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Re: VCA6-DCV Prep

dee912 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 23:56:46 GMT

That helps, thank you Scott !

VCA6-DCV Prep

dee912 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:46:12 GMT

Hello All,

Slowly coming up to speed with the VMware certification tracks.

I am starting to prep for the VCA6-DCV exam and had a few questions on the below:

[1] Is there a VMware Hands On Lab course I can look at for the DCV track ?

[2] There seems to be a VMware Press DCV Cert Guide. Is it helpful or should the Data Center Virtualization Fundamentals track be sufficient ?

Appreciate your input. Thank you !

Re: VCA6 NV Prep

dee912 — Fri, 25 Mar 2016 06:08:13 GMT

I cleared the exam with about 7-10 days of prep. I had no prior experience with NSX so studying from the ground-up was helpful. This certification give you some direction and structure in preparing for more advanced exams. I am hoping this will help with my VCP prep.

Below are the resources I used:

[1] VMware Network Virtualization Fundamentals eLearning Course

[2] NSX HOL

[3] NSX Network Virtualization Design Guide

[4] NSX Documentation Center

[5] NSX Packet Walk [Deep Dive Blogs from routetocloud]

[6] Blogs from Scott Lowe and Brad Hedlund

Good luck !

Re: VCA6 NV Prep

dee912 — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 22:31:16 GMT

Nice, thank you !

VCA6 NV Prep

dee912 — Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:02:32 GMT

Hi,

I am new to VMware and am preparing to take the Network Virtualization - VCA track.

From the old blueprint for VCA-NV (which should probably still be valid for VCA6-NV), 2 training courses are listed :

Network Virtualization Fundamentals [V2014] Classroom Live Online <<< Still available online

Enroll VMware NSX Technical Overview with Labs Self-Paced with Labs View Schedule <<< Can't seem to find this

[1] Is there an equivalent course available for "VMware NSX Technical Overview with Labs Self-Paced" ?

[2] Would taking the "Network Virtualization Fundamentals" be sufficient for the VCA6-NV exam ?

[3] Could not find this, but any recommended books/study guides on VMware press that can be used for preparing for VCA6-NV and above ?

Thank you !

vSphere CLI to access VM console OR how to write to a VMDK to include the VM's mgt IP

dee912 — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 23:29:49 GMT

Is there a vSphere CLI [esxcli] or equivalent command available to access the VM console from the esxcli ?

I am trying to find a way to include the mgt IP and ssh for the host OS on a VM when it boots up. One way that I can think of would be to access the VM console via the ESXi CLI.

Another would be to write the same to the vmdk file. Does anyone know how to do either ?

Bringing up a FreeBSD VM with baseline CLI configuration on ESXi

dee912 — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 19:39:16 GMT

Hi,

Just getting started off on this - I have a small setup where I have some FreeBSD images created as VMs on ESXi 5.5 and am using vSphere as the client.

Below are the objectives I am trying to acieve :

[1] Bring up 5 VMs with the FreeBSD image I have, with some baseline configuration for example: management IP assigned and ssh enabled.

[2] Currently, I have manually mapped the vSwitches containg the vnics to the physical nics on the ESXi server from which there are outgoing connections to external routers

For [2] I believe I can write a perl/python script that uses the esxcli interface to automate the same.

- Is there a better way to do this ?

For [1] however, I am not clear on how to accomplish this.

- Can a VM template help with this ?

- Is there a way by which I can combine a baseline config file with the vmdk image and then boot the VM up using the same ?

- How would virtual appliances fit into this picture ?

Would appreciate any input you would have on the above.

Thanks.