NET701 - Robin Le Couteur - 2018

Lab 7 In this lab I had to set up a virtual switch and a port group for each of my ESXi hosts so that the virtual machines on these hosts could connect to the production network. I had already set this up previously, so I'll show my configuration below.  As you can see, my Windows 7 client on the left has connectivity and can ping my DC. On the right you can see that vSwitch0 has the VM Network on it, and it is connected to vmnic0 which is connected to the production switch. Lab 8 For this lab I had to access iSCSI storage. I covered iSCSI storage in my screencast so I had already set up or can easily set up everything for this lab. I had set up iSCSI storage on my NetApp vsim already, so all I had to do there was add the two ESXi hosts to the initiator group for my iSCSI LUN. On the VMware side, I had also already set up all the networking so all I had to do was create and configure the iSCSI adaptors. As shown below I am able to see the 8GB LUN I created. ...

Lab 5 In this lab I had to browse through the HTML5 and Flash vSphere clients. This was over pretty quickly as I am already very familiar with both interfaces and the exercises were very short. After using them for a bit you learn to understand how the interfaces have a few differences. Sometimes one interface shows stuff the other doesn't, and sometimes certain tasks will only work in one of the interfaces.  HTML5 host summary:   HTML5 datastore summary: Flash host summary: Flash datastore s0ummary: Layout: 'Getting Started' pages hidden: Lab 6 For this lab I had to create some folders on the VCSA. Folders are quite easy to make and are a great way to organise resources.  Q1. What is the difference between the menu commands in the drop-down menus of the LabVMs folder and the Lab Servers folder? The difference is that the LabVMs folder shows options for creating and managing VMs and Templates, and the Lab Se...

Lab 1-2 These first 2 labs involved installing ESXi (VMware's bare-metal hypervisor solution) on a machine and configuring it. This is a very simple process that only takes a few minutes of work. I won't go into much detail for these labs because there is not much to talk about. Here is the screens after booting and configuring the management network for one of my ESXi hosts. DCUI IPv4 config: DCUI DNS config: Accessing the web management interface: Lab 3 In this lab I had to create a VM in each ESXi host which is also a very simple process. I have done this many times already so there were no major issues with the general creating of the VM. I did have some issues relating to the way our lab environment is set up. The first was how to get a Windows ISO into my virtual datastore. The way I solved this problem involved using a feature of VMware Workstation that allows you to attach USB devices on my laptop to the VM I have open. I copied an ISO ...