So as you may have guessed, I work with VMware a bit in my employment. On top of that, I’ve tried to start using PowerShell to automate repetitive tasks that I run into. (In fact, one of the major points of the existence of this page is to give myself a location to store these…
So I took advantage of VMware’s VCP upgrade offer and have successfully passed the VMware Certified Professional exam for vSphere 4. Normally VMware requires that a candidate complete an authorized training course in order to attain VCP certification, however, through the end of the year they are allowing current VCP’s on Virtual Infrastructure 3 to upgrade…
In a previous post, I described a VMware Storage Migration task I was assigned and a quick run-down of the capability of the Storage VMotion feature. Now, I’ll go into more detail about an awesome little tool that could make the process much easier. The tool is called ‘SVMotion‘ and it is a plug-in to…
Recently, I was tasked with migrating our entire VMware implementation to a new storage array. Essentially, we are replacing our current SAN with one that is claimed to be bigger, better, and faster. That sounds great, but how do you move 35 TB of data belonging to 800 VM’s with a minimal impact? Storage VMotion may be what you’re…
Several months ago, my employer brought in VMware to provide the Fastrack course covering VI3. Along with the course, each attendee was given a voucher code to take the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) course. After procrastinating for several months, and the voucher expiration nearing, I finally buckled down and started studying. I scored a total…