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    Upgrade current gaming system or buy z600 to learn esxi/center?

    Try to install ESXi on it now. If you get storage and NIC support and ESXi installs, grab the 32GB of RAM (and maybe a bigger SSD) and run with it for now. If not, then your first lab exercise is figuring out how to add driver support for those devices. Until you get more experience with...
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    IBM M5015 - poor performance with ESXi 6

    I cut open the battery pack on my M5015. There's a Sony LiIon battery that would be easily replaced for about 10 bucks, but there's also a circuit board with ten or so ICs. Might be worth trying a new battery, but I'd guess the ICs store some info on the battery state and it's not going to be...
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    IBM M5015 - poor performance with ESXi 6

    I've got one of these with a dead battery I set up with ESXi6 a few days ago and so far all it's done is crash the UnityVSA VM I'm trying to run on it due to latency. I'd be curious how feasible it'd be to make a homemade battery replacement. The battery has four leads, not sure what they all...
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    Exam prep tips for VCP5 certification

    There's nothing gray about using braindumps. Do you want to pass the exam based on your own skills, or do you want to cheat your way through it? That's your choice to make. Go over the blueprint, rate your confidence with each topic on a scale of 1-5. Review the topics where you feel you...
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    VMware HA/FT costs for training lab

    Use the free evaluation licenses like everybody else, or if you don't want to be bothered periodically rebuilding your lab then buy VMUG Advantage.
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    Physical to Virtual to Physical

    What about: 1) Throw the new RAID controller in the system, configure your RAID10 2) Use Windows Disk Management to create an OS based R1, where one "disk" is your existing R1 and the second is your new R10 array (if the motherboard is doing this pre-OS). If it's doing it in the OS, add the...
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    tablets for early childhood education

    (Note: it's been about 12-18 months since I've worked closely with managing iPads, so my info is hopefully out of date and the situation has improved) Chromebooks took me about 10% of the time to manage as do iPads, despite us having 10x more of them. Chromebooks with the management console...
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    ChromeOS Enterprise Rollout

    Yes, I have a number of Chromebook rollouts. It's $150 per device, $30 if you're in education.
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    Thick Lazy Zeroed drive can I expand it on the fly without affecting data

    Have never had a problem on 2008+, or given it much thought. Was kind of confused why this was a question and was wondering if I was missing something.
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    Veeam issues with VSS

    Is the VSS error related to preparing the guest, or specific to Exchange? If the former, you could try increasing the timeout more. Something must've changed on the system to cause it to fail with a 41 minute timeout (2500000ms) whereas it used to work before with the default 15. I have one...
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    VCP5-DCV Certification Renewal?

    If you do that, then (presumably) you're going to have to take another qualifying VCP course and incur that expense.
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    VCP5-DCV Certification Renewal?

    Yeah, your instructor wasn't lying - VMware was. My non-expiring cert expires in May as well. I hope v6 software and exams are out in enough time that I don't have to recert on 5.
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    vSphere 6 released today!

    I thought it was a bit of a snoozer myself. I don't use FT anywhere, and more vCPUs won't change that. Despite them repeatedly beating the " hypervisor is not a commodity" drum, this release just illustrated to me that we're getting there, except perhaps for the largest environments...
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    VMUG Advantage EVALExperience

    I'd be disappointed if it wasn't at six sockets (3x2). Though, if you have a yearly license for one host, you could at least keep your vCenter and "primary" host live for a year and rebuild the other hosts with evaluation licenses when needed. Not sure if that'd be in violation of licensing...
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    Esxi issue

    The recommendations I've seen have been to go to VMXNET3, not 2. If VMXNET NICs are working, I'd leave them be. They should be better performing than E1000 anyway. Upgrading the hosts should resolve the issue. I've had E1000 PSODs at a few sites. Hasn't reoccurred (yet) since the hosts were...
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