vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips

Hi All ...

My Name is Shady Ali Ahmed El-Malatawey. I’m working as VMware System Engineer with 4 years experience (I know it’s too short ). Currently certified as:

MCITP: Virtualization Administrator.
VCP5-DCV.
VCP5-DT.
VCAP5-DCA. (My Exam Experience)
MCTS: Microsoft SCCM 2007, Configuring.
MCTS: Microsoft SCOM2007, Configuring.

The following series is a collection of scattered pieces of information from many blogs, websites and official documentation of VMware about vSphere 5.x. It’s collected during my one-year journey with VCP 5-DCV and VCAP 5-DCA certifications as well as my technical experience during this year.

It contains 24 parts, starting from simple guide of installing ESXi 5.x hosts and vCenter Server, reaching advanced features, like: Auto Deploy, Syslog Collector Configuration, auxiliary products, like: VMware Update Manager, VMware Management Assistant and vCenter Operation Manager and vSphere CLI.

Readers of this series should be -at least- at VCA-DCV level, so that they can coup with the naming conventions, features and basically the concept of Virtualization itself.

Copyrights of any materials, articles, links, guides, etc. are reserved and return to their respective owners. In addition, all terms mentioned in this book that are known to be trademarks or service marks have been capitalized. Use of a term in this series should not be regarded as affecting the validity or copyrights of any trademark or service mark.

Although every possible precaution has been taken in the preparation of this series, any misuse as well as any issues, errors or damage resulted from mis-configuration using the information herein can’t by questioned against me or any of copyrights’ owners and that’s including any configuration stated as Not supported by VMware or Shouldn’t be used in production environment.

My deepest gratitude to my Mom, who supported me and helped me through my entire life till I reached this point and still doing her best for pushing me for more.

In addition, my special thanks to each of (Order is for listing only, no more no less):

“Jason Nash - Joshua Andrews - Duncan Epping - Cormac Hogan - Frank Denneman - William Lam - Andrea Mauro (AndreTheGiant) - Mike Da Costa - Andrea Mauro - Arnim van Lieshout - Ashraf Al-Dabbas - Chad Sakac - Derek Seaman - Gabrie van Zanten - George Crump - Greg Ferro - haiping (Don’t know the actual name) - Jase McCarty - Jason Boche - jmattson (Don’t know the actual name) - Joe Keegan - Justin King - Kyle Gleed - Larus Hjartarson - Lenin Singaravelu - MattBr (Don’t know the actual name) - Michael Webster - Mohammed Al-Baqari - Mohammed Raffic - nVizor (Don’t know the actual name) - Paul Grevink - Petra Jorgenson - Rick Blythe - Rick Vanover - Rickard Nobel - Scott Lowe - Seán Byrne - Sreekanth Setty - Raghu Raghuram - Vyenkatesh Deshpande - zpan (Don’t know the actual name)”

Note:Some points mentioned in this series need confirmation and it’s stated throughout the series. If you can confirm it by any mean of testing or a trustful source, feel free to send it to:vspheredocument@gmail.com

Also, feel free to send your opinions and questions to the mail above.

Eventually, I hope that it helps to improve your knowledge and technical background of vSphere 5.x. For more convenience, PDF version is attached.

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Part I: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part I: ESXi Hosts & vCenter Server - Basic/Best Practices:

Part II: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part II: ESXi Hosts & vCenter Server - Advanced/Troubleshooting:

Part III: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part III: Virtual Machines Settings - Basic/Best Practices:

Part IV: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part IV: Virtual Machines Settings - Advanced/Troubleshooting:

Part V: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part V: General Storage Concepts:

Part VI: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part VI: vSphere Datastore Configuration – Basic/Best Practices:

Part VII: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part VII: vSphere Datastore Configuration - Advanced/Troubleshooting:

Part VIII: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part VIII: vSphere Networking Configuration - Basic/Best Practices:

Part IX: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part IX: vSphere Networking Configuration - Advanced/Troubleshooting:

Part X: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part X: vSphere Resource Pools and Resources Management:

Part XI: vSphere 5.x Notes & Tips - Part XI: vSphere Clustering - General: