VCAP Design Boot Camp

Hello,

Recently John Arrasjid @VCDX001 Tweeted about doing a VCAP Design Boot camp and invited people from the Community who possess VCAP certification (in any order) to contribute to the idea.

I am one of them who was lucky to have the spot and able to add inputs and provide Feedback.
The great thing about this Boot Camp is that its covering all the VCAP level Design certification tracks viz in View (EUC), Datacenter (DCV) and vCloud  (Cloud) areas. And not only that it has the resources available through VMware Education as well as from any additional External resources which helps a candidate achieving the certification depending on his/her expertise.

John has done a fantastic work after moving in to VMware Education Group and I am sure this will help people plan their paths and achieve the same with proper resources on hand. A big Congrats and Thanks to others who ever contributed to this idea and make it happen a Great Help for the VMware community.


This boot camp involves the Process, Exam Formats, Simulation Tool for each track so that candidate can be made aware of the what the Exam will look like and what kind of Questions he/she will get and by having the proper balance between the nature of the questions, resources etc. it will help one to do proper planning to go for this Cert and achieve them.


More details about the Barcelona Boot Camp you can find on the community page.

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/458743

The Boot Camp will be held on October 13th 2013 at 9.30 A.M. and will be Led  by John Arrasjid, Jon Hall and Linus Bourque. All from VMware.

Attendance will be First come First Serve basis so make sure you register for it on time. One needs to send the information to mbrunstad@vmware.com before Oct 10th 2013.

Hope you find the information from this VCAP Design Boot Camp useful and spread the word.

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Download vSphere 5.5 with other Suites

vSphere 5.5. downloads are available from today so after the long wait since the Announcement was made at VMworld


 ESXi / vCenter Server

• ESXi 5.5
• vCenter Server 5.5
  
• vSphere App HA 1.0
  
• vCenter Certificate Automation Tool 5.5

Networking 

• VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.5.0

• Cisco Nexus 1000v for 5.5
  Note: Please refer the compatibility guide on Cisco's for your vCenter if running SRM and other on Nexus 1000v
     

vCOPS

• VMware vCenter Operations Manager Standard 5.7.2

SRM, VDP & VR

• VMware vCenter Operations Manager Standard 5.7.2
  
• vSphere Data Protection 5.5.1
  
• vSphere Replication 5.5

CLI

• vSphere CLI 5.5
  
• vSphere PowerCLI 5.5
  
• vSphere Management Assistant 5.5
  

vCO

• vCenter Orchestrator Appliance 5.5
  

 vCloud

• VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.2.0
  
• VMware vCloud Director 5.5.0

Please choke the Internet by downloading the bits :-) and Happy upgrading your production systems and also your favorite Home Labs.

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VCDX Sponsorship - A cool idea !!

Hi VCDX Aspirants,

If you are not aware about this but recently Nutanix has offered Sponsorship to anyone who is going for VCDX or in process of attaining VCDX.

The exact criteria is described here:

"We are looking for someone who has successfully completed all of the prerequisite exam requirements for VCDX and is ready to submit a Nutanix-based design for their VCDX defense. The lucky chosen candidate will receive as much preparation support as needed and have all submission fees paid for by Nutanix. Let us help you achieve your ultimate goal of becoming a member of the exclusive VCDX community."

And the benefits are:

The chosen candidate will receive:
• A VCDX bootcamp to prepare the candidate for the VCDX defense
• The VCDX submission fees paid for by Nutanix
• Travel and lodging for the VCDX defense


Now looking at this trend, wondering tomorrow or in near future all the big players e.g. EMC, NetApp, IBM, HP etc. will come up with an offering like this, which would give a candidate a chance/motivation to include the components in their design and get benefits of such offerings.

Now this is just my assumption here but it is something which can be done and the company will get more visibility in the community by promoting the VCDX process as a whole which is Elite and Unique in itself.

People are becoming more innovative day by day so not sure what kind of other offers they may started getting from such organizations or even from their employer, which eventually boost the morale of a person to go for such valuable status being a "VCDX".

Good Luck to those who entered in this offer from Nutanix and love to see more of such offers from others in the community.

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Cheers !! 

VMUG Voice

I am a VMUG member but not yet actively engaged in all the activities offered by the VMUG groups.

