In recent years, I have been working more and more in datacenter networking. It has happened to me on several occasions that during testing, the customer would contest that the network performance of the servers was lower than expected.

So I put on my systems engineer hat and dust off my VMware training.

This post is about the lack of best practices, workarounds, L2 extensions, tunnels and loops.

Fasten your seatbelt and prepare for a ride down the rabbit hole.

Today I passed exam 2V0-642 to update my VCP5-DCV and got VCP6-NV (NSX v6.2)

I'll share here what I used to prepare the exam.

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Today I passed exam VCP550 and got VMware VCP5-DCV certification.

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