Preparation tips and Exam Experience VCTA-DCV aka VMware Certified Technical Associate — Data Center Virtualization is a relatively recent entry-level certification. Introduced in 2020, this certification is intended to prove an understanding of basic virtualization concepts and troubleshooting. The only requirement to obtain the certification is passing the Associate VMware…

Unable to successfully execute ‘tryFormatDevice’ after 3 tries — Introduction While you may have successfully installed and configured a vSphere lab, sometimes within that lab for different reasons you might need to run a lower or higher version of vSphere. Thanks to nested virtualization — that’s possible! Installation … that gets complicated The first thing you start with is installing an ESXi host as a…

The Pi-hole (Raspberry PI OS) VM Introduction Ads are everywhere. If you’re not paying for a subscription, you are indirectly paying for the content you access online by being a captive audience, sometimes quite literally (looking at you counters before the “Skip Ad” button). Even though it is a significant source of revenue for content creators, sometimes…

AZ-900 Azure Fundamentals is a beginners exam which validates entry level skills for Microsoft Azure. Becoming Microsoft certified in Azure Fundamentals, as the name suggests, will demonstrate that you’ve mastered the basics. Despite not being a prerequisite for the advanced, specialized certifications, it will help you get your foot in…

What’s next? This is a series of three posts where I share my own experience and what I’ve learned as a first time Pi user, by turning it into a VMWare’s ESXi host. Part 2 covers the ESXi installation. Create VMs Raspberry Pi assembled. ESXi installed. And now you are asking yourself what’s next? …

VMware’s ESXi (on the Pi) This is a series of three posts where I share my own experience and what I’ve learned as a first time Pi user, by turning it into a VMWare’s ESXi host. Part 1 describes the assembling of the Raspberry Pi 4. What is the ESXi hypervisor Enterprise environments ask for a lot of hardware resources…

The Raspberry Pi This is a series of three posts where I share my own experience and what I’ve learned as a first time Pi user, by turning it into a VMWare ESXi host. What is a Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi is a single board computer, initially intended to fill a gap for affordable, programmable hardware for…