On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Phil Gardner <phil.gardnerjr@gmail.com>wrote:
On 02/19/2014 01:14 PM, Phil Gardner wrote:
Not sure if this list is the best place, but it is probably the only list that I'm on that won't give me a bunch of grief about the chosen technology.
I looked at VMware's site, and there are a ton of options. I'm wondering if anyone has some basic suggestions or experiences.
I'm a Linux admin by trade (RH based), with "ok" networking ability. I'm sufficiently versed in deploying scripted ESXi (including 5.x) installations for a specific environment, including vswitches/SAN config (but only with NFS datastores backed by a NetApp, unfortunately, no blockbased stores).
I'd like to get experience deploying VCenter clusters, down to DRS/HA config, other block based storage, and anything else a large environment needs.
Thoughts or experiences?
Thanks for the responses everyone. I will be petitioning my manager for the vShpere: Install, Configure, Manage v5.5 course.
As a note to this, if you get it approved, make sure that the trainer has (a lot of) real life experience implementing vSphere. It makes a big difference when you run into trouble with the labs or when you have questions that are related to best practices. Eugeniu