But while working with cloud cred on task I had to complete is to Blog about VMUG Voice.

What is VMUG Voice??

As per the site www.vmug.com:

"VMUG Voice is the monthly electronic newsletter distributed exclusively to VMUG members. Launched in June 2010, the newsletter is a premier educational resource for VMware users worldwide. Through VMUG Voice, VMware users can:  

• Read the latest about VMware products and enhancements
• Learn through white papers and case studies of successful VMware applications
• Take advantage of VMware tips shared by other professionals, including expert bloggers
• Discover how affiliated vendors can help maximize their productivity and success
• Learn about upcoming VMware and VMUG events
• Find out how VMUG chapters are educating their members

so basically you have to keep trying and contribute as much as you can to the VMUG as a member and depending on the contribution you can be on the VMUG Voice Featured Member one day.

Keep sharing and contributing towards VMUGs !!

Share and Care !!

Thanks to all.

Upgrade Videos of vSphere, vCloud, vCenter, VDS, vShield

Hi,


If you want to go through the upgrade process of various VMware products, there are documentation available for them but one of VMware VCDXs, Matthew Meyer @mattdmeyer has developed a whole list of videos which covers the ugprade process and setup of various products which are as follows.


VMware vCloud Director 1.5 to 5.1 Upgrade

http://youtu.be/J6vfnvOS_D8



VMware vShield Manager 1.5 to 5.1 Upgrade

http://youtu.be/qrx8tQxNPIo



VMware vCenter Single Sign-On Installation
http://youtu.be/c1QWNbea3lo



VMware vCenter Server 5.0 to 5.1 Upgrade

http://youtu.be/0ypcu5JYWyo



VMware ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 Upgrade

http://youtu.be/Kvozx6v4m50



vCloud Director 1.5 to 5.1 Agent Upgrade

http://youtu.be/D9CSNOhqfAE



VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (vDS) 5.0 to 5.1 Upgrade

http://youtu.be/MVDAwbVZd0I




VMware VXLAN Installation for vCloud Director 5.1

http://youtu.be/LK7N4o8N7ts



This will give you an idea on exactly what to do while upgrading or installing the related products.

Sharing is caring so RT and spread the word.

Thanks !!

Passed VCP-Cloud - Links and Resources

I attempted the BETA Exam and missed it by few. Saw all the Tweets when the BETA results was announced as people were passing. I had nothing but to take that as an opportunity to prepare again and Never give up.

For last week or so I have been studying the vCloud, vShield, vCloud Connector and Chargeback.

Today I went to one of the centers to give the VCP-IaaS Exam and after finishing the survey my heart beats are started to becoming little faster. With all the study resources I have gone through which were immensely  helped me to understand the concepts of vClound and other components tied up with it.

Chargeback is definitely a BEAST which will play a crucial role in organizations when it comes to cost and resource allocation. So much new to learn about it and I can see the future of Chargeback is very bright along with the vCloud implementations where the strength of the same can be utilized in both Public and Private Clouds. Now a days everything e.g. Storage, Networking becoming cheaper in the cost per GB per / MB. But still to see if your underlying hardware resources are fully optimized or not and giving you the best ROI with reasonable CAPEX/OPEX involved, it will be a priority subject for any organization which are in the business of using IT infrastructure.

I would probably posts about Chargeback in near future as it keeps attracting me by its features and offerings.

Finishing the 85 questions I got only 90 minutes but was able to finish it within lot of time to review the questions. As I pressed End Exam and I could not see the "Congratulations" word right away but saw your score which was "426", which means I passed. :-). I was excited while attempting the questions so not even bothered to review all the questions but just went back reviews 4-5 flagged about which I was double minded. Now the journey is just started in the vCloud track as VCP-Cloud is the first stepping stone while going for VCAP-CID (BEAT recently finished) and VCAP-CIA (not released yet).

Now lets discuss the resources I have used to prepare for this exam.

1) First of all the official documentation are the highest priority who ever is preparing for the examination. Majority of them are listed here by @davidmdavis.

2) I went through all the videos posted on mylearn.vmware.com for vCloud Training which I blogged about earlier. 

3) vCloud Deploy and Manage Course - offered by VMware Education.

4) VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals - offered by VMware Education.


