Author Archives: Alex Galbraith

VMware VCAP-DCD 4 Exam Review

Posted on 28th March 2012 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on VMware VCAP-DCD 4 Exam Review

Well I’m very pleased to say that as of 4pm yesterday I am now a VCAP having passed the VMware VCAP4-DCD exam! So how was it? My final [..]

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propertyCollector Error When Editing Virtual Machine Swapfile Location

Posted on 26th March 2012 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on propertyCollector Error When Editing Virtual Machine Swapfile Location

Today I came across the following propertyCollector error message whilst trying to modify the VM Swapfile location for two hosts in my lab cluster. This pops up as [..]

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FreeNAS 0.7.2 NFS and iSCSI Performance in a vSphere 4.1 Lab

Posted on 6th March 2012 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on FreeNAS 0.7.2 NFS and iSCSI Performance in a vSphere 4.1 Lab

While doing some lab testing and benchmarking for my upcoming VCAP-DCD exam I came across some interesting results when messing about with NFS and iSCSI using FreeNAS. I plan [..]

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Free Microsoft 70-659 Server Virtualisation Exam at Prometric

Posted on 10th February 2012 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Free Microsoft 70-659 Server Virtualisation Exam at Prometric

So I was doing a bit of a refresh on Hyper-V for a project I have upcoming later this year and I came across a superb offer from [..]

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