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VCP[4] - Passed

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:10:08 GMT

Well done!

Andre

Just passed VCP3, am I eligible for enrolling for VCP4?

weinstein5 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:54:42 GMT

Congratulations

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Passed VI3 Today, quick question...

weinstein5 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:50:52 GMT

I second Scott's opinion - go ahead and register for the VCP 4.10 exam using the same e-mail address -

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Passed today ..... yeah

mcrampton — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:53:10 GMT

Congrats mate. I passed mine today as well with a 456.

Just passed VCP-310....Next up VCP4

Ajay Nabh — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:02:40 GMT

thanks Eire09. Appreciate your comments.

Cheers
Aj

VCenter Test Environment

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:33:55 GMT

Can you use the VI client from the vCenter?
Try this test with a RDP session to see if you can reach the ESX.

Andre

VCP 4 Certification

scott28tt — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:03:57 GMT

They haven't been sent out yet. There is a new certificate and logo design, and a Workstation 7 license too - but they've yet to ship.

Scott.

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how many nics and scsi adapter a VM can have ?

weinstein5 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:51:23 GMT

Good point Scott

Sent from my iPhone

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VCP Certification material

scott28tt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 21:39:30 GMT

My blog and web site both have a variety of pages dedicated to the VCP4 - study material, my review of the exam, all the links to all the best resources to use.... the number 1 piece of advice is to focus heavily on the content of the exam blueprint document.

Scott.

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Unable to load scsi drivers for a VM XP build...

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:59:33 GMT

If you use a virtual SCSI controller you have to follow weinstein5's link.
If you have vSphere you can also choose to use a virtual IDE controller, to resolv this problem.

Andre

Unused portion of Memory & CPU

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:45:29 GMT

Thanks Scott.
Very clear explanation.

Andre

Blueprint for VCP 4

scott28tt — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:39:31 GMT

My blog and web site both contain all the links to all the things you should need for the VCP4 exam, including the blueprint, the mock exam, my study advice, my experience of the exam.....

Scott.

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some questions from blueprint VCP310

weinstein5 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:55:16 GMT

Andre's link about infiniband and 10Ge is pretty good - and yes 2 virtual cpus will always run on seperate cires or physical cpus

A logical cpu is where the virtual cpu is scheduled - it could be a physical CPU, core or HT -

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How do I use the iso images in \datastores\vmimages\tools-images?

AndreTheGiant — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:44:18 GMT

Can I build an iso image from my separate pc's that I have?

There are several program for this purpose.
For example http://www.imgburn.com/

Andre

Answer mock exam

jonhall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:20:29 GMT

It should be mentioned that the course is not intended to cover all of the objectives for the exam. The course covers about 80% of the exam objectives, the rest need to be picked up via experience or documentation or both.

Jon C. Hall
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Which is proper: VCP or VCP4

jonhall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:50:30 GMT

I suppose that is a valid question. If you have passed the VCP exam (which can be verified on the VUE site), and you have taken an authorized class, you can be pretty sure you are certified. The only time this is not the case is if:

1. You took the exam and the exam center reports that you conducted activity during the exam that might invalidate your results
2. You took the class but did not fully attend and were marked incomplete

You can always e-mail certification@vmware.com and request your VCP ID, which can be used to verify your status.

Regards,

Jon C. Hall
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Doing the exam today...Couple of pointers before I go in needed....

jonhall — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:40:29 GMT

All,

Please take care in posting questions like these. If the items come from an actual exam or from the mock exam, they should NOT be posted in the community. In general, if you need an answer to a specific item, you can PM myself or one of the other senior VCPs on the community.

Thanks!

Jon C. Hall
Technical Certification Developer
VMware, Inc.

Bad VCP4 Exam Experience (aka Riddle me this...?)

Troy Clavell — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:23:41 GMT

Thanks for stepping in John as I am not the right person to validate the users concerns regarding the testing process.

I was just about to post the reply to have the OP email certification@vmware.com

Few Queries

scott28tt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:20 GMT

The Install Configure Manage and Fast Track training courses both have a few notes on VCB, and do compare VCB and Data Recovery. I would advise that knowledge would be useful for the VCP4 exam. I'm not saying you need to know about how to "do VCB", just know a few facts about it and how it compares to Data Recovery.

