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VMware released today a new exam to qualify candidates for the VMware Certified Advanced Professional 5 – Data Center Administration (VCAP5-DCA) Certification. You have now the possibility to pass two different exams: passing either of these will earn VCAP5-DCA certification if you meet the other pre-requisites. This new exam (code VDCA550) is based on vSphere v5.5, where the existing exam (exam code VDCA510) is based on vSphere v5.0. I have just extracted this sentence of the VDCA550 Exam Blueprint: ...

Overview Beginning with vSphere 5.1, VMware introduced LACP support on vSphere Distributed Switch (LACP v1), to form a Link Aggregation team with physical switches. LACP is a standard method (IEEE 802.3ad) to control the bundling of several physical network links together to form a logical channel for increased bandwidth and redundancy purposes. LACP enables a network device to negotiate an automatic bundling of links by sending LACP packets (LACPDUs) to the peer. ...

Many people use NSX-V via the vSphere Web Client. However, the NSX manager provides a REST API entry-point and the consumption of logical networks and security services can be driven directly via the API. This API helps to automate the deployment and the management of NSX through scripts or a CMP. The goal of this post is to describe how to configure syslog for various components of the NSX platform by using API calls. ...