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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

Best of luck to you. Make sure you read all tasks before you start working on them.

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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.

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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 RUclips. 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).

can i pls buy your study guide

@@nathanielsua7218 my study guide? I studied with the official red hat materials and free resources, mainly youtube Videos like this one

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Congratulations on your persistence and your pass! You should be proud of your achievement. A non-trivial amount of work goes into the preparation for any Red Hat exam!

True. I am joing all my strength to do RHCE as soon as possible.

Congratulations!!!!

@@brookesmithraines4996 thanks you. It is very demanding exam but not impossibile.

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It's been many years since my undergraduate ear training classes. I remember our instructor giving us suggestions on how to practice identifying intervals, but ultimately she said (and rightfully so) we had to figure out whatever method worked for us individually. I remember learning / identifying the timbre of the intervals helped.

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From a technical perspective, yes. You'd need to have something you can boot into (such as an install ISO flashed onto a USB drive), then delete / reformat whatever file system exists on your server and install a new OS. Depending on the OS you choose to install, you may need to pay for licensing.

Whatever is available in the configured repositories you should be able to install. For me, I just used vi. I’m not a master of it, but I use it enough to be comfortable with doing text editing.

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I'm fairly detached from Microsoft licensing since I mainly work in the Linux world now, but I don't think the CAL stuff has changed much. That being said your understanding is close. - You buy a Windows server license, whose licensing model is Server + CAL. - You need a CAL (client access license) to cover anything accessing / using that Windows server (not just things accessing the server from a LAN). There are generally two ways of handling this. You can use User CALs (most common, I think), which for you user grants them rights to access any of your Windows Servers of the appropriate version, regardless of the number of devices they use. You can use Device CALs, which for you device that accessing your Windows servers, grants unlimited users of that device rights to access your Windows servers of the appropriate version. Unless you're managing an environment with something like kiosks which have many users using a single device (think day shift, then night shift), it's usually easier to use User Cals. Since you have the less administrative overhead or just knowing you need one CAL per user, and that covers the users to access all of your Windows servers from all of their devices. - Extension: Let's say you buy licenses to cover two Windows Servers. You do not have to buy two CALs for everyone. The one user CAL grants that user rights to access all of your Windows servers. - RDS is a different beast. You can have make up to two (I think) RDP connections to a Windows server for administration tasks and such. That doesn't require CALs beyond Windows Server CALs. But if you actually deploy the RDS feature and with it setup all of the pieces (connection broker, etc.), then any users using that RDS service will need the appropriate RDS CAL, in addition to the Server CAL they have granting rights to just Windows server. Perhaps someone more familiar with current licensing can chime in and correct any mistakes I made above. If I were having to deal with Microsoft licensing more often, I'd be talking to my reseller + reading Microsoft's own documentation about it to figure out what the actual deal is. "So why did I pay to purchase that car in the first place if I have to pay more just drive that car myself and for each person I would carry in that car?" If it makes you feel any better, once each person has their car CAL, they can ride in as many cars as you buy without having to purhcase additional car CALs. :)

Thank you. Hopefully that professor was good :). I'm happy (and a little surprised) that CAL licensing has been seemingly unchanged despite the age of this video. As you'll probably see me comment elsewhere I don't deal with this day-to-day anymore, so make sure you check current documentation / talk to your reseller, etc.

@@EddieJennings Thanks for the reply! Yes, i think most of it remains unchanged. And yes, he was great :D

Thank you! I appreciate your kind words. :) I'm working on my RHCA and trying to finish it before February 2025. I've passed EX188 and preparing for EX374 at the moment. My intended path is probably a little scattered since I'm balancing stuff I want to learn and work on with things that would be useful for my job. I took EX188 to fill a skills gap of container basics that I've wanted to fill for a while, though I don't work with containers at my job. EX374 is about Ansible, which I touch daily. I'm recording practice sessions as I get close to each exam, but alas, the pace for preparing for the exams isn't leaving me much time for video editing for RUclips. Granted my editing is mainly removing pauses and upping the volume on audio, but it still takes time. I *will* eventually get all of the practice sessions uploaded, but it may be a while.

​@@EddieJennings You are making awesome progress! Best wishes towards reaching your Feb 2025 RHCA goal!

You're welcome, and thank you for being a subscriber! I was successful on EX188. Onward to EX374 now! With the pace that I'm preparing for the exams, I haven't had much time to prepare these videos for uploading. I'll be recording practice sessions for everything, and will eventually get them uploaded.

Yeah. That can be a bit confusing. I'm pretty sure development of Visual Studio Code is public. Perhaps you should put in a feature request!

You're welcome. I've long since switched to Kdenlive for editing, but I'm glad this video is still useful!

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The longer I focus on RHEL and other Linux infrastructure in my professional capacity, the more estranged I become with the Microsoft world. With the exception of a few workloads, I believe Windows Server CALs are required to anything accessing a Windows server in basically any way. Whether or not your Windows server is providing directory services (AD) is irrelevant. For example, if you're providing DHCP services using Windows server, a CAL is needed for anything consuming those DHCP services. Back in the day (read 5 years ago or so), most system administrators would just purchase a user CAL for all users in their organization and call it a day, rather than trying to have a device CAL for every device. I'm not up-to-date with licensing regarding M365 and the like. I know the CAL requirements are the same, but I don't know if newer Microsoft SaaS offerings have the CAL baked in somehow. A quick consult of Dr. Google found this, which may be helpful. www.microsoft.com/en-us/licensing/product-licensing/client-access-license

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Thank you for the kind words. I'm getting farther and farther removed from the Microsoft licensing world, since my day-to-day is dealing with Linux infrastructure, but it seems the basic principles of CALs remain the same. Methinks CALs will be with us until the end of time.

There would be more to it. You'd likely have to deploy the actual Remote Desktop Services (RDS) service and with that service comes its own CALs, which I believe are in addition to good ole standard Windows Server CALs.

Nice tip!

Thanks for the kind words, and you're welcome. I publish this and anything else because I enjoy it, and if it can help someone, then the views are an added bonus :). I try to make it very clear with my practice sessions are they are just that. I was learning the materials as I recorded those sessions, so they're not designed to be tutorials. However, I figure publishing these sessions might be helpful for others to get ideas about how they (you) can prepare for whatever exam you're taking. Best of luck with your RHCE prep!