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
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
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?
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...
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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...
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...
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...
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!
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 :/
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...
*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
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!
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.