Many vSphere administrators have learned the hard way that with default settings, the root account in the vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 expires after 90 days. The VMware KB article 2069041 addresses how to change the root account password after it expired, which requires rebooting the appliance, modifying the grub boot parameters and using the passwd command. To […]
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I recently submitted a white paper on Tips for VCP5-DCV Preparation that contains a lot of details that I expect VCP candidates will find useful, such as: Benefits and requirements of VCP5-DCV Differences in the VCP510 and VCP550 exams General preparation tips URLs to unofficial practice exams Link to Measure-Up, the official source for practice exams Special considerations […]
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This is an idea that I have implemented for DR test purposes for a couple of customers. I have not seen this idea documented anywhere in the community, so I thought I would post it here for discussion. Scenario: For some of my VMware SRM customers, the network allows production VLANs and subnets to […]
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In a few of my customer’s VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) implementations, we needed to configure a single recovery site to support two protected sites. SRM does permit this, but it requires a custom installation. Early in my SRM engagements, I take steps to determine if a shared recovery site is needed or may be […]
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At the VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) Day during VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, VMware Education provided each VCI with a VMware Technical Journal. As a technical guy with a strong engineering and programming background, I fond the journal to be very interesting. I learned that some of the mathematics and algorithms used in some VMware […]
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