VCP vSphere (VCP410) practice exam

By | September 17, 2009
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Simon Long has posted a great test exam for the VCP410 exam. I used it to study for mine. http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-4-practice-exam/ Also take a look at Somins study notes. http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcdx-study-notes/ Another great and very usefull help is to use and memorize the vReference Card. http://www.vreference.com/ Thanks to VCP for the below study sites http://www.passguide.com/vcp-410.html http://www.vcp-410.com And not… Read More »

Passed VCP410

By | September 16, 2009
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Yesterday I passed the VCP401 exam with 375 points. I feel that the exam was harder than the old exam (VCP310). Think VMware has realized this and dropped the target for VCI from 400 to 350 points.

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Black screen in a Windows VM or an a physical server

By | September 10, 2009
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Over the past few months we have seen a few Windows servers with a black screen. Meaning You can’t see the logon promt You get a black screen when you connect with RDP We found that the problem was caused by a change in the Windows color scheme. The solution is to copy the color… Read More »

List of free VMware tools

By | August 21, 2009
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TeckHead.com has released a list of free tools and scriptrs for your VMware enviroment. The list will be updated with new tools and scripts when ever new are found … Read the list here.

Offline upgrade from ESX 3.x to vSphere (ESX 4.x)

By | June 8, 2009
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If you want to perform an offline upgrade of an ESX 3.x host to the new vSphere  host there are a few ways. Using a DVD: /root/esxupgrade.sh storage1 Using the DVD ISO: esxupgrade.sh -i /vmfs/volumes/storage1/esx4.iso /vmfs/volumes/storage1 storage1 – should be a VMDK local datastore attached to the host. storage1 – should be at least 8.4GB… Read More »