MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE

I hope you, your family, and all your loved ones have a very Merry Christmas!

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PASSED VCP 5 EXAM!!!

On November 28, 2011 I passed my VCP 5 exam after a lot of study and lab time! It was probably the most challenging certification test I have taken since the VCP 2, 3, and 4 certifications.

As for blogging it has been a crazy year with virtualization keeping me so busy I have not been able to blog very much. Sorry about that folks...have to make that my New Years Resolution to do better on that front.

I really think you need to sit down and use the products for this VCP 5 test. I would really like the test to take on characteristics more like that of the VCAP test with virtual LAB and you are asked to perform skills you should have to pass, instead of the current form.

I would like to thank the following blogs and websites for their notes and infomation:

http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2011/10/studying-for-vcp5-exam.html?m=1

http://www.petri.co.il/vcp5-exam.htm

http://vinfrastructure.it/en/certifications-on-virtualization/vcp/vcp5/

http://vinfrastructure.it/en/2011/10/vcp5-blueprint-with-study-notes-ita/

http://www.valcolabs.com/

http://www.vreference.com/vsphere-5-notes/

http://virtuallanger.com/vcp5/

http://vcp5.wordpress.com/

http://damiankarlson.com/2011/11/01/vmware-vcp-5-resources/

http://cosonok.blogspot.com/2011/10/vcp510-vcp-on-vsphere-5-exam-cram-notes.html

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/

and the VMware education "What's New" Class!

MUST HAVE NEW FREE VMWARE ADMIN TOOL: UBERAlign

The tool and details: http://nickapedia.com/2011/11/03/straighten-up-with-a-new-uber-tool-presenting-uberalign/
Videos demonstrations of the tool in action:
http://vimeo.com/31555866
http://vimeo.com/31551540

Originally learned of the tool from here: http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2011/11/first-of-a-series-of-holiday-giftsuberalign.html

VMWORLD 2011 VSPHERE 5 AND POWERCLI POSTERS

Get them here: 

http://www.virtu-al.net/2011/09/05/vmware-management-with-powercli-5-0/

http://blogs.vmware.com/esxi/2011/09/vsphere-50-cli-reference-poster.html

VMworld 2011 PRESENTATION DOWNLOADS AVAILABLE

Finally, I could hardly wait for these to catch all the sessions I missed this year!

www.vmworld.com/login.jspa

VMWORLD 2011 SUNDAY:

I didn't have any travel issues due to Irene the Hurricane that went up the east coast. I got here at 9:30am Vegas time...and the Venetian had my room ready which was really awesome. After some breakfast and unpacking I headed down to registration at about 1:15pm and was surprised to see it already open and allowing a very fast registration process. Next I headed over to get in line for the opening of the Hand-On Labs. They have really done another great job this year and the crowd and Lab Crew were all showing their excitement. I did lab 16 the autodeploy which went well except their were some performance or some type of problem when installing PowerCLI which took about 15 minutes.

After my lab I needed to recharge on some food and that is when I saw this massive registration line, and a very long waiting line for the Labs.

A lab person came up and said it would be 2 hours before the next batch of those in line would be allowed in. Luckily, VMware has noticed the problems with registration and issued this statement:

"Registration is extended to 8pm tonight. We apologize for the long line. Reg also open at 6:30am Mon before sessions."

Well time to rest up and charge up all the gadgets... tomorrow will be a long and exciting day!

VSPHERE 5 IS NOW RELEASED!

http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_cloud_infrastructure/vmware_vsphere/5_0

VCP 5 MOCK EXAM NOW AVAILABLE

ntpro.nl announcement: http://alturl.com/mypfi

My learn site: http://mylearn.vmware.com/quiz.cfm?item=24908&ui=www_cert