Ubuntu 8.10 has been released today. Listed are a few of the important updates to Ubuntu 8.10
If you have not had the pleasure of using Ubuntu you should really check it out. Currently most of the sites are to busy to download 8.10, but hopefully the demand will die down soon.
Back in June 2008 I passed the VCP 301 Exam. I thought it would be nice to share some of the resources I used to pass the VCP exam. Below is a list of resources that were used when studying for the exam.
The VMware Product guides are where you will find the bulk of the information you will need to study. There are a lot of guides, but you really need to study all of them. The courseware material from the Authorized VMware course will also help a lot, but just isn’t as in-depth as the product documentation. The mock exam will give you a good feel for the type of questions that will be presented to you on the real exam. Then the study guides from other users I found will help you create your own study guide to prepare you for the exam.
Overall the VCP exam isn’t really difficult, but you will need to know a lot of in-depth information. You will also need hands-on experience with the products there is NO substitute for this. Also you will need to invest a good amount of time into studying.
I wish anyone taking this test good luck and hope you find the experience valuable. If there are any questions you have please feel free to leave comments.
For those of you wondering when the VMwolrd session and lab content will be available. The VMworld Website states the VMworld 2008 Session and Lab content will be available Friday 10/3.
Here is a great tutorial on how to speed up Ubuntu Linux. Most options would also work with any Debian based distro. Check it out here.
Just upgraded VMware Workstation on my Vista Machine and the Unity feature is great. I also have upgraded Fusion which also includes the Unity feature and greatly improves Fusion on the Mac. Most of my testing has been with Fusion and it’s just a fabulous experience on the Mac. I feel that VMware has made some exceptional upgrades to Fusion which now out performs Parallels. It is great to see VMware putting this kind of work into their Fusion product. I will soon post my overall experience with VMware Fusion.
Tech Target will hold there annual Data Center Decisions Conference from Oct 23rd - Oct 25th in Chicago. This is a free conference and usually is valuable that includes some great speakers. This years Virtualization track will include the following presentations.
Getting Started: Planning and Implementing a Virtualization Project
Presented by George Crump, President and Founder, Storage SwitzerlandWill Hyper-V change the Virtualization Game?
Presented by Nelson Ruest, Senior Enterprise IT ArchitectPerformance Tuning, Management and Optimization in a Virtual Infrastructure
Presented by David Davis, Director of Infrastructure, TrainSignal.comVirtual Infrastructure High Availability: Upgrades and Best Practices
Presented by David Davis, Director of Infrastructure, TrainSignal.comProduction-level Virtual Environments: Architecture, Application and Hardware Considerations
Presented by Andrew Kutz, Senior Systems Specialist, University of Texas at Austin
Also included are the following tracks:
You can find more information on the Conference here.
There is a lot of new VMware Fusion video tutorials posted on the VMware E-Learning Channel on YouTube. For some this is a great way to learn about the product. So check them out here.
Symantec has released Backup Exec 12.5 with new VMware and Hyper-V agents. Here is the new features for the agents from Symantec.
Comprehensive Data Protection for VMware Infrastructures and Microsoft Virtual Servers
Expanded virtual server data protection with two new virtual Agents
Backup Exec Agent for VMware Virtual Infrastructures and Backup Exec Agent for Microsoft Virtual Servers (including Hyper-V)
Quickly restore virtual server files and folders from a single pass backup – save time and storage costs by eliminating a redundant file level backup
Easily backup an unlimited number of virtual guest machines to disk or tape for added flexibility and savings
Fast, efficient data protection for physical and virtual server environments from a single console
This is great news for those of us that use Backup Exec.
Today I had VM that was hung and any command ran on the VM did nothing. So after further investigation there was a process still running under the VM. So performing the following command resolved the issue.
You should now be able to successfully power on the VM.
There were a lot of post last week during VMworld, so many I couldn’t keep up with the reading. So I just wanted to point out some of the blog post that had some great content.
So there’s the list, but trust me there was also plenty of other great post so check them out on Planet V12n
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