Tuesday, September 21. 2010
Looking for VCAP practice questions? Here they are...
Monday, September 20. 2010
Video - VMware vCenter AppSpeed 1.5
Sunday, September 19. 2010
VCP4 Practice Questions
Fellow VMware Certified Instructor Paul McSharry over at Elastic Sky has released a new series of VCP practice questions based on vSphere 4.1. To be honest I just did the test and although my performance has been rated as 'Good', I only scored 18 out of 25. Let’s see if you can do better.
Here you will find a growing number of practice exam tests. I have based these questions from the official documentation and my own practical experience. They are completely braindump free, please do you not use braindump materials, instead have fun learning to use an excellent technology!
http://www.elasticsky.co.uk/practice-questions/
Saturday, September 18. 2010
How to get a 50% discount on your VCAP4 exam
To help you prepare for the VCAP exams, VMware Education recommends that you attend one of their new vSphere courses designed to cover the topics from the VCAP4 exam blueprints. And to help you even more, if you attend on of the recommended preparation course listed below between September 1th and November 30, you will receive a 50% off exam voucher applicable for either VACP4-DCA or VCAP4-DCD.
VCAP-DCA Preparation Courses
VMware vSphere: Troubleshooting
VMware vSphere: Manage for Performance
VMware vSphere: Manage and design for Security
VMware vSphere: Automation with vSphere PowerCLI
VCAP-DCD Preparation Course
VMware vSphere: Design Workshop
How it works: Within a week of completing one of the select courses, a 50% off VCAP4 exam voucher will be emailed to you. When registering for a VCAP4 exam enter the voucher number to receive your discount.
Thursday, September 16. 2010
Ulli Hankeln to the rescue – The VMDK Handbook
Ulli is going to attend the VMworld 2010 in Copenhagen and can be found on Twitter @sanbarrow
Wednesday, September 15. 2010
RVTools version 2.9.5 has been released
Rob de Veij over at Robware.net has released version 2.9.5 of the most awesome utility I know, well if you don’t count in the vmClient :-) You better check out the newest release of RVTools. I already did, and recorded a walkthrough which can be watched here in HD quality. You can also take a peek at Vimeo.
RVTools is a windows .NET 2.0 application which uses the VI SDK to display information about your virtual machines and ESX hosts. Interacting with VirtualCenter 2.5, ESX 3.5, ESX3i, ESX4i and vSphere 4 RVTools is able to list information about cpu, memory, disks, nics, cd-rom, floppy drives, snapshots, VMware tools, ESX hosts, nics, datastores, switches, ports and health checks. With RVTools you can disconnect the cd-rom or floppy drives from the virtual machines and RVTools is able to list the current version of the VMware Tools installed inside each virtual machine and update them to the latest version.
Version 2.9.5 (September, 2010)
• On vInfo tab new field: Guest heartbeat status. The heartbeat status is classified as: gray - VMware Tools are not installed or not running, red - no heartbeat, guest operating system may have stopped responding. yellow -intermittent heartbeat, may be due to guest load. green - guest operating system is responding normally
• On vMemory tab new fields: Ballooned memory, consumed overhead memory, private memory, shared memory, swapped memory and static memory entitlement
• On vDatastore tab new field: Full device address (controller, target, device)
• On vInfo tab new fields: Commited storage, uncommited storage and unshared storage
• Bug fix! A semicolon in the annotations fields are no longer a problem for the export functions
• Bug fix! Health check "Zombie vmdk" problems solved
• Bug fix! Health check "inconsistent foldername" problems solved
• Bug fix! On vport tab the column "notify switch" value solved
• Bug fix! Sort problem on vNic tab on column "speed" solved