VMware is offering a free second chance if you fail for your first attempt and believe me the exam isn’t easy. I’ve seen a lot of VCP candidates fail at their first attempt. To be eligible for a free second chance, you must use a special promotion code when booking the first one. For a limited time, VMware is giving you a free second chance at the VCP4 exam when you register for a full-priced exam by following the steps below.
• Register to take the VCP4 exam at a Pearson VUE test center for the full price (no discounts apply) using the promotion code: VCPTAKE1.
• If you fail your first exam, simply schedule your “second chance” exam with the promotion code “VCPTAKE2” and it’s free! Please note that this discount will only be valid on retakes of exams that were initially scheduled using the “VCPTAKE1” promotion code and must be taken before July 31, 2011.
Sunday, March 13. 2011
VMware Certified Professional (VCP4) Free Second Chance
Saturday, March 12. 2011
Video – Creating web applications with WaveMaker
WaveMaker has recently been acquired by VMware. This partnership is the result of discussions that have been going on between WaveMaker and the SpringSource division of VMware for more than a year. WaveMaker is a visual development tool that lets everyone quickly build and deploy great-looking web and cloud applications. With WaveMaker, you can build a complete, 3-tier web application in minutes! Let’s see how it works – in this video I’ll show you a short WaveMaker demo. The community version of WaveMaker is available for download at: http://www.wavemaker.com/downloads/
Friday, March 11. 2011
My VCAP-DCD Exam Experience
Today, after a week of extensive blogging and prepping I’ve passed my VCAP-DCD exam :-) The exam consists of over one hundred questions ranging from "the simple multiple choice" and "choose all that apply" ones to the "create a diagram for the following situation" challenges. It’s hard to prep for this exam, either you know how to create a design or you don’t but a proper design is built upon up-to-date knowledge and that’s where you should work on if you don’t feel confident.
The exam is based on vSphere 4.1 so make sure you have in-depth knowledge about all the great features this release has brought us. The blueprint has links to PDF documents about LBT, Storage IO Control and Network IO Control to name a few and reading those document really has helped me passing the exam. Reading is not enough, create your own scenarios and configure things like shares and reservations in your lab, by learning this way it is much easier to memorize all the information from the PDF documents.
As a VMware Certified Instructor I’ve delivered the vSphere Design Workshop many times and although other people speak differently, I think the exam and the Design Workshop are perfectly aligned. After attending the Workshop, I would recommend to go through all the best practices and the Design Workflow once again before doing the exam. It will definitely help you. Although this exam wasn’t mandatory for me (VCAP-DCA is mandatory for delivering the advanced courses) it is a prerequisite for the VCDX defence and that’s my next goal.
Thursday, March 10. 2011
New Technical Paper - Performance of Multiple Java Applications in a VMware vSphere 4.1 VM
VMware has released a new technical paper regarding the performance of Multiple Java Applications in a VMware vSphere 4.1 Virtual Machine. This paper shows the results of tests that investigate the performance impact of running applications on multiple JVMs in a single virtual machine. These tests were conducted using the Olio application running in VMware vFabric tc Server 2.0 on VMware vSphere 4.1 Update 1. The intent of the investigation is to provide insight into the impact of sizing decisions when selecting the number of JVMs to deploy in a single VM.
Technical Paper - Performance of Multiple Java Applications in a VMware vSphere 4.1 Virtual Machine
Video - VMware vCenter Operations - Troubleshooting Workflow
This week was awesome and it isn’t even over yet. We had two new product launches and can expect some more fireworks in the coming days. Last Tuesday VMware has released vCenter Operations Standard, it’s a great new product which enables you to diagnose and analyse vSphere performance metrics. I’ve already blogged about it and also recorded a short demo video immediately after the release. VMware's Kit Colbert, lead engineer on vCenter Operations also recorded two great videos which will give you an in-depth overview of the vCenter Operations Standard edition and will learn you all about to the Troubleshooting Workflow.
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Video - VMware View Client for iPad
VMware View Client for iPad makes it easy to access your Windows virtual desktop from your iPad with the best possible user experience on the Local Area Network (LAN) or across a Wide Area Network (WAN).I’ve created a short demo video which unveils some cool features of the VMware View Client for iPad.