Got a couple of questions around this over the last few days and wanted to clear it up. The VCAP4-DCA (Datacenter Administrator) is 100% LAB based. For those who did the VI3 Enterprise Exam it will be similar to the second part of the exam. In other words you will receive multiple tasks and you will get a full vSphere [...]
I just received an email from Hari Krishnan who is a Senior Product Manager at VMware. Hari has created a survey and is looking for feedback from our customers. Not only will you be helping VMware out, you will also help out a charity organisation which will receive $ 10 for every response for the first 1000 respondents. So please [...]
I am working on a “top secret” upcoming product (around Cloud of course) and because of that I am testing various things. I had never noticed this before but today I wanted to change the size of a disk within vCenter as part of the test procedure. For some weird reason this option was greyed out: I checked if there [...]
Scott Lowe pointed to KB Article 1020524 in his short take article. Although I agree with Scott that it is a useful article it is actually technically incorrect. I wanted to point it out as when Scott points to something you know many will pick up on it. On Nehalem systems with Hardware assisted Memory Management Unit (MMU), TPS improves performance from 10 – 20% by using [...]
We had a discussion internally about performance and swapping. I started writing this article and asked Frank if it made sense. Frank’s reply “just guess what I am writing about at the moment”. As both of us had a different approach we decided to launch both articles at the same time and refer to each others post. So here’s the link to [...]
Looking at the VMware education website you can guess what the steps are to become a VCDX4: VCP4 → VCAP4-DCA → VCAP4-DCD → Approved Design → Successful Defense = VCDX4 Please keep in mind that I am just guessing here, and this is not an official statement. Updates on the VCDX section of the VMware website can be expected any time soon now. The [...]
VMware just announced/released a new certification called “VMware Certified Advanced Professional”. This certification sits in between VCP and VCDX! VCAP4 – Datacenter Administration Gain industry recognition for your technical leadership in the planning and administration of vSphere technologies. Learn more about VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration certification and get started today. Be a VMware Certified Professional 4 (VCP4) [...]
