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Here are my quick and dirty notes while I was preparing for the VMware vCloud VCA certification. Cloud Deployment Models The cloud can be deployed in one of four ways: Private cloud: all the hardware and the software is owned by the organization management and monitoring is the responsibility of the organization (the IT department) builds on top of traditional virtualization technologies (think vSphere) resources are almost always guaranteed  Community Cloud: the cloud is shared by two or more organizations that have similar technical requirements Public Cloud: is hosted on the provider network resource management and monitoring is the responsibility of the cloud provider  resources are transparently shared by customers providers should allow customers to oversubscribe resources, without impacting other customers’ vDC performance providers should enforce security and prevent unauthorized access between Org vDCs providers allow customer to provision resources for future growth Hybr...

In this tutorial we’ll learn : –         How to push an IOS image into a switch flash disk, using Cisco LMS, –         How to verify that the IOS image has been loaded correctly Pushing the IOS image 1.       On the LMS home page, click on the Resource Manager Essentials link. 2.       Click on Software Distribution    3.       Choose a distribution method. By default, I use “by device”. That’s the simplest one 4.       Check the device for which you want to upgrade the IOS and click Next 5.       The Distribute by Devices windows opens. Under Image Options , select the desired IOS image. Note that an image prefixed by an asterisk means that it’s a Cisco-recommended one. The Storage Options shows you how much flash disk space you still have. Here, we want to deploy a 9.33MB image on a flash disk that has 23MB left out of 31MB. 6.       Click Next 7.       LMS gives you a warning. But don’t worry, just click Next 8.       The Job Schedule and Options allows to schedule job...