HC 4.10 has just been released and with it come a whole host of excellent new features. You can read the release notes here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-HCX/4.10/rn/vmware-hcx-410-release-notes/index.html In this post, I want to concentrate on what will be welcome to customers who operate their own private datacentres and have no use for encryption. Historically, the traffic between … Read more
Sometime in 2017 when I was doing freelance consulting, I was in the middle of a vSphere upgrade from 6 to 6.5 for a client of mine, and it went a little bit wrong. I opened a GSS case with VMware support and after a few things were checked, it still wasn’t working. To make … Read more
Previously as self-employed I had been putting off sitting the exam due to the cost, but I joined VMware PSO recently and as an employee I get a few free goes at the exams (before I have to explain myself to my boss!), so I figured I would just get it booked and sit it. … Read more
I’m lucky/stupid enough to have reasonably powerful hardware for my home lab. Whilst I am a great advocate of building as much on physical equipment as possible, sometimes hardware costs are prohibitive or overkill to experiment with some new technologies. A new project at work required some work on Cross-vCenter NSX. Since I only had … Read more
In my opinion, if you’re wanting to learn or sit exams, nothing beats practising on physical equipment. Online material is great, but you really do need to get proper hands on to fully understand all of the technology areas you’re interested in studying and certifying for. My lab has grown somewhat in the past few … Read more
*** This is no longer applicable *** I’ve always had a desire to become VCP certified in the DCV track, however as I am self employed the cost of the course has always been prohibitive. In the UK, I had been looking at prices of around £3k which is a lot of money! At work … Read more