Category Archives: General

Following the interest at my Certification Quickstart sessions at vForum Sydney I am doing a series of blog posts about studying for the VCP5 exam.  One of the big things I believe you need to become a VCP (and good … Continue reading →

Today I sat and passed the VCP5 exam.  This is the fourth version of VCP I’ve taken in the five years since I started teaching VMware courses and the fifth VMware certification I’ve sat this year.  Consequently I didn’t do … Continue reading →

After a long pause between vBeers we will return for another get together. A great chance to catch up with other Virtualisation geeks, maybe even make some new friends.  Location: Bluestone Room Address: 9 – 11 Durham Lane , Central … Continue reading →

The simplest home lab to study for VCP5 certification is a single PC with at least 8GB of RAM and running VMware Workstation, Fusion or Player.  The benefit here is that you may already have all the hardware you need … Continue reading →

This is the first in a series of articles about building your own lab to study for the VCP510 exam or the VCAP-DCA exam.  I will look at a few options for building a home lab but first we need … Continue reading →

At the start of September I began an experiment to track the disk growth of View Composer Desktop that was not recomposed or refreshed for a while. The initial article last month covered the first month of growth and wasn’t … Continue reading →

At vForum Sydney 2011 I presented three Certification Quick Start sessions on preparing for the VCP510 exam.  A number of session attendees asked whether the slides would be available for download, I haven’t been able to get an answer to … Continue reading →

Today is the first time since vForum Sydney I’ve sat down at my desk and stopped to think about the event.  It was a huge event, six thousand attendees across two days.  That’s nearly as large as VMworld Europe! I … Continue reading →

The usual crew will be along to talk about vForum Sydney and VMworld Europe. Hopefully we’ll have a special guest who can talk about the management products that were announced last week. All the details are on the podcast blog … Continue reading →

vForum 2011 Sydney is over, the dust is settling.  This year, like last year, one of the last sessions at the show was the End User Computing Experts Exchange, a panel discussion around issues in EUC.  David Wakemen again recorded … Continue reading →