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Thank you! The road to RHCA was long -- 10 months to be exact -- but it was worthwhile. I'm almost done preparing the rest of the recorded practice sessions for EX188. I should have all of them online in the next week (two at the most).

Thank you and, good luck on your exam. I finished my 5th exam and earned RHCA on December 31st. Now I’m working on uploading my backlog of recorded practice sessions for each of the exams :)

@ Oh Wow! Congrats! Lol. I should be RHCA certified by next year. Possibly the end of this year. Awesome job! It must be a great and accomplishing feeling

I suggest checking out the Red Hat Developer Subscription. For anyone preparing for Red Hat certifications, that's what I recommend so you can practice on actual RHEL.

Good suggestion!

Thank you for watching! I've been removed from having to purchase Windows server licensing for a few years now -- I mainly work with Linux systems now, so things might have changed. Ultimately, you'll need to have enough Windows Server Data Center licenses to cover the cores on your system. Also note that I do not think you can buy "Server 2016" licenses. When you buy Windows Server licenses you buy current and typically have "downgrade rights" to use older OSes -- I cannot remember if you have to have Software Assurance to have this right. I would suggest digging through Microsoft licensing documentation then verifying what you find with your Microsoft reseller.

@@EddieJennings Thanks for the fast reply and info. Have great day and thanks again.

Thank *you* for being a subscriber!

Whoops- Looks like CentOS doesn't come in with the shortcut pre-made. But personally, I'll just make my own put and still use CTRL+ALT+T

It's hard to believe it's been 5 years since I made my KVM videos. I need to refresh them sometime. To answer what I believe you are asking, "no," you can set up all of your hypervisor networking bits prior to making your VMs.

I intend to. I have one more exam for which I’m preparing. Once I pass it, I’ll have time to start uploading practice sessions of the exams I’ve been working this year.

Glad it was helpful. I use the preview every time I have to update README markdown files.

Even though these videos are a bit dated, I'm glad it was helpful!

Thanks for watching. I'm glad this was helpful!

I've been removed from having to deal with Windows server licensing for a while. I now mainly work with Linux systems, so thing might have changed. I recommend digging through some Microsoft documentation to verify (or dispute) what I say. To be clear, this video was about Windows Server CALs, not RDS CALs. Remote Desktop Services has its own CAL requirement that is separate but in addition to Windows Server CALs. So assuming you're asking me just about Windows Server CALs, a user CAL grants one user the right to access any number of Windows servers. So when you purchase the user CAL for user A, then user A can legally access all of your the Windows physical servers and Windows VMs in your environment. So for your example, you'd buy a user CAL for each human that's accessing your systems. There are device CALs, but, in my experience, rarely are they worth some of the administrative overhead. Keep things simple, number of humans accessing any Windows server in your environment = number of User CALs, you need.

I'm learning myself, but from my best understanding the difference between 2> and 2>> is this. So 2>, you're taking standard error and you're just OVERwriting a file. VS 2>> where you're taking standard error and ADDING to a file (appending it).

I'm glad it was helpful. It's been over 20 years since I've been in undergrad and went through theory and ear training. I remember many friends of mine struggling with harmonic intervals.

Congratulations on your success, and I'm glad I could be of help!

I'm glad that was helpful. It was a light bulb moment for me as well when I was learning and realized it.

You're welcome! Thank you for being a subscriber.

Thanks for the kind words. I finished the gauntlet of 5 exams for RHCA a few days ago, so I'm finally getting back to uploading my practice sessions!

Thank you for watching! Here is what I found regarding the current EX200 exam. www.redhat.com/en/services/training/ex200-red-hat-certified-system-administrator-rhcsa-exam?section=objectives

@@EddieJenningsthank you

Thanks for being a subscriber. I may look into Openshift in the future. This year was the year of RHCA, which I finished on December 31, 2024. I enjoyed the process, but am done with tests for a while. :)

Thank you for watching and being a subscriber. Remember these are just my practice sessions. I was learning as I went along so I don't advertise these as tutorials :). I have finally finished the exams I intended to take, so I now have time to go back and upload my recorded practice sessions. I'll have the rest of my EX188 practice sessions up soon.

Thanks for watching. As of today, I am a Red Hat Certified Architect in infrastructure. EX188 was one of the five exams I completed to earn that. Plans may (and probably will) change, but I intend to keep RHCA active and when it comes time to start taking more exams to keep it up, I'll probably be focusing on Openshift stuff. That's a couple of years away, so Openshift might be something else by then.

Thank you for watching!

Thanks for watching. I (unfortunately) haven't been in an environment that uses HCI. My initial thought is each individual host is considered for Windows Server licensing (just like a traditional environment where separate hypervisor boxes are in a cluster). Thus, you'd need 48 cores of Data Center licensing, since each of you three servers happens to match the minimum of 16 cores per server. So assuming my understanding is still correct, you are right. I'm unsure what the sweet spot is now for when the math makes sense to move from Standard to Data Center when just considering the number of VMs, but that would be easy to calculate from some quotes from your reseller. I seem to remember it was in the teens years ago. I'd recommending digging into this, www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/windows-server, and comparing what you find with what you reseller tells you about licensing and being in an HCI environment. The more I dig into the RHEL, Ubuntu, and $insert_distro_here world, the less time I've had to keep up with Windows server licensing.

Thanks for watching. It does feel that way, doesn't it? I've been detached from having to dig into Microsoft licensing for a little bit now, since I'm mostly working with Linux environments, but I'm fairly sure the product + CAL model is still alive and well in the Microsoft world. I think Microsoft sees RDS services (not the couple of RDP connections you can make for system administration, but actually setting up connection broker and all of that) as a product on top of Windows server; thus, why licensing it requires its unique CAL in addition to the Windows Server CAL you would've already purchased just to interact with a Windows server.

Thank you for watching! Remember, my practice session are just that, practice sessions. They're not authoritative, but I try to have the info right ;) I would look into a Red Hat Developer Subscription. I can't remember off the top of my head if it includes Openshift, but I *think*, even if it doesn't Red Hat offers a trial that you could use for your practice. I would think for EX188 you shouldn't need experience with Openshift to prepare, since there's nothing about Openshift in the objectives. My formal training for the exam came from a Red Hat Learning Subscription, which includes practice labs and such. For my final prep, I worked through the objectives on my own RHEL VMs using Podman. So I would suspect practicing Podman things on your own RHEL VMs would be fine. Again, look into the Red Hat Developer Subscription, because at the very least, you are entitled to 16 RHEL instances, so you can practice in the same environment on which you'll be tested.

You're welcome. Thank you for watching!

Thank you! More will be coming soon(TM). I'm working toward my RHCA and have four more exams ahead of me. I'm recording my practice sessions for them, but my study pace isn't allowing much time for preparing them for TH-cam. They'll come eventually!

@@EddieJennings Yah is had preparing for RHCA. I am planning to do same but i just passed EX188 so that my RHCSA and RHCE can be renewed, then i can choose the next 4 exams to focus on.

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with virtualization options for Mac since the shift to their ARM architecture. If you have an old computer around, you could probably install Fedora (or RHEL from the Red Hat Developer Subscription) or another distro and get KVM going to run some RHEL VMs to practice.

Glad you found me! I need to get back to making some more music / music ed content. My IT activities are monopolizing my outside-of-work time (looking at you Red Hat certifications).