- A VMware Administrator's Guide to Setting Up a DevOps Configuration Management Test Environment
- Apr 13, 2015
- Learn about the foundational tools that you will need to build your test environments. This chapter from DevOps for VMware Administrators covers environment provisioning with AutoLab and Vagrant, creating images with Packer, managing source code, and Git source code control.
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- Performing Basic Troubleshooting on ESXi Hosts, vSphere Virtual Networks, and vSphere Storage
- Aug 27, 2014
- In this chapter from VCP5-DCV Official Certification Guide (Covering the VCP550 Exam): VMware Certified Professional 5 - Data Center Virtualization, 2nd Edition, Bill Ferguson discusses performing basic troubleshooting on your ESXi hosts, virtual networks, and storage.
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- Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Architecting for Performance: Storage
- Aug 14, 2014
- This chapter from Virtualizing SQL Server with VMware: Doing IT Right first covers the key aspects of storage architecture relevant to both physical and virtual environments as well as the differences you need to understand when architecting storage, specifically for virtualized SQL Server Databases.
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- Administrator's Guide to VMware Virtual SAN: Introduction to VSAN
- Aug 11, 2014
- This chapter introduces you to the world of the software-defined datacenter, but with a focus on the storage aspect.
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- VCAP5-DCA Official Cert Guide: Network Administration
- Jul 16, 2014
- This chapter provides the knowledge and skills needed to successfully configure and administer an enterprise network that includes virtual networks built using vSphere.
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- VMware Horizon Suite: How View, Mirage, and Workspace Form the New End-User Model
- Jul 8, 2014
- This chapter introduces the core pieces of the VMware Horizon Suite, View, Mirage, and Workspace, while additionally covering some high-level predeployment considerations and the base-level components of each solution.
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- Ranking Certifications (2014 Edition)
- May 12, 2014
- Employers look for and seek out certified IT professionals, but generally prefer candidates who possess both college degrees and specific certification credentials. Aspiring or active IT professionals can benefit from an informed evaluation of certifications in terms of the time commitment, cost, and other factors involved in earning such a credential vis-a-vis the ultimate financial or career advancement that such an investment can return. In this article, Ed Tittel looks at one method for rating and ranking IT certifications.
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- Exam profile: VMware Certified Associate – Cloud Exam VCAC510
- Nov 25, 2013
- This article profiles VMware's VCA-Cloud Certification. This certification profile describes question forms, trouble spots, hints for exam preparation, and recommendations for additional study resources. Find out what you can expect for this certification and how to best prepare for it.
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- VCP-Cloud Official Cert Guide: Allocating and Managing vCloud Resources
- Nov 4, 2013
- To help you prepare for the VCP5-Cloud Exam, this chapter covers not only how to configure new enduser resource allocation models, but also their proper usage. It explores the relationship between allocation models and vCenter Server configuration changes.
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- My VCAP-DCD Experience
- Oct 31, 2013
- VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) and consultant Rebecca Fitzhugh details her experience and takeaways after sitting for VMware’s VCAP-DCD exam.
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- What You Should Know about VMware's New VCA Certifications
- Oct 30, 2013
- VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) Rebecca Fitzhugh provides some relevant and practical facts about the new VCA certifications from VMware.
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- Exam Profile: VMware Certified Associate - Data Center Virtualization Exam VCAD510
- Oct 28, 2013
- This article profiles VMware's VCA-DVC Certification. This certification profile describes question forms, trouble spots, hints for exam preparation, and recommendations for additional study resources. Find out what you can expect for this certification and how to best prepare for it.
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- Why I am Pursuing the VCDX
- Oct 25, 2013
- Rebecca Fitzhugh, VMware Certified Instructor (VCI) and consultant, explains her personal and professional motivations to pursue the VMware's VCDX certification.
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- VCP5-DT Official Cert Guide: Optimizing the Operating System
- Aug 21, 2013
- Optimizing storage resources when virtualizing a desktop is a critical step in ensuring proper performance. This chapter explains several optimization methods covered on the VMware VCP5-DT exam.
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- VCAP5-DCD Official Cert Guide: Introduction to Technical Design
- Aug 20, 2013
- To help you prepare for the VCAP5-DCD exam, this section explains what a technical design is and why it is important to the end solution, what happens at each stage of the technical design process, and what should be produced as part of a technical design.
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- Exam Profile: VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Cloud Infrastructure Administration Exam VCAP-CIA
- Jul 29, 2013
- This article profiles VMware's VCAP-CIA Certification. Find out what you can expect for this certification and how to best prepare for it.
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- Preparing for the VCDX Panel Defense: The Design
- May 31, 2013
- This chapter illustrates the steps to developing an architectural design document submission to help prepare for your VCDX panel defense.
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- Certification Profile: VMware Certified Design Expert for Datacenter Virtualization (VCDX-DCV)
- May 21, 2013
- This article profiles VMware's VCDX-DCV Certification. Find out what you can expect for this certification and how to best prepare for it.
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- Certification Profile: VMware Certified Design Expert for Cloud (VCDX-Cloud)
- May 15, 2013
- This article profiles VMware's VCDX-Cloud Certification. Find out what you can expect for this certification and how to best prepare for it.
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- Exam Profile: VMware Certified Professional - Cloud, VCPC510
- May 8, 2013
- This article profiles the VMware Certified Professional – Cloud Exam. Find out what you can expect to see on the exam and how you can better prepare for it.
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