Posts from ‘June, 2008’

I passed the VCP310 exam this morning!!
It has been over 2 years since I first passed the VCP exam (on 2.5) so it was finally time to get updated to VI3.5. I contribute all my success to the RTFM method. Get the VCP blueprint, read the manuals, and play with the [...]

Just had a question posed to me by an product manager at a start-up company looking for some additional perspective on the ESX server hardware and specifically how many PCIe slots we’re using in our server builds. If anyone else would like to post their experiences, then please feel free to do so.
The question [...]

I’m on a crash course to bone up for the VCP for 3.5 on Monday. I found that there is a VCP discussion forum on the VMWare Communities.
I stumbled upon some example test questions from Rob Schmidt as well. Downloading them now to study up.
My method to prepare for the exam is rock [...]

I gave a presentation at last Wednesday’s VUG meeting on running VMware Infrastructure 3.5 with NFS as the shared storage. Adam Trujillo, site editor for SearchVmware.com, picked up on it and interviewed me to do a story. I thought Adam did a fine job considering he’s a non-technical journalist. You can enjoy the story [...]

Why aren’t you on board with VMware server virtualization yet? Why do I have to explain the benefits of having one common virtual hardware for your entire enterprise? Or explain, again, that your mission critical core app that is running 5% CPU now, will perform just fine or better on ESX server? [...]