Woot! Yes, woot! Woot we will be having Elias Khnaser, the author of “VCP4 Exam Cram 2nd Edition” on our next BrownBag. Yeah, this book, right here: Cool? Ok, well, “We’ve had guests before” you say. “How is this one different?”, you say… well, it’s different in that, I have 5 copies of this book
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Tuesdays Brownbag had a good turn out and also featured the excellent debut of our newest co-host: Guillermo Rodriguez. Guillermo (Gee yair mo) like many of the folks on the call is a budding VCP, having taken his class, studying for his exam and interested in helping others reach the same goal. Video: We had
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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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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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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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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,
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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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Another interesting bit from the VCP4 blueprint was in a line item under the “Tools” section under objective 3.5. The tool is “OVF Tool”. New on me. Perhaps new on you too. It seems that there has not been much in the way of publicity about it. A Google search lead me to the this
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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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