VCP4 certified

Happy New Year to all, Finally Vsphere certified. I must admit there is alot to still learn about vsphere. 20-30 questions of just pick three or pick two items.

DMZ Virtualization Using Vsphere and Cisco Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch

Migration from Physical to Virtual

Click here for Whitepaper on DMZ with Nexus and vSphere

How to get your 60 day trial for the Cisco Nexus 1000v

Go to http://www.cisco.com/go/1000v to access the design, install and upgrade guides—look for the “Support” box on the upper right part of the page

Go to http://www.cisco.com/go/1000vdownload a pull down a copy of the software - install it per instructions
Go to http://www.cisco.com/go/1000veval and obtain your eval license

Ports Required for vCentre and Managed Hosts

Just what is Virtual Connect?

Ethernet Module

Fibre Module

Excerpt from HP site:

"Virtual Connect Ethernet and Fibre Channel modules are interconnect options for HP BladeSystem c3000 and c7000 enclosures used in place of conventional pass-thru or managed switch modules. They abstract and pool the server-edge connections so they look like NICs and HBAs to the external LAN and SAN. This allows server administrators to independently manage server blades and their connectivity to, so you can maintain high-availability connections throughout your server racks as you securely administer Media Access Control (MAC) addresses and World Wide Names (WWN) for each server"
More About Virtual Connect

503 Service Unavailable when using Web Interface for Vsphere Host

503 Service Unavailable displays when you type in IP address of Vsphere host into web browser.

By default the service is disabled, you will need to console on to the actual vsphere host and run the following command

service vmware-webAccess start

Vizioncore Free Products

Link to download from

The vConvertor SC and Virtualization EcoShell is of interest mainly.

The convertor for Physical to Virtual migrations. demo video
The EcoShell; scripting for the Sys Admins.



Managing VMware vSphere 4 with The Virtualization EcoShell from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo.

Adrian Brough earns his VCP4 Certification

An experienced Senior Technical Specialist in my team has earned his VCP4 Certification.
He has earned his 2x, 3x, and now the 4x VCP certification.

He has provided a few guidelines you could say to assist in preparing for those wanting to earn their VCP4 Certification.

Total Questions - 85 ( Some key words mentioned, should head you in the right direction)

- Common Maximums
- No VCB
- Alot on Vcentre
- Vcentre related topics / especially plugins. Default etc
- Guided Consolidation / High Confidence/ Confidence Metric
- iSCSI
- HBA
- NPIV
- Fault Tolerance
- Uplink Ports

Try a practice test from SimonLong/Blog

Vsphere Practice Test

Sometimes when you prepare for an exam, the question becomes have you prepared enough?
It does help knowing someone who has sat the exam already :)