5) Before going for the exam David Davis also helped me in last few days to review the recently launched training from TrainSignal "VMware vCloud Director Organizations" by @jakerobinson which I highly recommend to anyone who wants learn about vCloud Director and preparing for this certification. Its kind of paced training so the basic requirements includes the knowledge of related components to understand the subject better. there is vCloud Director Essentials Training is also available which will give you the knowledge about vCloud Director setup and other features offered by the same.

6) I'm previous post I have listed some links where similar resources are blogged about community members. but recently I referred the blog from Larus Hjartarson (@lhjartarson). He blogged about VCP-IaaS study notes. 

7) VCAT 2.0/ 3.0 documents

8)  Home LAB :-)

Cheers and Good Luck to all.

VCP-IaaS Objective 3.2 Configure and Generate vCenter Chargeback Reports

In preparation for the VCP-IaaS Exam majority of the blueprint items are covered by @lhjartarson on his blog, but few objectives are probably in progress or never finished so to help the readers and the VMware community I am putting down here "Objective 3.32 Configure and Generate vCenter Chargeback Reports" from the blueprint of VCPVCD510 Exam Blueprint Version 1.2 (Updated 26 July 2011).

Objective 3.2 – Configure and Generate vCenter Chargeback Reports

Knowledge

• Identify vCenter Chargeback report types
• Identify components of the reporting dashboard
• Given a reporting requirement, determine what report type should be run
• Schedule reports
• Manage archived reports
• Generate custom reports

There are four types of reports one can generate in Chargeback Manager 

vCenter Chargeback Manager enables you to generate following reports for a chargeback hierarchy and for entities in the hierarchy.

1 Cost Reports - A cost report provides the cost and utilization information for each computing resource for the hierarchy or entity on which the report is generated based on the cost configured in the hierarchy and the cost model selected during report generation.

2 Usage Reports - A usage report is similar to a cost report except that it provides only the computing resource utilization data. This report type is useful when you only want to analyze the resource utilization for various entities in a hierarchy.

3 Cost Comparison Reports - A cost comparison report enables you to compare the costs for each resource and entity based on two different cost models.

4 Showback Reports - A showback report lets you analyse how the costs are distributed among the entities based on a specified distribution policy. This report type is useful when you know the total cost and want to analyze how this cost is distributed among the entities by selecting different distribution policies.

Report Dashboard

vCenter Chargeback Manager provides a report dashboard that displays various graphs providing information about the resource cost and usage for a selected hierarchy or entity for the last 30 days excluding the current date.

The report dashboard displays three charts, Cost per Resource, Cost per child Entity, and Cost per Day, for

the selected hierarchy or entity. The dashboard also provides an option to view the following Top N reports:

1 Top N most expensive VMs

2 Top N least expensive VMs

3 Top N CPU consuming VMs

4 Top N Memory consuming VMs

Here, N can take the values 10, 20, and 50.

For a hierarchy that includes a vCenter Server that is integrated with VMware vCenter Operations, the Dashboard provides the following details:

• The Cost per Resource bar chart in the Cost projection tab shows cost for each resource, which is color coded, for the past 30 days and projected data for next three months in sets of 30 days each.
• The Cost per Day graph in the Cost projection tab charts the variance in the total cost for the entity for the past 30 days and projected data for next three months.
• The Cost Optimization tab lists the following optimization opportunities: Oversized Virtual Machines, Undersized Virtual Machines, Idle Virtual Machines, and Powered Off Virtual Machines.
• For each optimization opportunity, the corresponding virtual machines along with the configured and recommended resource-cost details are listed.

NOTE

• The graphs and optimization reports are generated only if the vCenter Server user, which was used for adding the vCenter Server to vCenter Chargeback Manager, has either the Global.vCenter Operations User privilege or the Global.vCenter Operations Admin privilege assigned on the root folder.
• Cost projection reports are enabled only with pure usage-based cost model, else graphs based on only past 30 days data are displayed. If the hierarchy is less than 30 days old and is not back-dated, then the graph based on the available data is displayed.

Scheduling reports

When creating a report, you can choose to schedule the report generation from the Create Report screen. You can schedule cost reports, cost comparison reports, and usage reports. Showback reports cannot be scheduled. Other than the create privilege for report and schedule resource types, you must have read privilege on the hierarchy, chargeback hierarchical entities, and cost models to perform this task

On the Schedule page and set the scheduling parameters.

