VMware - A Guide for New Admins

Are you ready to start learning more about VMware ?
If so, you should read this book !

This book is targeted at the new Admin who has little to no information on VMware or may have just gone to class but does have a lot of day to day experience.

This is 1st first book in the in the series VMware for New Adminis. This book and the others in the series are meant to help those with little to no experience with VMware and virtualization improve your skills and help you on the way to getting a better job.

Here is some of what you will see in the book

Patching VMware

Upgrading VMware

VMware Support Assistant

Setting up NTP on all hosts

Using BGInfo on all servers

Templates

Setting up a send only SMTP Server

Hardening VMware

VMware Data Protection

Created a local backup account on ESXI

Creating a VMware Lab

Tools for your VMware Toolkit

Not everyone may be able to go to a VMware class. In some cases, you may find yourself thrown into a situation where knowing anything about virtualization may give you that extra nudge to moving into another role or making yourself more valuable to your employer and hopefully getting raise as a result of that. I have worked with virtualization in one form or another for several years. Even with going to a week long class as part of the requirement to get my VCP5 certification, I still found myself not as prepared as I had thought I would be after class.

What you read here is the electronic version of my notebook that I have kept since working with VMware on a daily basis. Some of what you see are things I came across in working to resolve a problem. Others resulted from a problem that I found that I was hoping to find a solution for before the problem became serious or I was at a point of no return.