Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware Education has decided to make enhancements to the Desktop Virtualization Certification Program. Effective immediately, VMware Certified Associate 4 – Desktop (VCA4-DT) certification is not a pre-requisite for the VMware Certified Professional 4 – Desktop (VCP4-DT) exam. For the new path see the official VCP-DT page. All other requirements for the Desktop Certification Program remain the same: for the VCAP-DT certification (still no news about it and when the beta will start) require the VCP-DT (and also the VCP certification, but this was already required for the VCP-DT). Why of this change? Maybe because there […]
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Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a list of all objectives see the VCP5 page. Objective 4.4 – Administer Virtual Machines and vApps See also: VCP 5 Objective 4.4 – Administer Virtual Machines and vApps. Identify files used by virtual machines (same as vSphere 4.x) See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide (page 9). Identify locations for virtual machine configuration files and virtual disks (same as vSphere 4.x) By default all related VM’s files are in a folder (and the name of this folder is usually the initial VM name). But vmdk can simple created or relocated (with a Storage Migration) […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a list of all objectives see the VCP5 page. Objective 4.3 – Manage Virtual Machine Clones and Templates See also: Objective 4.3 – Manage Virtual Machine Clones and Templates. Identify the vCenter Server managed ESXi hosts and Virtual Machine maximums (new in vSphere 5) See also: Configuration Maximums for VMware vSphere 5.0. Main differences from vSphere 4.1: Virtual Machine Maximums: 32 vCPU (instead of 8 ) and 1 TB vRAM (instead of 255 GB) ESXi Host Maximums: 512 VM per host (instead of 320), 2048 vCPU per host (instead of 512), 2 TB RAM […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteVMware are announcing this week that there is now a new option (time limited) available for a VCP3 holder to update their certification to VCP5: until the end of Feb, 2012 it’s possible attend at the vSphere 5: What’s New and then simple pass the VCP5 exam. For more info see the VCP5 official page.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a list of all objectives see the VCP5 page. Objective 4.2 – Create and Deploy vApps See also this similar post: Objective 4.2 – Create and Deploy vApps. Identify vApp settings (same as vSphere 4.x) See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide (page 179 and 183). Common settings are: vApp Resources for CPU and memory capacity (Share, Reservation, Reservation type, Limit). vApp Startup and Shutdown Options for the order of the VMs inside the vApp. vApp Properties (in the Advanced Property Configuration) IP Allocation Policy (see later) Create/Clone/Export a vApp (same as vSphere 4.x) […]
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor a list of all objectives see the VCP5 page. Objective 4.1 – Create and Deploy Virtual Machines See also this similar post: Objective 4.1 – Create and Deploy Virtual Machines. Identify capabilities of virtual machine hardware versions (new in vSphere 5) See the vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide (page 81) and Virtual Machine Hardware Version 8 Identify VMware Tools device drivers (similar as vSphere 4.x) See VMware KB: Overview of VMware Tools Identify methods to access and use a virtual machine console (same as vSphere 4.x) As usual there is the console in the vSphere […]
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently, has been released the VCP5 blueprint 1.1 (although in the download is number 1.15?) that cover the official exam (note that the v1.4 was related to the beta exam). The new blueprint does not include changes on the objectives, just more tools, link to to the documents and some changes in the exam description (the official exam has 85 questions in 90 minutes). Note that there are also new version of the VCA4-DT (v1.3) and VCP4-DT (v1.2) blueprints.
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