Introduction
Continuing my series as I work through the CCNA syllabus. The introduction to the series can be found here.
I will be pretty much following the CCNA Composite Exam Blueprint point for point. One post per bullet point. I’m using Version 11 (640-802). Continue reading
Now this may not be of interest to everybody 
but VMware Press, the official publisher of VMware books and training materials, has launched a 60 day Facebook sweepstakes beginning today the May 1 and running through to June 30th. The Prize offerings include a $100 Amazon gift card and three VMware Press books of the winner’s choice; the nine second prize winners will win an eBook of their choice. Good luck – enter now!
Introduction
Continuing my series as I work through the CCNA syllabus. The introduction to the series can be found here.
I will be pretty much following the CCNA Composite Exam Blueprint point for point. One post per bullet point. I’m using Version 11 (640-802). Continue reading
Introduction
Continuing my series as I work through the CCNA syllabus. The introduction to the series can be found here.
I will be pretty much following the CCNA Composite Exam Blueprint point for point. One post per bullet point. I’m using Version 11 (640-802). Continue reading
Introduction
This is the first post in a series as I work through the CCNA syllabus. The introduction to the series can be found here.
I will be pretty much following the CCNA Composite Exam Blueprint point for point. One post per bullet point. I’m using Version 11 (640-802). Continue reading
What a depressing title for a blog. Why? That’s a good question. Why did I fail it? Why am I blogging about it? Showing the world what I can’t do? Even more to the point, why am I invading PlanetVM to blog about it? Well let’s start with the first question, and see if it takes us to an answer to them all.
Why did I fail it? Because I didn’t know the stuff. It’s that brutally simple.
I don’t think I’m that stupid. I’ve been “in the game” for a good 10 years. I’ve been responsible for networks for SMEs from 30 users and a single site, up to 400 users over 25 sites. I’ve done dial-up in the US, and HSRP in the core. I’ve done all that whilst having to troubleshoot Linux, and Windows and AWS instances, and …. It goes on. It’s not special. Thousands of people like me do this every day.
But I should have had a CCNA years ago. I wanted a CCNA years ago, and never got around to it. Recently I got the chance, and I jumped at it. I jumped too quickly. I picked the date. I perused some websites, and kidded myself I know what I was doing. Did you hear the thud this morning as I hit the ground?
Remember that guy in high school, who finished the exam in half the allotted time, and spent the rest doodling and writing out guitar tab? Then got an A? That was me. Not today it wasn’t. 5 questions left with 00:00:00 on the clock. You can’t argue with a computers time keeping, but jeepers, did someone turn the clocks back early? I’ve read plenty of times about Cisco exams and time management. Nothing brings that home like checking how long you have to do this question, and seeing 10 bright red seconds turn to 9…..
What about the questions, surely I could answer them? Right? Well, almost it seems. The blueprint doesn’t give any idea of the depth these questions go into. You really need to know this stuff backwards. That is the biggest, most important lesson I’ve learnt today. I thought I knew this stuff. I’ve barely scratched the surface.
So now we are back to why I’m blogging about it. Einstein famously said that if you can’t teach something to a 5 year old, you don’t really know it. I do have a 5 year old test subject. But he’d get pretty bored of sub-netting, pretty damned quick (don’t we all?). So I’m going for the next best thing. I intend to take the blueprint. I intend to take the topics one at a time and blog about them. If I can’t make a sensible post about the point. I don’t know it well enough. I intend to do the posts “blind”, off line, closed book. Then check them afterwords and see where I went wrong.
I’ve known Tom now for a good few years, and he’s very kindly offered to host these posts, mostly for his own nefarious reasons. I am happy to oblige by rounding out planet VM with some networking snippets of which this series is only the first!
Finally I’m going to ask you. My imaginary friends who I hope read this, and Tom’s loyal followers to do me a favour. Pick the posts apart. Show me the nuance I’m missing, tell me when I’m outright wrong and haven’t even noticed it, and hey, maybe we’ll all learn something.
This is the third of the week and it is a bit of a catch all, note that vCenter Server, Orchestrator, Update Manager, vShield, the Client and both ESX and ESXi are involved
| Synopsis: | VMware vCenter Server, Orchestrator, Update Manager, vShield, vSphere Client, ESXi and ESX address several security issues |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 2012-03-15 |
| Updated on: | 2012-03-15 (initial advisory) |
| CVE numbers: | CVE numbers: CVE-2012-1508, CVE-2012-1509, CVE-2012-1510, CVE-2012-1512, CVE-2012-1513, CVE-2012-1514, CVE-2011-3190, CVE-2011-3375, CVE-2012-0022, CVE-2010-0405 — JRE — See references |
This is the second, and is an update, this one is only of interest to those that are using vSphere 5.0
| Synopsis: | VMware ESXi and ESX updates to third party library and ESX Service Console |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 2012-01-30 |
| Updated on: | 2012-03-15 |
| CVE numbers: | — COS Kernel — CVE-2011-0726, CVE-2011-1078, CVE-2011-1079, CVE-2011-1080, CVE-2011-1093, CVE-2011-1163, CVE-2011-1166, CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495, CVE-2011-1577, CVE-2011-1763, CVE-2010-4649, CVE-2011-0695, CVE-2011-0711, CVE-2011-1044, CVE-2011-1182, CVE-2011-1573, CVE-2011-1576, CVE-2011-1593, CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-1746, CVE-2011-1776, CVE-2011-1936, CVE-2011-2022, CVE-2011-2213, CVE-2011-2492, CVE-2011-1780, CVE-2011-2525, CVE-2011-2689, CVE-2011-2482, CVE-2011-2491, CVE-2011-2495, CVE-2011-2517, CVE-2011-2519, CVE-2011-2901 — COS cURL — CVE-2011-2192 — COS rpm — CVE-2010-2059, CVE-2011-3378 — COS samba — CVE-2010-0547, CVE-2010-0787, CVE-2011-1678, CVE-2011-2522, CVE-2011-2694 — COS python — CVE-2009-3720, CVE-2010-3493, CVE-2011-1015, CVE-2011-1521 — python library — CVE-2009-3560, CVE-2009-3720, CVE-2010-1634, CVE-2010-2089, CVE-2011-1521 |
Just three advisories this week, and this is one for those that are running VMware View.
| Synopsis: | VMware View privilege escalation and cross-site scripting |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 2012-03-15 |
| Updated on: | 2012-03-15 (initial advisory) |
| CVE numbers: | CVE-2012-1508, CVE-2012-1509, CVE-2012-1510, CVE-2012-1511 |
OK so by now you know that Mr I will never have an Apple, has as a result of my new job become the possessor of a MBP. :S
So what was one of the first things I did, apart from changing the password 
That’s right downloaded and installed VMware Fusion. I thought I would show every body how easy it is to install Fusion on a MBP so here goes.
one go to theVMware download site as shown below
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Click the Download button.
Read the EULA 
Click Yes to agree, or it all stops here
I chose the small file as I already have a AV product. once the file has downloaded, Double click the file in Finder.
then simply move the VMware Fusion Icon to the Application Folder and wait……..
Yes that is really it. Fusion is now installed and you are ready to start running lovely VM’s on your OSx environment.