Plain Virtualization

Just got back from company kick off and haven't got the time to put in something new this month.  Hectic month for me. Taking a step back and viewing what I have done so far, I realize I did some sharing on VCAP DCD on networking when I first passed my VCAP 4 DCD. I almost forgot about this till someone approached me and this still stay very relevant till today irregardless of version as the fundamental should remain the same other than the new features added to networking in vSphere 5.  This brownbag can still be viewed here and with also some others related been done by my colleagues in other areas in storage, host design, etc. I have thus completed my VCAP 5 DCD and DCA as well. Though I am not a network expert in any field, I do like to highlight that the exam focus on your knowledge in terms of networking on vSphere and not particularly pertaining to any hardware in specific. As much I have shared, it is tested on things that should work irregardless of type of...

With the introduction of vSphere 5.1.  There would be many questions on the new features and enhancements been made.  So here are the breakdown of all the new and enhancement documents. What's New in vSphere 5.1 Introduction to VMware vSphere Data Protection Introduction to VMware vSphere Replication Introduction to VMware 5.1 - Performance Introduction to VMware 5.1 - Storage Introduction to VMware 5.1 - Platform Introduction to VMware 5.1 - Networking Hope these will give you a good idea on the changes. As for the editions and add on,  the same editions that are in vSphere 5 are still here which includes Essential, Essential Plus, Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. What has been added is Standard with Operations Management.  This edition adds in vCenter Operations Suite Advanced for active monitoring and capacity monitoring and vCenter Protect Standard for patching.  This edition is very useful for customer starting on a small virtuali...