Option                                                  Description

Report Creation Time                    When the report has to be generated.

Recurrence Pattern                         How often the report has to be generated.

Range of Recurrence                      Till when the report has to be generated periodically.

Managing Archived Reports

The Archived Reports page of the Reports tab displays a table listing all the reports archived in the application.

This includes manually generated and saved reports as well as reports generated by report schedules.

All the reports generated by a single schedule have the same name but different Created on and Billing

Period values. 

The reports are listed in the ascending order of their creation time. You can view an archived report by clicking it.

1 Export Archived Report - After a report is generated and archived, it can be exported to the required format at any time.

2 Email Archived Report - After a report is generated and archived, you can send it through email to one or more recipients.

3 Delete Archived Report - You can clear the archive by deleting unwanted reports.

4 Advanced Search for Archived Reports - You can search for specific archived reports by using the advanced search feature of vCenter Chargeback Manager.

VMware Training and Credits

Here is the summary where you can associate the VMware Training and how many training credits that course has.

Its easy to interpret the credits into the training you can attend for the courses offered by VMware Education as of today.

If you have any question and you can visit the Education and Certification site.

http://mylearn.vmware.com/portals/www/

Enjoy learning.

Understanding and Clarification about VMware Certifications

I started seeing Tweets about the new Certification Roadmap released recently and tried understanding the requirements for each track.

Clearly by looking at it you can get an idea that it will be possible to attain all the VCAP level certifications and also the VCDX level Elite certifications but that will require your expertise in specific/all areas for related  products of VMware. Mainly we can categorize these in 3 different components.

1) VMware vSphere


2) VMware vCloud



3) VMware View/Desktop

Currently the requirements for any track of VCAP available the minimum certification level you need is VCP.

As by introducing VCP-DV (Datacenter Virtualization) people are getting confused when they decide to go for VCAP-Cloud or VCAP-Desktop certifications.

Technically as per @randybecraft this is ONE AND THE SAME CERTIFICATION as VCP.

So clear up the fog, VCP5 and VCP-DV is the same certification, which is the minimum requirement.

VCP-DT is the VCP level certification for the Desktop level examination based on VMware View and ThinApp. Once passing VCP-DT one can appear for the advanced level certifications VCAP-Desktop Administration and VCAP-Desktop Design.

For vSphere related certification VCP-DV is now considered which was VCP (X) before. Then one can go for VCAP-Data Center Administrator and  VCAP-Data Center Design.

For vCloud related certifications VCP-Cloud is the minimum to attain. Then once done they can go for VCAP-Cloud Infrastructure Administration and VCAP-Cloud Infrastructure Design

Now if you click this link, it will take you to the page where you can see the above diagram but then you can click on each certification and each icon/description will take you to the mylearn page of that certification.

Currently as the Legends says you can only click the Gray colored certifications and Yellow colored certifications. The Yellow ones which are noted as New Releases.going through verifications and will be published once everything finalized.

So I will put up the links for all the certifications with required courses and recommended courses (which ever are available to take) and keep updating as the courses are going public.

Keep revisiting this post if some of the information is not up to date.

Now coming to the Elite Certification track aka VCDX there are now 3 tracks available.

vSphere ( Requires VCP-DV, VCAP-DCA, VCAP-DCD)

View     ( Requires VCP-DT, VCAP-DTA, VCAP-DTD)

vCloud  ( Requires VCP-Cloud, VCAP-CIA, VCAP-CID)

And as per my understanding and assumption to have a competency one needs to clear all 9-10 certifications and then present 3 different designs for each product separately to become a VCDX but as there are no blue prints available for View and vCloud VCDX tracks you can keep checking the VCDX certification page and check any updates there. 

Hope this clears up the confusion and help you planning your Role Based Certification/s. You can also join the Linkedin Groups I have created where you can discuss about these certifications. These are version independent groups so you can discuss anything about any version of vSphere, vCloud and View. As the new version is released, you can start discussing about it without looking for any group for that version.

For vSphere VCAP-DCD

For vCloud VCP-VCAP-VCDX

For View VCP-DT-VCAP-VCDX

Good Luck and start preparing for VCDX.

Leave the feedback if you see any discrepancy and  I will update it.

