In this blog I will post updates on progress towards completing the NET300 lab work.
In class during the mornings we have been doing theory work, specifically covering ITIL foundation and some VMware stuff. Some of the material we have been presented with I have covered last year or already know from previous experience.
All practical work in NET300 will be done with virtualization. Each student in NET300 gets their own “pod” in which they can create their virtual machines. And inside this pod will be another layer of virtualization.
So far I currently have in my pod a domain controller, dns, vcenter server and a NETAPP Data ONTAP storage server:
Roly-vDC (Domain controller and DNS)
Setting up the Domain controller was fairly straightforward, typical install, and I have done this many times before.
Roly-vVCS (V centre server)
Something newish to me, this will be the server for vcenter. This is used to control the virtual virtual machines inside my pod, which have not been created yet.
Roly-DATAONTAP (data ontap simulator)
This fancy wing ding of a machine holds the simulator for Data ONTAP storage, I’ve never touched this before and so it is a new experience for me. This machine has seen the most configurations. It has been reconfigured to now have 4 shelves of 14 x 4 GB.
Week of end 30th July – unsure of date. The week days before the date of this post. End of transmission.
Roly's NET300 