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I am happy to say that I have officially earned my VMware Certified Profession – Data Center Virtualization 2023 certification. It took me about two months of studying but I passed on my first try! I learned a lot with this one and I look forward to the opportunities it will open up to me!

I am preparing to take my VMware Certified Professional – Data Center Virtualization exam. I have been mainly referring to resources from Pearson Vue as well as VMware’s hands on labs for some quality hands on experience. I have been getting well above the required score on the Pearson Vue practice tests. I’m just as…

Today’s post will be a shorter one, feeling a little sick this week. To start off there’s esxtop which is a command line performance monitoring utility for ESXi, one disadvantage is that it can only be used directly on the host you are monitoring performance on. That is where resxtop comes in, remote esxtop, or…

Couple of acronyms today so let’s just break them down. VAMI, vCenter Appliance Management interface. FBB, file-based backup. The VAMI is used to manage your vCenter and can be accessed by navigating to https://vcenter_ip:5480, vCenter IP is replaced with whatever yours is. From there you can configure the FBB, this utility allows you to backup…

As stated on the home page of this site the career tech organization wrote a small article about me, well I am happy to say that they recently released a video as well! Please check it out! Link below

Today’s post is going to be a little shorter than usually just wanted to go over this topic. So how does one encrypt virtual machine files, they use a data encryption key, DEK. The DEK however needs to be able to be encrypted and decrypted by the host, so the host uses a key encryption…

So the upgrade process for vCenter is actually pretty simple, you simply use the vCenter installer you used to initially install vCenter and simply select upgrade instead. Essentially what is happening during this process is a new VCSA is being created with a different IP and all of the configuration, hosts, and settings are being…

As promised I will talk a bit more about host profiles in this post. You actually create and manage host profiles for the polices and profiles window in center, from there you can export a host profile from one select ESXi host with the configuration you’e looking for and export it for use. From there…

Going to discuss two separate topics in this post. First up is the vCenter permissions, these can be broken up into roles, users, and groups. Roles contain the list of privileges you can apply to a user or group, for example the role Network Administrators may allow the user to add, edit, or remove network…

I have seen a few examples of people creating home labs with ESXi, getting their hardware together and finding that ESXi is incompatible with it and then having to use a different hypervisor. In order to avoid these compatibility issues and purchase the right hardware I recommend using this site, the VMware compatibility guide. Its…