VCAP5-DCD Workshop

One of the presentations I do a bit is about preparing for the VCAP certifications, I’ve done this at vForum Sydney and at the Sydney and Melbourne VMUGs and it always seems to be valuable to people. This week I’m doing the same material online for an international audience, which is interesting in itself. Below is a selection of links to VCAP5-DCD study resources that I used during the presentation.

• First of all the certification page www.vmware.com/certification
• The “Visio like” diagramming tool demo
• The vBrownBag home page www.professionalvmware.com/brownbags/
• Greg Robertson’s VCAP resource page, DCD lower on the page www.thesaffageek.co.uk/vsphere-5-study-resources/vcap5-dca-dcd/
• VirtuallyHyper VCAP5-DCD resource page www.virtuallyhyper.com/2012/08/vcap5-dcd/
• vBrownBag VCAP5-DCD Playlist on YouTube
• vBrownBag VCAP5-DCD Slide Rocket Decks
  • Session 1 – Business requirements
  • Session 2 – Storage design, no slide deck
  • Session 3 – Network Design
  • Session 4 – Availability
  • Session 5 – Security, Ewan’s design Doc
  • Session 6 – Network Design continued
  • Session 7 – Exam Registration
  • Session 8 – Host Design
  • Session 9 – Cluster Design
  • Session 10 – Implementation Planning
  • Session 11 – Management Design
  • Session 12 – VM Design, no slide deck
  • Session 13 – Performance Design
  • Session 14 – Wrap up

We didn’t look there during the workshop, but there are heaps of videos at vmwarelearning.com

There are a heap of other places with VCAP5-DCD resources, Google is your friend.

One link I forgot was to Josh Odgers site where he is documenting architectural decisions in vSphere design.

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