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    VMworld 2011 roll call...

    Really glad to see that this will cut down on the 1-1.5 hour waiting in line that I ended up doing last year!
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    vExpert 2011!

    Well deserved, congrats!!
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    VMworld 2011 roll call...

    Same here...I didn't like last year having to wait in line for an hour, but oh well.We'll see how they manage it this year. Got my trip all booked, can't wait for August! See everyone there! Let's get a meetup of sorts going as well
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    Took the VCAP-DCD yesterday...

    Congrats again man! I'm hoping to take the VCAP-DCA at VMworld and then DCD shortly after. Always good to hear experiences on how the test went!
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    VMworld 2011 roll call...

    Awesome! You'll have fun, last year was a blast! Still waiting to hear if my session got accepted or not, but I'll be there either way. We should definitely get some drinks going
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    VMworld 2011 Public Voting is Open!

    That's funny, would have figured it would be the other way around. Either way, I'm really excited for VMworld this year. Some great sessions there!
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    VMworld 2011 Public Voting is Open!

    Interesting, I didn't know that. I was kind of curious as to how I could see the voting numbers. I know people had mentioned you could last year, that's too bad they took it away. I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Do the notifications go out pretty quickly after public voting closes?
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    VMworld 2011 Public Voting is Open!

    haha, sorry about that :) I've had a different username on here for a little while now. I saw another session similar to mine up there from some folks at VMware, so it wouldn't surprise me if that gets chosen over mine. I'm sure they have more experience than I do :) But it's definitely a...
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    VMworld 2011 Public Voting is Open!

    1567 and 1570. So many good sessions up for voting this year. It's going to be hard to make a schedule this year!
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    VMworld 2011 Public Voting is Open!

    You've got some great sessions there, will definitely be getting my votes! I'll be there, can't wait! My two sessions made it to public voting so I'm hoping one makes it through.
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    Anyone have a DS1511+ ?

    I've got the 1511+ with 5x WD 7200 1TB drives serving up NFS and iSCSI for my ESX home lab as well as some windows file shares. It works perfectly and I'd say is definitely worth the price! Nice and quiet too!
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    EMC VNX / VNXe

    lol, I think I'll pass. We have a 2020 also, hardly use it because it's way underpowered
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    EMC VNX / VNXe

    Awesome pics! That's a really good price on the VNXe...I've got budget for a new netapp soon (2040 probably), but I'm going to have to give the VNXe a look. That's much better on pricing than what Netapp was giving us for a similar config
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    Your home ESX server lab hardware specs?

    I've got two of these boxes: Supermicro X8SIL-f Xeon X3450 8GB RAM Onboard dual NIC's plus Intel dual NIC's ESXi booting off flash drives Storage is a Synology DS1511+ with 5x WD 1TB drives.
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    It's getting real

    I know a few people (including myself) who have used that book as a primary resource along with the blueprint to pass the exam. It definitely goes over what you'll need to know and combined with your home lab, you should be good shape.
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    It's getting real

    Scott's book is also an excellent resource when studying for the VCP. Good choice!
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    VMware vCenter Server for home lab?

    Nice, glad to hear it! I'll be picking up two of those mobo's soon so it sounds like I might be doing that same procedure
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    Bridge vm to nic for network monitoring in ESXi?

    Are you trying to monitor all traffic going across a vSwitch or on your physical switch? If it's the vSwitch you want, enable promiscuous mode (accept) on the vSwitch and then you can use your IDS from a VM
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    VMware vCenter Server for home lab?

    userdel vpxuser will remove the account. Once you try to add the host back to vCenter, it should automatically create that account for you
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    VMware vCenter Server for home lab?

    Try removing the vpxuser account from that host and then re-adding it. I've seen that error before and I believe that fixed it. Are these ESXi 4.1 hosts btw?
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    VMware vCenter Server for home lab?

    This is what happened to us. We run vCenter as a VM in prod, but filled up the DB pretty fast. When upgrading from 3.5-->4.1 I moved to regular SQL, but the actual service runs great in a VM.
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    VMware vCenter Server for home lab?

    It's bundled with it. So you can have it install sql express on the same box or point it to another instance. For home lab purposes the sql express install works fine. @mindflux- I believe I ended up paying $200 for technet last time I renewed with a coupon.
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    VMware vCenter Server for home lab?

    It's just a regular exe installer that has to be installed on a 64-bit OS. Win7 isn't supported though, has to be either XP x64, 2k3 x64, or 2k8 x64: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1022101 You'll also need SQL express for the...
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    ESXi 4.1 upgrade on hosts, keep vCenter 4.0

    It has been my experience (and is also the word from VMware), that the vCenter version needs to match the highest version of ESX/ESXi that you will be running. You can definitely run ESX 4.0 on 4.1 vCenter, but going the other way, my hosts would always disconnect if the vCenter version didn't...
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    VMware vSphere 4.1 HA & DRS Technical Deepdive

    I definitely agree! Scott Lowe's book was an excellent resource when I was reviewing for the VCP4, and I'm on the lookout now for more deep dive books/blog posts as I'm getting into the VCAP studying. I follow Duncan's blog (and Frank's also), so I figured some of the content might be...
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    VMware vSphere 4.1 HA & DRS Technical Deepdive

    Been excited for this one! UPS has mine and it should be here tomorrow. Good weekend reading :)
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    Veeam Offering NFR Licenses to VCPs

    Awesome! Thanks Veeam! If only other vendors (I'm looking at you VMware) would do something similar, it would make building my home lab a lot easier!
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    Storage for New VM Solution

    Count us as one of those...have a single shelf EQL and now have two Netapp's due to the cost of adding more space on the EQL side
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    Continue the VCDX quest....

    Best of luck!
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    VMworld 2010

    I'll be there, looking forward to it! I'm planning on attending your session on the 1000v also :) I might have to check out the networking discussion too, sounds like it could be interesting!
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    Training Course for VCP4

    hmm, that's too bad, I was hoping to take the troubleshooting course or something a little more advanced. And I agree, I wish they had other options than the one week on-site course :/
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    Training Course for VCP4

    I've been working with ESX for a little while now and am interested in going for the VCP4 cert. I was looking over the requirements and am trying to figure out which would be the best course to take since it is required for the cert. I have two years of experience with ESX, so I don't think the...
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    Anybody in charge of Massachusetts CMR 201 compliance for your company?

    Thankfully we have a smaller fleet of laptops so we're using TrueCrypt. It lacks central management, but it's free and it works great for our purpose
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    Anybody in charge of Massachusetts CMR 201 compliance for your company?

    *raises hand* Thankfully we've been preparing for about a year now though. I would definitely go to management with this one if you are getting resistance. If nothing else, you did your part bringing up your concerns and going to the right people
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    Administrator Account Getting Locked

    I would check the identities of your app pools and directory security on your virtuals. I've had an app pool lockout an account before like that
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    More than 4VCPUs per VM in ESXi 4.0?

    std has a 4 proc limit unfortunately, so you'd need enterprise or datacenter edition in order to use 8 procs
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    More than 4VCPUs per VM in ESXi 4.0?

    is this win 2k3 std or ent?
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    RAID Spindle Calculator

    Just wanted to say thanks! I've been doing some planning for a new unit we're getting and this helps a lot for figuring out my shelf/disk requirements!
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    Exchange 07 & Outlook 07

    We needed to get one of these when we went from 03 to 07: http://www.digicert.com/unified-communications-ssl-tls.htm That way you can set the SAN so it covers autodiscover, OWA domain, etc.
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    Exchange 2007 backups?

    Same here, except we're on BE 11d, works great though with the exchange agent
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