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New VCP-Cloud Certification Exam (VCPC550) available

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After a VCP550 announced last month (read my article – New VCP Exam VCP550 based on vSphere 5.5 is available) covering datacenter virtualization, there is now also new VCP-Cloud certification exam based on vCloud Director 5.5 and VCAC 5.2 is available. With codename VCPC550.  You need to attend the vCloud Director: Install, Configure, Manage [V5.5] OR VMware vCloud Automation […]

VCAP-DCA status: passed!

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This came as a very good news for me this morning as I just received a good news from VMware Certification about my VCAP5-DCA exam score report! Passed. This completes my second VCAP exam – VCAP5-DCD which I passed during my Lisboa’s stay in November last year. This was my second attempt for the VCAP5-DCA exam […]

VMware vExpert Program now with quarterly nominations

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vExpert program nominations is here again. This year change is that new vExperts can get nominated through the year and every quarter the application will be re-examined to perhaps let you in. The are now quarterly nominations into the 2014 vExpert program. We will leave the application open year round and at the end of […]

Automatic Workload Rightsizing and optimization – free PDF

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To determine which VMs are over provisioned on larger environments is time consuming. Such a VMs do have negative impact on overall performance of virtual infrastructure because they literally “eat” valuable resources, which could have been used better way otherwise. What I mean that your virtual infrastructure to perform optimal way, VMs should be always […]

Discover unRAID OS – an unique embedded Network Attached Storage (NAS) server operating system

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I stumbled through this by surfing the web. unRAID is a NAS Operating System which allows storing digital files, videos etc… but with some huge difference at the RAID level as it allows mixing disks of different capacity. Similarly as Drobo does. unRAID embedded Network Attached Storage (NAS) server runs out of USB stick to provide […]

VSAN Observer – upcoming tool for monitoring VSAN performance

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VMware VSAN which has been introduced during VMworld 2013 in SF allows to use local disks together with local SSDs (for acceleration) to create a pool of storage visible to all hosts in the cluster as a shared datastore. The product is not available yet. Here are some news about some cool management tools are showing […]

VMware Certified Associate – (VCA) Additional VMware Certification Announced without mandatory training

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VMware has announced new certification to the already crowded number of certifications. There is four VMware Certified Associate (VCE) certification. And with good news is that there is no obligatory training in order to pass those certifications and get the VCE certification! Which certifications are available? VMware Certified Associate – Cloud (VCA-Cloud) VMware Certified Associate – Data […]

PCIe XP941 Samsung SSD – 1.4GB/second.

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The limit of 6Gb/s of the SATA III is just surpassed with the latest technology from Samsung. The code release is XP941 and it’s a PCIe flash card which delivers impressive 1.4GB/second sequential read speed, and most importantly, it’s not a sample. The mass production has already started and it seems that it’s already shipped with the […]

New training – EMC Storage Essentials. Haven’t tried TrainSignal yet?

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TrainSignal has released EMC Storage Essentials, which is new training covering EMC’s VNX technology. TrainSignal with their latest offering allows to “consume” training courses, as a training-on-demand. It means that you no longer buy an individual courses, but using the whole TrainSignal’s online library with massive amount of training courses covering networking, virtualization, compute, or office […]