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Know your way around in the vCenter GUI. There are some questions in the VCP4-test regarding what options you have different places in the GUI. Go through all menus and options, and know what they are there for.

An example could be: What is the default setting for “Default cluster settings” under VM monitoring in the HA-configuration?

1: Low

2: Medium

3: High

Check the answer out here

If you have been fooling around with ESX(i) you might know putty. “PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator” as the homepage states. I use this app every day to manage Linux-servers, firewalls, routers and offcourse ESX-servers. You can choose to install the “putty-package” with is a set of apps for use around putty.

I use pageant all the time. Pageant is “an SSH authentication agent for PuTTY, PSCP and Plink”. If you want to know about how it works take a look here.

Check out this blog post from Jeroen van de Kamp. Alot of thing to consider when virtualizing TS/citrix workloads. Also handy in a VDI-environment.

Know the ports used by vsphere. Like in part 1, this is easy points if you can remember this.

Ports for vCenter

80 tcp Web
389 tcp LDAP
443 tcp Web ssl
636 tcp Linked mode ssl
902 tcp/udp Managing hosts
902/903 tcp Used for vsphere client
8080 tcp vCenter server webmanagement
8443 tcp vCenter server webmanagement ssl

Check out this forum post. Alot of usefull things and considerations.

First of all, know your maximums! Its not that big a part of the test but its is easy point if you can memorize them. Memorize this whitepaper and take the the practice exams that on Simon Long’s blog until you get them 100% right. That helped me alot.

I passed my VCP4 today Pretty difficult test.

I would like to introduce feedreader. Its a regular rss-reader, nothing fancy there. I use it every day to get news about different things and i would like to share the virtualization-rss-feeds i use and read.

http://www.amikkelsen.com/?feed=rss2

http://feeds.brianmadden.com/brianmadden/rss

http://professionalvmware.com/feed/

http://feeds.feedburner.com/SearchservervirtualizationServerVirtualizationNewsAndOpinions

http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/server-virtualization/feed/

http://www.virtualtroll.com/?feed=rss2

http://feeds.feedburner.com/Virtualization_info?format=xml

http://feeds2.feedburner.com/vSphere-land

http://feeds.scottlowe.org/slowe/content/feed/

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