@mandivs

First Impression of VCP-IaaS (VCPVCD511)

I was one of the selected candidates who were invited for the upcoming VMware VCP-IaaS (VCP-Infrastrcture-as-a-Service) certification which is based on VMware vCloud Director 1.5 version.

Today was the last day for the BETA period for this Exam. I finished the exam with 2:00 minutes to spare.

I spent almost 2 hours everyday for last one week to prepare for this BETA Exam. As per the information I have received only 500 or so people (with VCP5 certification) were invited to appear for this BETA. I have tried to get some people on this BETA who were not invited initially but for some I succeed and for some I didn't. Well, I did whatever I can but its not in my control anyway.

First of all, as the time was so short after appearing for the VCAP5-DCA BETA, I find it difficult to shock the family within a week's time that I will be an invisible man again for few hours every day. With our new born, it is very hard to read till late night and then wake up in the middle of the night and go to work next day. But I have managed to spare some time each day by grace of my superiors at work and this is the privilege of working at such company like VMware. 
 
To start with the preparation I reviewed the blue print in detail. Made a word document outlining the main subjects and the areas to watch carefully which needs more attention. I find this easy to read this word document at the last moment on the day of the exam as a final review. I am putting one copy each on my Touchpad and Playbook too so that I can read it whenever I find spare time. 

For me, I never worked on vShield, vCloud Connector or Chargeback so those were my weak points. vCloud Director as a whole is a challenging area itself. With my networking background I felt it little relaxed while reading about the vShield Edge, vShield Manager, NAT, VPN etc. etc.

I focused mainly on these two areas and one of my colleague Jeremy Sage (@thesage11) has given me some idea about what to prepare and where to put more weight while preparing and it was bang on.

Even if this exam is the initial level of the certification hierarchy (VCP) I decided not to run out of time as one needs to finish 115 questions in 130 minutes or so. But due to the complexity of some questions, they lead me to read them again to determine the correct answer or flag them to review later. As this area was not discovered before by me I took that as a challenge and referred all the possible guides and other official documentations with some few online videos on the public training portal. These all came very handy  when you have to visualize the GUI of vCloud Director or vCenter Chargeback or vCloud Connector.

For the preparation I looked at http://mylearn.vmware.com and found one FREE self-paced course on vCloud Director 1.5 about which I Tweeted few days back and very critically recommended course Deploy and Manage the VMware vCloud {Ver 1.5}. Subsequently I found some vShield related FREE self-paced courses as well.  (@artur_ka has blogged about it here). One recommended course "VMware vCloud: Deploy and Manage [1.5]" is now available which will help preparing for this exam.

So far I found the exam following the blue print very closely as other exams such as VCAPs. If you have not worked on the vCloud Director or any other components which are integrated with it, then you may want to spend some more time playing around with it in real life or at least in your home lab. You will find the blogs on creating vCloud Lab at home using various methods so it won't be hard at all. To be frank, I have downloaded all the bits and thinking to develop one lab using Workstation at home but "Time" just beat me to it. Now before I decide about giving any other exam on the list (yeah yeah, this is never ending process) I have to finish building the home lab with vCloud and View environment sitting side by side with SRM (if I could) to see how the backup and restore works for the vCloud using SRM.

As I mentioned I had only 2 minutes to review all the flagged questions so you don't need to stress at all as by the time the Exam goes GA there may be a change in the number of questions or if there won't be any then you have enough time to prepare if you start reading/preparing on the subjects mentioned above.

Looking at this BETA, I can say that future certifications on vCloud will be unique for sure.

You can also find the similar exam experiences posted and blogged by Tomas Fojta(@fojta) here and by Tomi Hakala (@tphakala) here. @arjantim has listed all the necessary study guides for this certification.

You can also register for VCP-IaaS on http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=32003&ui=www.

GA Blue print is available here. You can also try the mock exam for VCP5-IaaS

@jshiplett has blogged about the study guide objective here.

@lhjartarson has blogged about the study guide objective here.

@davidmdavis and @jakerobinson have created vCloud Director Essential Training on Trainsignal.com

Good Luck for VCPVCD511 to all who were waiting to appear for the GA release.

I have to dedicate this name VCP-IaaS to my dear friend @PunchingClouds very heavy heartedly and I know he will forgive everyone for that.  :-)

VMware vCloud Solutions Infographic

While attending the selfpaced training for vCloud Director 1.5 I found out this #Cool (Courtesy @esloof) Infographic about all the solutions provided by VMware for mainly all the vCloud components such as IaaS, Paas and SaaS.

