easy with the data provided through vCenter, This data is located under…
Leave a CommentKnowledge Identify RAID levels Identify supported HBA types Identify virtual disk format types Skills and Abilities Determine use cases for and configure VMware DirectPath I/O Use case VMware DirectPath I/O is a feature that takes advantages intels VT-d and AMDs AMDIOMMU…
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