My VMWare Certifications
Monthly Archives: October 2013
My VCAP-CIA Experiance
I’ve been spending the last two months getting my certifications up to date as my old VCP 3 fell out of date when formal support finished for it earlier in the year. I’ve been working with VMWare’s ESX/vSphere stack since … Continue reading
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Tagged Certification, vcap-cia, vcloud, VCP-Cloud, VCP5-DCV, VMWare, vsphere
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Completing the Clean Sweep of VCA exams
This week I took my third VCA (VMWare Certified Associate) exam, VCA-WM, and passed. The exam itself is 100% based on the Workforce Mobility self paced online course on the VMWare training site. I sat the exam straight after the … Continue reading
VMWare offering a second shot at VCPs and VCAPs in Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan & Korea
VMWare are very kindly offering a free second chance at their VCP and VCAP exams until 31st March 2014 for VMWare pro’s in Australia, New Zealand, India, Japan & Korea. Click on this link to access the codes. Here’s a list of … Continue reading
New VMWare Hands On Labs (HOL) Announced
There has been new Hands-on Labs announced By VMWare. Log into the Online Portal at http://labs.hol.vmware.com. There are now 16 lab topics available, free to everyone. Labs are listed below along with a direct link to enroll in the lab. Labs … Continue reading
VMWare VM Hardware Version 10 Warning!
Just a quick shoutout to tell any of my readers to avoid upgrading critical infrastructural VMs to Hardware Version 10. In the event the web-client isn’t functional you won’t have the fat client in Windows to help rescue the day. … Continue reading
NIC label issue when deploying CentOS 6.x VMs with vCloud Director
I came across a small issue relating to the the labelling of the primary NIC (eth0) inside a deployed VM. It seems that due to the templating and then deployment of the VM the Linux hardware detection process sets the … Continue reading
vCloud Director 5.1: Install, Configure & Manage
This week I finally took a bit of time off work and sat the vCD 5.1: ICM course hosted by New Horizons. Unusually for courses I’ve taken in the past it was an Online ‘Live’ Course with the instructor running … Continue reading
