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Month: December 2016

VMware PowerCLI – Introduction

VMware PowerCLI – Introduction

To begin the jurney with PowerCLI we need to start from the installation of PowerCLI itself. The installation can be done on a Windows based system, that could be some kind of an administration server. The installation files can be found on this VMware site. There are a few versions available, they are released asynchronously with vSphere and the version numbers do not exactly correspond to vSphere versions. The most recent version is 6.5 whilst there are other like 6.3,…

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vSphere 6.5 – What’s new in networking  

vSphere 6.5 – What’s new in networking  

  In this article I will try to review all new network features. 1. vmknic gateway Each VMKERNEL port can have its own Gateway. This will make it easy for vSphere features to function seamlessly. This eliminates the need for adding and maintaining static routes. Before vSphere 6.5 there was only one default gateway allowed for all VMKernel ports in an ESXi host. vSphere features such as DRS , iSCSI, vMotion, etc. leverage  that use VMKERNEL ports are constrained by…

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VCAP6-DCV Exam Experience

VCAP6-DCV Exam Experience

There are a few such articles on the Internet. I think, read them all some weeks ago while preparing to my own exam. However, I’d like to share with you my own observations.   Let’s start from the begining -how did I prepare for the exam? Well, behind the real experience and VCP5/6 done already I went through the VMware blueprint for the exam. Almost every objective was tested in the lab, even it was quite obvious I wanted to review…

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