Comments for vReference

Comment on VMware exam resources by Miles

Miles — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:03:23 +0000

Thanks for the collation of resources, very handy as I’m in the midst of preparing for my VCP4, booked for sitting by the end of this month. I’ve gone for the free retake….

One comment I would make is that the VMware documentation is not infallible, so if something doesn’t seem right, validate it against other docs or in a lab (I’ve got both ESX and ESXi running in VMs on Workstation). For instance, the number of ports per vSwitch is incorrect in the official documentation (it states 1016) but ESX showed 4088. Also, the number of vSwitches per host is incorrect too. I noted that your notes are correct Forbes .

Cheers guys and good luck!

Comment on VMware exam resources by Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:12:11 +0000

Best of luck Andrew. Good tip about the testing center, I don’t want to have to go all the way to Surrey. I was wanting to book it for sometime in the next couple of weeks. Do you how long the queue is?

Comment on VMware exam resources by Andrew Storrs

Andrew Storrs — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:35:03 +0000

I went for the 30% now vs. possible 100% later – I’ll let you know how it turns out in a little over a week.

P.S. BCIT Downtown is the only VUE site in Vancouver offering the exam and its schedule is packed – you might have to drive to Surrey.

Comment on vSphere 4 reference card – poster sized by Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:04:30 +0000

Hi Mohan,
Thanks for the heads up. I’ve fixed the link now.

Comment on vSphere 4 reference card – poster sized by Mohan

Mohan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:56:07 +0000

vSphere4 card – poster size document is not available in the link, could you please repost the same.

Thanks in advance

Comment on reboot is not the same as init 6 (updated) by Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:44:12 +0000

Hi jsd,
last -x searches though the /var/log/wtmp and cats out all the entries related to run-level changes. So the whole command should tell you when the server was last shutdown or reboot. (I’ve corrected the showdown typo )

Comment on reboot is not the same as init 6 (updated) by jsd

jsd — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:14:24 +0000

Folks…good thread…what exactly does last -x | grep -e showdown -e reboot do?

Comment on vReference vSphere 4.0 card updated by GreenCode

GreenCode — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:48:38 +0000

Nice work … thank’s

Admin from GreenCode

Comment on Win 2008 defragmentation schedule by michael

michael — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:12:20 +0000

i have done a clean install of win2008 standard sp1 and win2008 standard 64bit sp2. both have this task enabled by default.

Comment on MSCS confusion by Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:29:00 +0000

Hi Josi, the table above describes 2 different things:
– you can create snapshots with virtual RDMs
– you can create CAB with virtual RDMs
However it doesn’t state that you can use snapshots with disks that are used in MSCS setups. If you check the MSCS documentation, snapshots is just one of the things which is not supported on MSCS VMs.