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VMworld first sessions unofficially announced…

Duncan Epping · Jun 3, 2009 ·

VMworld 2009 – August 31 -Sept 3. | The Moscone Center, San Francisco

I opened up tweetdeck this morning and noticed that some of the first VMworld 2009 sessions have been approved and unofficially announced. I was really surprised to find an email this morning that my session had been approved, I totally forgot about the fact that Rick(VMwaretips.com) submitted a session and that I was listed as one of the presenters. As you can see below Rick, Scott Lowe and myself will be doing a session on Virtualization Design. It’s an interactive session so we will need you guys to participate!

Of course Eric Sloof aka Mr Scoop broke the news:

TA2650 “Take PowerShell and the VI Toolkit to the Next Level” @LucD22 and @halr9000
TA2259 “Ask the Experts – Virtualization Design” @rick_vmwaretips, @depping and @scott_lowe
TA2262 “vSphere Enterprise Stability – It’s all in the Design” @rick_vmwaretips

And of course @cshanklin is one of the lucky ones. I think his session will have to do something with the vSphere PowerCLI. I didn’t hear anything about my submission though. I will keep a close watch on my inbox.

Update more unofficial announcements:
VM3040 “High performance VI Operations Checklist” @stevie_chambers
VM3041 “Integrating Virtualization with Capacity Management” @stevie_chambers
VM3743 “Automating Continuous Software Integration Testing for SaaS on VMware” @mcowger
VM2648 “Managing Compliance in Virtual Environments” @daveshackleford

I still owed you guys a picture…

Duncan Epping · May 15, 2009 ·

I still owed you guys something. Here’s the list of the people that where awarded the VCDX certification during the VMware TS vSummit 2009 in San Francisco:

  1. John Arrasjid (US)
  2. Mostafa Khalil (US)
  3. Kamau Wanguhu(US)
  4. Andrew Hald (US)
  5. Mahesh Rajani (US)
  6. Craig Risinger (US)
  7. Duncan Epping (Netherlands)
  8. Richard Damoser (Germany)

The vSummit award dinner was on Wednesday evening. Unfortunately Spencer Critchlow(VCDX 009, UK), Aidan Dalgleish(VCDX 010, UK) and Paul Nothard(VCDX 011, UK) were all scheduled on Friday and that’s why they are not in the picture. On the picture, but not VCDX’s: Melissa Tuite and Enis Konuk.

From left to right:
John Arrasjid, Mostafa Khalil, Craig Risinger, Enis Konuk, Melissa Tuite, Andrew Hald, Kamau Wanguhu, Duncan Epping, Richard Damoser and Mahesh Rajani.

I want to thank Thomas MacKay for the picture!

VCDX007

Duncan Epping · May 7, 2009 ·

It’s almost 01:00 so I’m keeping it short. The news was already published on twitter by my friend @stevie_chambers anyway so half of you already know… During the VMware vSummit award dinner I was awarded the VCDX certification. I’m officially a VCDX and I’m number 007!

I will probably have a picture up here tomorrow…. I’m really excited about this as you can imagine!

VCDX Design Exam: been there, done that!

Duncan Epping · Apr 29, 2009 ·

I just received the following email:

Duncan,

I just wanted to let you know that you have passed the VI3 Design exam, the third of five parts of the VCDX certification program. Next steps are the submission of applications and then the defense.

Scoring our exams took a long time because we were in the alpha group. But I passed… I’m happy! I just submitted my Design and all application forms, and I’ve got the defense scheduled for upcoming Monday! Yihaaa,

VCP, VCDX… what’s next?

Duncan Epping · Apr 15, 2009 ·

Master VCP! How cool does that sound?

The VCDX, as cool as it is, is specifically targeted at a solution architect level. It is not for everyone. What should be for all of you is a “next” level. This “Master VCP” certification is something that we are working very hard on being able to provide soon. It would involve being a VCP, then taking the Enterprise Administration Exam, which is part multiple choice, part practical. That exam has limited scalability at this point, and we can’t roll out this certification until we resolve that issue. Of course that is only one factor, but it is the main limiting factor at this point.

So for all of you wanted the next level of mastery, just stay tuned and we will have it for you soon…

Jon C. Hall
Technical Certification Developer

For those who read Erik Zandboer’s blog on the VCDX Design Exam, Jon Hall also commented on the blog… take a look if you scheduled the Design beta exam or if you recently did the exam it contains useful information.

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist and Distinguished Engineering Architect at Broadcom. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan is the co-author of the vSAN Deep Dive and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan is also the host of the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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