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I've had a little interview with Gabrie van Zanten (Gabes Virtual World) about two new upcoming Storage Replication Adapters. Site recovery Manager communicates with storage arrays trough storage replication adapters (or SRAs). Storage replication adapters translate generic commands generated by SRM for tasks such as discovering arrays in the datacenter determining which LUNs are replicated by the arrays. SRAs also assist in initiating recovery plan tests and failovers.

With the announcement of the launch of VMware GO, VMware has finally entered the Hosted (Cloud/Web) Application market - Providing services to small and medium businesses to more easily manage their ESXi implementations.

This move may be an attempt by VMware to begin experimenting with ways of creating Hybrid Cloud environments in a future iteration of VMware GO. How would this work and how does GO work today? Dave McCrory, founder and CTO at Hyper9 is an Expert on Cloud Computing and Virtualization and has recorded the following video.

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I’ve recorded an interview with the EMEA UCS specialist/trainer Ron Heheman.

Eric Siebert over at vSphere-land is running a new blog contest which let you decide who the most favorite blogger is. You can pick your 10 most popular bloggers; based on your points Eric Siebert will create a vSphere-land blogger top 25. Please cast your vote and make a change to win a copy of the TrainSignal vSphere DVD training course.

Update from @ericsiebert via Twitter: Voting closes Friday for top bloggers, 800+ votes already, results will be published next Monday vote.vsphere-land.com

In order to meet the December 31st  2009 deadline, many people recently scheduled (and hopefully passed!) the exam with their local testing partner.  In fact, so many of you scheduled exams that some of the VCP3 professionals were unable to find a testing center with available seats prior to the December deadline.

VMware's Melissa Tuite:

In order to accommodate participants that despite best efforts were unable to schedule their exam prior to the deadline, VMware will continue accepting the VCP3 certification as a qualification to take the VCP4 exam without requiring attending the 'What's New" class through January 31st  2010.  We fully expect that the additional four weeks will allow remaining participants ample time to find a testing center with available seating, and will NOT be extending the deadline any further, so please take advantage of this opportunity!

VMware invites you to attend a series of focused webinars. Hosted by their expert engineers, these webinars provide an overview of how VMware virtualization can address the business and IT challenges that face every organization today.

VMware nodigt u graag uit voor één of meerdere van haar webinars om u te informeren wat virtualisatie voor uw bedrijf kan betekenen. Deze webinars worden gehost door VMware experts. Meldt u nu aan en laat u informeren hoe virtualisatie u kan helpen bij de hedendaagse bedrijfs- en IT-uitdagingen.

Rob Groenhuis	VMworld 2009 Update [Dutch]
Jeremy van Doorn & Jan-Willem Lammers	VMware vSphere: de volgende generatie van VMware Virtualisatie [Dutch]
Raymond van 't Hag	VMware View 4.0: The new evolution of Virtualised Desktops [Dutch]
Rob Groenhuis	VMware vCenter AppSpeed [Dutch]
Rob Groenhuis	VMware LabManager 4.0: Voordelen en Best Practices [Dutch]
Danny Claproth	VMware & Vizioncore: wat zijn de voordelen?
Willem van Engeland	Virtualiseren van XenApp Servers op VMware vSphere [Dutch]
Ton Hermes	View Proof of Concepts: Very easy! [Dutch]
Raymond van 't Hag	Upgrading to VMware vSphere 4.0 [Dutch]
Bob van der Werf	Security Deep Dive in VMware vSphere [Dutch
Rob Groenhuis	Overzicht van de vCenter Product Family [Dutch]
Bob van der Werf	Optimale bescherming met Site Recovery Manager 4.0 [Dutch]
Jan-Willem Lammers	Networking Deep Dive in VMware vSphere [Dutch]

Members of this group have gained the in-depth skills and industry-recognized certification on VMware technology. The VMware Certified Professional Program is designed for everyone who wants to demonstrate their expertise in virtual infrastructure and increase his potential for career advancement. If you are a VCP you can join this group.

Last Monday I did an Ace 2.6 Proof Of Concept at one of my clients. I didn’t pay much attention to the Pocket ACE feature but after digging in a bit deeper, I’ve discovered it’s really cool. One of the most exciting new features in ACE is the handy “Pocket ACE” feature, which gives you the ability to use your ACE virtual machines directly on portable media such as removable hard drives and USB thumb drives.

Using Pocket ACE is fast and simple, thanks to the helpful Pocket ACE Package wizard. Simply select the virtual machine template you want to use, enter a password to protect the virtual machine against unauthorized access, and click OK to deploy your new Pocket ACE package.You can learn more about using Pocket ACE with an online video tutorial.

December 31, 2009: This is the last day that VCP3s can become VCP4s by simply passing the VCP4 test. 

Remember that if you fail a VCP exam, you're required to wait 7 days before taking the test again. Therefore, it’s a good idea to take the test soon, in case you fail the first attempt.

January 1, 2010: On this date, anyone who wants to become a VCP4 must not only pass the VCP4 test, but must also take an authorized vSphere 4 class.

Most people will need to take “vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage”, or “vSphere 4: Fast Track”, or “vSphere 4: Troubleshooting”. VCP3s have a fourth class option : “vSphere 4: What’s New”.

January 1, 2010: VMware will begin offering the VCP4 test in Japanese.

March 31, 2010: VMware will discontinue offering the VCP3 test, and no new VCP3 certifications will be granted.

Jon C. Hall from VMware:

Some of you may have already seen this posted or blogged about, but to make it official  , VMware will be extending the availability of the VCP3 exam until March 31st, 2010. We have many customers still using the VI3 platform and as a result, we continue to offer classes. In light of this, we want to make the exam available a bit longer.

Please note that this does NOT change the deadline for the fast track path to obtain VCP4. If you are a VCP3 or are working on obtaining your VCP3 and want to avoid taking any additional classes to move to VCP4, be sure to obtain your VCP4 certification before 12/31!

Next week I’m having an appointment with a client who wants to implement VMware ACE 2.6 and VMware with Workstation 7.0. Since those two products are fairly new, there isn’t much training material available at this moment so I’ve compiled a VMware’s ACE 2.6 Management Server Quick Start Guide. The information in this guide is taken from VMware’s ACE Documentation website which can be found at: http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/ace_pubs.html

I’ve included some additional screenshots which were captured in my lab. The VMware’s ACE 2.6 Quick Start Guide can be downloaded here.

http://www.ntpro.nl/blog/uploads/VMware_Ace.pdf

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