Due to a change in Jon Hall’s schedule, the VCP Brown Bag for May 18th has been canceled and moved to the 25th. This also means that I had to push the VCDX Brown Bag on the 25th out to June 1st. Those of you registered should have received notifications, those of you not registered
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After the excellent conversation we had last time, we’ve scheduled Jon Hall to come talk VMware Certification again this week. If you were there for the last one, you know you won’t want to miss this. If this is your first time… you will want to make every effort to be there, trust us. Critical
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The show notes for this are more or less lost at this point. Whoops. That said, the video is online. This one felt more like teaching a class than a discussion around certification, but as awkward as that was for us to handle, I think we did “ok”. You tell me. VCP Brown Bag #7
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I believe we’ve covered networking before, but alas, that was before we started recording these. So… for the sake of completeness we will cover it this time around. First the critical call details: Date: May 4, 2010 @2PM CST Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/875600073 Note: VMware has a Free VCP Voucher offer, check here for details.
This weeks call with Jon Hall was full of interesting folks and even more interesting information about the VMware certification tracks. Note: Due to the content of the video VMware kindly requested I remove it until they make their official announcements in the not too distant future. I want to thank again everyone for coming
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Note: The follow-up video has been posted here. The video suffered, but the audio is what you’re after. It’s that time again. Time for another VCP Brown Bag. This time, we’ll also have a special guest: VMware’s Certification Tsar, Jon Hall. We’ll go over some of the recent certification news, VMware’s different tracks, and anything
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We had an excellent turn out this time, and hope to see some more folk continue to join us. In addition to the illustrious Tom Howarth of PlanetVM.net, we also had Jason Boche of Boche.net, who has become a regular at these. A great thanks goes out to both of these folks, as well as
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In this edition of the VCP Brown Bag we’ll have an open topic session.Bring any questions you have about the VCP certification, and we’ll try to get them answered. The critical details for this Brown Bag: Date: April 6, 2010 Time: 2PM CST Registration: Here! Hope to see you there!
We had an all-star cast on the call yesterday, including TWO VCDXs #34 himself, Jason Boche and #29 Frank Denneman. There was even a bit of Twitter interaction from Duncan, pointing out that when it comes to HA, there can be only one. Unfortunately, due to the seat of the pants nature this call took,
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The reason this is a beta is we are testing a new platform for hosting these. I figure so long as we’re testing, might as well make it a live one, no? If you’re up for it, here are the critical details: Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010 Time: 2:00 PM CST Registration: Here! This session
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As promised, here is the follow-up post from yesterdays VCP4 Brown Bag. First, thanks Y’all for coming, as otherwise a single person conference call is no fun. Honestly, thanks for your participation! Now for the notes: Simon Long’s invaluable VCP4 study notes & practice exams: http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-upgrade-study-notes/ NFS Datastores (this came up discussing exclusivity for NFS):
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Since the deadline for the VCP4 upgrade has been extended, I figure I’d extend another online study group / exam brown bag. Bring your questions and your lunch (or dinner, or breakfast) and we’ll talk about the VCP exam. Already taken the exam? Well, come on anyways and share your experience and expertise! Details… Date:
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As promised, here is the follow-up post with the bits and links that we discussed during the study group. We had also discussed doing this again next week Wednesday at 3P CST (12/23/09) as a last bit of prep before the year end deadline for VCP upgrades. This will likely occur just after the VMTN
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The deadline to upgrade from VCP3 to VCP4 is fast approaching. While there are plenty of good resources out there for studying, nothing beats playing 20 questions with a group of your peers. As such, ProfessionalVMware will be hosting a 1 hour WebEx study group so we call all help one another pass. Important information:
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I have slacked on this post quite a bit, but alas an exam report is due. Exam: VCP-410 Status: Passed I was/am a present holder of a VCP3, and before 12/31 was allowed to upgrade without having to take an additional course. That said, there are now several valuable courses from VMware that qualify. Basically,
-> Continue reading Pass The VCP4! I Did, You Can Too!
I’ve been following Scott Vessey’s VMware Training Blog for a while now, and have overall been impressed with the content he’s managed to pump out. To that end, Scott has complied some of his content, as well as some new content into a new site called Think Virtually. For anyone training for the VCP, VCDX
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Amazon just posted my 3 star review of OnlineFlashCards for the VCP310. You can read the entire thing here. I’ve quoted some bits of it here: When I received the product, it came in a shrink wrapped box. Odd I thought, considering this is an online product, what is the box for? I shook it
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Today we continue along with the VCP4 Blueprint coverage (other objective 5.3 posts here and here). In this post we’ll wrap up 3.5 with some final coverage on vApps, specifically building and managing vApps in the vSphere 4 client when it is connected to vCenter server. Sound like fun? No? Trust me, it is. With
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While working through the VCP4 exam objectives I found a section on vApps. Specifically the line item around “Import/Export a Virtual Appliance”. Ignoring the rest, here is how you import and export vApps. Warning, this post is screenshot heavy. Importing There are two ways of going about this. “Deploy OVF” and “Browse VA Marketplace”. If
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Rather than post several follow-ups to the same post, it is likely best to collect all of my available resources into a single page. In keeping with that, this page will contain everything I have found or have been linked to for the VMware Certified Professional 4 (VCP4) certification. General Exam Info VCP4 Exam Blueprint
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