Thank you. I see it now on Firefox. The issue was that I had flash disabled. The video would still play, but that toggle was missing. After enabling flash, the toggle appeared.

By repeatedly pressing the Tab key. In Powershell, press Tab to complete the command or filename with one possibility; if it isn't the right one, press Tab again to try a different one. If you press Tab too many times and pass the one you are looking for, press Shift-Tab to go backwards.

This is a bit different from other shells like Linux bash and Cisco IOS, where Tab will only complete a command when you've typed enough characters to identify a unique one. There is usually a way to get a list of commands or files starting with the characters you've typed. in bash, press Tab a second time. In Cisco IOS, press '?'.

jwbaker1,

We're using the Shure Lavalier Microphones - MX 150B/O for our shows. We are wired in and not wireless.

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Host, ITProTV

@rob-magary178 Can you reset the A+
Thanks!

See - MCSA Windows Server 2012 Course Subtitle: Configuring Advanced Windows Server 2012 Services - Certificate Services lesson

Timothy,

I've added your request to the official show request list. We don't have any plans on our current map of shows because they are more IT Professional related certifications but it doesn't mean we cannot. Since our shows are demand driven, our schedule revolves around what actually is in high demand.

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Host, ITProTV

Thanks, Ronnie!

I guess my main goal is to build the solid foundation about the fundamentals as you have mentioned. I think below is going to be my starting point.

CCNA - For Networking fundamentals. I realize the CCNA course is vendor specific, but I feel like it should cover most of the items that Network+ covers as well.
Security+ - For a baseline security course.
CCNA Security - For additional Network security
CEH
SSCP
CISSP

Well, HP and Certiport are doing a fine job of discouraging me from wasting any more time trying to pursue it.

As I stated, our company uses HP switches and I have talked with a previous manager and their company uses HP switches as well. He said they use them because hey are almost half the price of Cisco switches and some come with a lifetime warranty.

So I used my current employer provided HP training portal, looked for HP switches training. That is when I found the 'course' for the HP exam HP4-A02, Designing and Deploying Network Solutions. Only all that was was a link to Certiport. Spent thirty minutes on the telephone with them, they could not give me ANY information at all. They referred me back to HP, who then referred me back to Certiport, who again, sent me right back to HP. Finally a rep from Peason Vue called who sent me to New Horizons in Atlanta who said they did not know anything about the HP ATA certification. New Horizons did try to sell me a five day over the Internet live class for the CCNA for 'only' $2,505.00. I have my subscription to ITProTV for 1/4 of that so why would I waste that amount of money?

Thank you,

David JR

Thanks Don for all your advice. My boss has every cert, it seems like, known on this planet. Your vids and Q&A put me just slightly higher in advantage. TY

I ended up using the stand alone converter to an external HD. When I did go to import the saved data into the datastore, I got an error 7 message when powering on. I was able to test in VMplayer before reloading the server with ESXI, so I thought everything was good. So, I reloaded the box with ESXI and away I went. This is where I ran into trouble.

Youtubing like crazy; I found a solution. Downloaded VMware Workstation, imported the data, and then moved the VM across the network to ESXI. Worked perfectly!

Your show is great by the way! Is it true that if you have a device, like floppy disk showing up in your settings, or Serial, that if you disable that and don't need it, you will save on resources on the box and in ESXI?

@Kevin-Scott That's an interesting idea that I hadn't even crossed my mind. I'll forward it along to the rest of the team and see if anyone knows a good IT-Attorney. It would certainly be an interesting show.

Thanks,

Don Pezet
Host, ITProTV

Dane,

Along with what Lauren mentioned can you also tell us what OS and give us the name of specific video you're seeing the issue on so that we can try and recreate the issue you're having. This will give us the ability to try and compare apples to apples.

Lauren make a great point, the quality of the streams is not that one is a lower quality because it isn't. They really help us to try and cover every part of the globe as to where servers that you can reach are located.

If you're still unable to please submit a support ticket at support@itpro.tv or you can submit using the contact us link at the top of our site.

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Host, ITProTV

@Nightwing Congratulations on passing Network+ :) I'd echo what everyone else has already said and especially the idea of getting a mentor to help you shape your career goals. You've got the knowledge so be patient with yourself putting it into practice. If you want to keep studying and like the idea of coding, you could consider learnign some python or perl which will help you if you move into penetration testing in the future. Whatever you decide, all the best and enjoy the journey!

Darla,

Whatever show notes that we have for the CompTIA Security+ are posted under the video windows. This show was completed before we were keeping the show notes for each episode. So some episodes had them and some didn't. More than likely on the next refresh of the Security+ show, each episode will have show notes but currently, what we have is posted.

Please note, I deleted the duplicate topic post by you so that people would only need to read the question one time.

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Host, ITProTV

I found the HP cable at Diablo Cable. The switch I bought off of Ebay and still had the user name and password . . . But HP's site had the PDF's on how to clear that and then how to set up web access. Had to install then configure Java first. But it was fun and challenging - now back to the Cisco switches.

I'm going through the videos at the moment, so this is fresh in my mind. In real life you will want to have vCenter in a separate machine. For learning, you can use your system to bring up a virtual machine for vCenter Server.

Downloading and deploying the vCenter Server Appliance 5.x (2007619)
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2007619

Zak,

This is something that we're working on and it's part of the future of ITProTV but not yet.

In Firefox, there is a 1.25X button in the upper left hand button of the recorded content videos but this is just for beta testing and likely to be buggy. We've had problems with firefox not rendering our videos very well at all. The playback quality has been poor with this feature.

Cordially,
Ronnie Wong
Host, ITProTV

It really is mostly based on personal preference minus the few key points brought up. I am a VMware VCP 3, 4 and 5 and have over 7 years experience as a VMware consultant at various partners. So I am jaded on a combination of old school and VMware based technology (as opposed to Xen or Hyper-V). But the rules I go by are:

Never use extents (or dynamic disks in MS's world). It is essentially a software-based RAID 0. You loose a LUN to an over-zealous admin trying to clean up and you lost the whole extent (well, to be accurate you lost a lot of data, but not all, but that's not a whole lot better) Try not to mix workloads. I try to put disk intensive things like busy databases on their own LUN's and light workloads like domain controllers mixed on to larger LUN's. Even though most environments have a single SAN for multiple clusters, breaking out the heavy workloads still has advantages. One of the most important is that most SAN's these days do performance tracking and optimization per LUN. So that busy SQL DB can still get the SAN advantage if it is 1-to-1 DB to LUN. But if you busy that SQL server on a LUN with 10 other VM's of mixed loads, the other loads will mess up the SAN's performance numbers and the optimizations won't be as effective. It also gives you the flexability to move that LUN later on with less impact and the SAN based performance numbers of the business's main DB for their primary application can get you more money versus you struggling to figure out why your SAN seems to be performing badly. Separate based on size needed. Large servers like file servers with TB or more of data get their own LUN. I'm not going to fight that space battle. When in doubt, 750 GB is a good number. Leave an absolute minimum of 100 GB free for snapshots and logs. Disaster Recovery considerations. As Don mentioned, don't forget to take into account SAN replication. Many SANs will do better with incremental replication than the software counterparts. So do your homework first but if your homework will take too much time or is inconclusive, default to using the SAN based replication. That is nearly always done per LUN which means dividing your VM storage into LUNs that will be replicated and LUNs that will not be replicated.

Hope that helps you somewhat too.