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Greetings, fellow humans! I'm a proud dad of two awesome kids, and my other love is Cloud! Working for 20+ years in tech has taught me 2 things; always have a backup and yes, it was the network! When I'm not working as CTO, AWS @SoftwareOne, I write blogs and occasionally do a bit of podcasting too...-
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Category Archives: VMware
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 [..]
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 [..]
VMware
4.1, benchmarking, EMC Celerra, ESX, ESXi, FreeNAS, iSCSI, NFS, performance, SATA, SSD, VMware, vSphere
VMware VCAP-DCD 4 Exam Prep Guide
So I completed my VMware vSphere: Design Workshop [V4.x] last August, but just a week after that my second daughter was born. 6 months (and many dirty nappies) [..]
VMware VCP-510 Exam Review
So I took my exam today and passed with a reasonably respectable score of 428 (pass mark for VCP-510 is 300/500). So how was it? The exam itself [..]