As you can see by going from bottom to Top you will find the solution for each layer starting with
Foundation of Cloud Computing.

This image is part of this FREE online Self-Paced Course  "VMware vCloud Director Fundamentals [V1.5]" which is for 3.5 hours and which is completely worth attending.

I would suggest this course to all the people who are new to VMware vCloud and also to those who would like to take a challenge to Pass the VCPVCD511 (aka VCP-IaaS) certification when it becomes GA later this year as a first stepping stone for the Cloud Certification.

Good Luck and hope this helps.

VMware Visio Stencils for VCDX Design

Recently I was thinking to start drawing on the whiteboard for each design component in vSphere e.g. Virtual Machine Design, Cluster Design, Storage Design, Virtual Center Server etc. etc. but then I need few whiteboards as the design grows or a bigger Desk like @FrankDenneman

Thought about using the Bamboo Tablet also as inspired by @Scott_Lowe but that requires a bigger monitor to dedicate the space.

So looking at the cost involved I am staying with Visio and just split the designs in to various pages and can work across multiple monitors.

After doing some research found out that there are Visio Stencils available at various scattered places and one needs to visit various sites to see the content.

So for all the VCDX aspirants, I have gathered all the links from VMware community forums and also referred to the posts by some of our own community members such as @maishsk @rick_vmwaretips etc. etc.

There are two Zip files with which you can download them directly but you have to go to each link to download the files.

http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/11498-6-60388/VMware-Stencil2-vSphere.zip

http://communities.vmware.com/servlet/JiveServlet/download/11498-6-60389/VMware-Stencil1-vSphere.zip

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-11498

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/24068

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-13703

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-13702

http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1338

http://viops.vmware.com/home/docs/DOC-1406

http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-stencils.html

http://technodrone.blogspot.com/visio-stencils-happy-holiday-to-you-all.html

http://graffletopia.com/stencils/475

http://www.vi-tips.com/2009/05/visio-stencils-for-vmware-icons-and.html

http://virtualisedreality.com/vmware-and-related-visio-stencils/

www.visiocafe.com

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/prod_cat_visios.html

http://vsphere-land.com/generalvi3-links/stencil-graphic-links.html

http://www.techhead.co.uk/vmware-vsphere-powerpoint-graphics-visio-stencils

http://www.vmguru.com/index.php/articles-mainmenu-62/general-mainmenu-63/33-visio-stencils

NSX Icons

Hope you find all these links useful while preparing your VCDX Design and Good Luck to you all who are going to defend at SF and Barcelona VMworld 2012.

Update:

@joshuatownsend has blogged about Visio stencils for vSphere and View Horizon which you find here.

Please share your designing skills which can help others to become a better presenter. :-)

Cheers

 

Product Update Releases by VMware

VMware has released the following upgrades to the existing products which are mainly categorized in to the following.

Datacenter & Cloud Infrastructure

              

•             vShield Endpoint 1.0 U3 (Thin Agent)    
•       ESXi 4.1 P05
•       VMware vCloud Usage Meter 2.x

             Application Platform

      

• vFabric tc Server 2.6.5
• vFabric Hyperic 4.5.3.1
• vFabric SQL Fire 1.0.2

Infrastructure Operations Management

    

• VMware Service Manager (French) 9.1
• vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 1.1
• vCenter Application Discovery Manager 6.2.2
• vCenter Operations Manager 5.0.1

End-user Computing

• ThinApp 4.7.1

     

     All the other downloads can be accessed from here.

My Linkedin Groups for Certifications

I have created few groups on Linkedin for all the VMware lovers which is focused on certifications such as VCP, VCAPx-DCD, VCPx-DT, vCloud and VCAPx-DT (coming soon)

Here are the links so please feel free to join and discuss.

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/VCAPDCD-vSphere-41-50-3672027?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/VCAPDT-VMware-View-46-50-3799029?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr


http://www.linkedin.com/groups/vCloud-15-vSphere-5-VCP-3999514?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/VCPDT-VMware-View-45-46-3799006?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr

You can also follow me on Linkedin and Twitter @mandivs

Thanks for your time.