Tag: vcenter
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How to break into a VMware career: certs, interviews and your first job (VMware for Beginners, Part 18)
A practical, no-fluff guide for freshers on breaking into a VMware career in 2026: which certification to start with, the interview questions that trip people up, and what actually gets you hired.
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Build a free VMware home lab: ESXi, vCenter and nested labs (VMware for Beginners, Part 17)
The tools are free again. Here is how a fresher builds a real VMware home lab on one laptop, what hardware actually matters, and a first lab you can finish this weekend.
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Create and manage a virtual machine in vSphere, step by step (VMware for Beginners, Part 13)
The seven-page New Virtual Machine wizard takes two minutes; the choices inside it take judgment. How to size, provision, install, and manage a VM the right way from day one.
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Resource management in vSphere: shares, limits and reservations (VMware for Beginners, Part 12)
Shares, limits and reservations decide which VM wins when an ESXi host runs short. Here is what each control really does, the defaults that trip up freshers, and how to set them without hurting performance.
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vSphere DRS: how a cluster balances its own load (VMware for Beginners, Part 11)
DRS is the part of vCenter that spreads VMs evenly across your ESXi hosts and quietly fixes imbalance with vMotion. Here is how it decides, what to leave on default, and the gotchas that trip up freshers.
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vSphere HA: what happens when an ESXi host dies (VMware for Beginners, Part 10)
vSphere HA restarts your VMs on another host when an ESXi host fails. A plain-English guide to how HA detects a dead host, what admission control does, and why it is not zero downtime.
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vMotion: moving a running VM with zero downtime (VMware for Beginners, Part 9)
vMotion moves a powered-on VM between ESXi hosts with no downtime a user can feel. Here is how the live memory copy works, what it needs, and how to explain it in an interview.
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Templates, clones and snapshots in VMware, made simple (VMware for Beginners, Part 8)
Snapshots are short-lived save points, templates are reusable master images, and clones are one-off copies. What each does, when to use it, and the snapshot mistake that quietly fills datastores.
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What vCenter actually does (VMware for Beginners, Part 4)
ESXi runs your VMs, but vCenter Server is the control room that manages every host from one screen and powers vMotion, HA, and DRS. A plain-English guide for freshers, with the setup gotchas nobody warns you about.
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Cloud Accounts in VCF Automation: Connecting vCenter and NSX (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 9)
A cloud account is the credential that lets VCF Automation collect inventory and deploy. Adding vCenter and NSX accounts, the VCF account and SDDC Manager, and the NSX manager-mode removal in 9.0.
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vCenter 6.7 Installation | Error: Universal C Runtime is not installed on the system.
While deploying windows based Virtual Center 6.7, I faced below error. Error: Universal C Runtime is not installed on the system. You can download it from Microsoft website and install. Solution: Download latest pack of Microsoft Visual C++ 2015. Install the package and retry vCenter Installation. It will fix the issue. Thanks for visiting here.…
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Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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