Desktop Virtualization Certifications from VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix. OMG-Study-Guide.pdf. At last its done - My VCP 5 Study Guide (and a sexy pdf) After 6 months of spending most of my spare time flipping through pages of VMware documentation, sorting through different community blog posts and pages, and deep diving into whitepapers I have finally completed my dissection of each individual learning point in each indiviidual objective of each individual section of the VCP 5 blueprint.
Wow that's a mouthful! Honestly, I didn't ever think I was going to get through it all and I probably wouldn't have if it wasn't for the greatness of the community surrounding VMware and virtualization. Without your feedback and comments I probably would have quit long ago and went back to my chicken scratch notebook style of studying. So hats off to the community and the bloggers that put out and share all of their information. I'm beginning to realize just how much dedication and effort it takes to keep a consistent blog with relevant information to readers. Thanks to everyone for their help and here's hoping for a pass for come Feb 28th. Why AutoLab makes building your home lab simple. *Some of you may have seen a couple of twitter posts of mine regarding AutoLab lately, that’s because I am in love with this awesome automation tool that simplifies setting up a home lab.Whether it is for study, training, testing, or whatever you use your vSphere lab for, AutoLab is going to be something you will want, especially if you are rebuilding your lab over and over again.
AutoLab was created by the extremely talented Alastair Cooke (@DemitasseNZ) with the help of many, including Nick Marshall (@nickmarshall9), Grant Orchard (@grantorchard), Ariel Antigua (@aantigua), Damian Karlson (@sixfootdad), James Bowling (@vSential) and the vBrownBag crew. First of all, head over to LabGuides website where you can download AutoLab 1.5 (vSphere 5.5 or 1.1a – vSphere 5.1). There are a few versions of each version. Once the ZIP is downloaded, you can extract it to a location that has 100Gb spare space or more. Keep in mind that the VMDks are thin provisioned and are going to grow.
Thank you. VMUG : VMware User Group. Catalogs - VMware Learning Platform. VMware VCP510 Practice Lab. VMware > VCP > Practice Lab for VMware VCP510 Practice Lab for VMware VCP510 The Practice Lab for VMware VCP510 provides access* to real computer equipment that is networked together and conveniently accessible over the internet.
Practice Labs include multiple pieces of equipment that you can configure. This lab includes instructions that will guide you as you learn the concepts and technologies covered on the VMware VCP510 certification exam. The VCP510 Practice Lab will provide you with the necessary platform to gain hands on skills in VSphere 5. These tasks will help you understand the objectives and competencies required by the VCP510 certification exam. *A Practice Lab purchase includes access for one (1) year from activation.
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Checking out different builds from Chris Wahls Lab Resource section, Chris has a great compilation of posts to get you started from various community members. Your number one question should be what is the need for my lab? What am I going to need for my lab today? But what about 3 months down the road? 6mths? This is the very question that has me stumbling personally. In my current home I am fortunate to have the space to have a 3/4 tall rack which I can put equipment in and I have a separate office which closes off from the house. Lab Resources - Wahl Network. Create your VMware test lab using AutoLab. AutoLab is a way to bring up a VMware environment through scripted installs to create test/lab environments.
Read why Lauren Malhoit calls this tool awesome. It's my opinion that every person who works with VMware should have a test lab. Although it would be ideal to have the same hardware as your production lab and completely duplicate the setup, that's often not feasible. There are also things that come along with a test lab that make them annoying, for lack of a better word. Either you messed something up during testing and need to rebuild, or you'd like to test a different setup, which means you need to start completely over.
vExpert Alastair Cooke is the man behind this solution, with some help from Damian Karlson and Veeam, a virtual backup and recovery company. A brief synopsis of the setup Click the image to enlarge it. To be clear, AutoLab doesn't necessarily take less time to build a test lab, but it takes a lot less effort and babysitting. The Many Uses of VMware's Hand On Lab Infrastructure. How To Guy The Many Uses of VMware's Hand On Lab Infrastructure It'd be nice to see the company use it for VCP self-paced training next.
Every year at VMworld, VMware's hands-on lab racks up mind-blowing usage statistics. VMware VCP510 Practice Lab. Free Online VMware Lab – VMware Hands-on Labs (HOL) This post is for the VMware Administrators who are really interested to learn new features of VMware virtualization products but they are limited by the environment or cost to setup lab environment to test and explore all the advanced features of the VMware virtualization products.
Now you cannot tell the exceptions that you don’t have lab to learn new things because VMware announced “ VMware HOL Online – Public Beta Registration is open Now”. You can register for the VMware Hands-on Lab and access the labs on latest VMware Products and Solutions – Lab content created by VMware and Community product specialist. To access the HOL Labs you have to register yourself to the interested list. To register yourself to the interested list, follow the below procedure 1. 2. 3. 4. VCP-5. VirtualLanger VMware vSphere VCP 5 Welcome to my VCP 5 study guide page.
Listed below is a breakdown of what is included in the VCP 5 Exam Blueprint (currently version 1.4) and study notes for the sections. Josh Coen (blog/twitter) and myself are working together to put this guide together. Wahl Network - Technical Solutions for Technical People. VMware VCA – Hit or Miss? 9/16/13 Update – VMware is now offering these exams for *free* using the discount code VCA501 until September 30th.
On August 26th, VMware announced their new Associate level certifications. These consist of: VMware Certified Associate – Data Center VirtualizationVMware Certified Associate – CloudVMware Certified Associate – Workforce MobilityVMware Certified Associate – Network Virtualization* To date, VMware’s primary certification has been the VMware Certified Professional – or VCP. A longstanding contention with the VCP has been the requirement to attend an approved and official VMware training course. There are several options available to meet the course requirement: The least expensive of these courses is $3845 USD. These new VCA certifications on the other hand do not have any required class. Heck, why not? My studies are primarily focused on networking, as are the contents of this blog, however I do have some interest and experience with virtualization. Disappointed. VMware Training and Certification. CCC&TI. CCC&TI. CCC&TI’s VMware IT Academy is excited to announce that we are one of the first VMware Academies to offer training with VMware’s newest version vSphere 5.5.
This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware® vSphere®, which consists of VMware ESXi™ and VMware® vCenter Server™. This course is based on versions of ESXi 5.5 and vCenter Server 5.5. Completion of this course satisfies the prerequisite for taking the VMware® Certified Professional 5 exam. This hands-on training course explores installation, configuration, and management of VMware® vSphere®, which consists of VMware ESXi™ and VMware® vCenter Server™. This course is based on versions of ESXi 5.5 and vCenter Server 5.5. Students who complete this course can enroll in several more advanced vSphere courses. Note: Beginning in 2015, the Official VMware ebook is included with your registration fee.