Scott.

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VCP4 Exam Scheduling

Aizret — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:27:13 GMT

Thanks. That is exactly why I was asking. I wasn't sure if I would qualify for the free re-take if I had scheduled the exam without meeting the requirements - and I was thinking that if the vmware site didn't reflect my account as having passed the exam, I wasn't sure if I would be considered as meeting them..

Now, it seems like it will be no problem to get the code and register for the exam. I definitely want to take it before the end of the year, and since I'm managing a vSphere environment and just passed the VCP3 exam, I don't believe I'll be having much trouble (though the free re-take is a great incentive to try before studying very hard). Thanks again.

Have my VCP3, going for VCP4 before 31/12/09. Does VMware know that I'm eligible?

scott28tt — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:21:43 GMT

Matt, you meet the eligibility for VCP4 if you pass the exam before the end of the year, go for it. VMware are running a free re-take for the VCP4 exam, also until the end of the year, register for your code through vmware.com/certification.

Scott.

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passed vco301, now on to 401

jpratt_at_norwich_dot_edu — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:36:09 GMT

Thanks again to both Scott and Andre, another pass is good, i'm a happy camper! I over-achieved again, but oh well, you can't complain there i guess... nothing like learning it inside-out!

cheers!

Jamie

VCP + Support Status

chrisaug — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:18:19 GMT

Hey, I don't mean to drum up an old post but I fully agree with you. I have had to contact tech support 3 times so far and only once were they even able to help me. As a sidenote, the one time they helped me was when I first started with vSphere and didn't know how to fix a problem. I was not yet a VCP or anywhere close to one. Now, being more familiar with VS4 I've had to call twice with issues and I ended up working with tech support for weeks and eventually resolved the issues my self. At one point I had the tech support person and his manager on the line and I could hear her in the background saying "I don't know, this is different than the old version... <long pause> I don't know".

I understand that training is important and it is how they learn. I did send the tech support person a detailed email telling him how I went about fixing my issue. It just would have been nice if I could go right to a Tier 2 or 3 person instead of screwing around for over a week.

Chris
VCP4

vSphere Training?

scott28tt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:35:58 GMT

Not quite true - the Troubleshooting course is still being finalised and should be released in the next month or so.

The Design and Scripting & Automation courses are still in development, they should both be released in the first few months of 2010.

Scott.

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Finally passed my VCP4! 2 full weeks solid study, buldging disc and numb thumb but I did it!!!!

kdewitt — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:09:30 GMT

Thank you Scott for your insight.

I've actually gone a more primative route and used two motherboards from Intel that have the Atom CPU's! Talk about a poor man's Environment. The motherboard is nice because it's fanless and the Atom CPU is 2 core. It actually works pretty well for me for my DiscCloud environment as the DC VM's don't require much memory (1Gb each) and I can easily over-subscribe the memory and get a small vSphere playground set up very quickly and very low cost (D945GCLF2 motherboards can be found for as low as $85) I'll try to put some detail on my metaflo.ning.com blog site about it.

The main reason I hate to mention ESX on atom it is that one needs to muck around w/ the ESXi configuration files in order to get ESXi to work correctly with the on-board NIC. Once I got that working, it comes right up and runs quite well.

The second reason I hate to mention it is that currently, these motherboards (D945GCLF2) are limited to only 2GB of memory but Intel is about to release a newer model that will handle up to 4GB - still a bit limited for Window's VMs but it works perfectly for my DC VM's environment for Mac.

Mastery Score for Vmware VCP-410

Jain — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:12:30 GMT

The passing score for the VCP4 exam is 300. The exam is scored on a scale of 100 to 500. Ref : VCP FAQ

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Become a VCP for Free Voucher

kdc — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 04:50:33 GMT

Just a update guys.

Just recieved my voucher and already booked exam for next week!

Thanks for your help.

VCP4 exam dumps

SAR1124 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:50:19 GMT

Hello

I just pass VCP410. My advise is follow the blue print and it helps and understand the product. And you need hands on experience about ESX 4 also I have used Scot Blogs and Simonlong/Blog. Simonlong site is Absolutely brilliant and very helpfull. Thanks Simon.

Thanks

Dan

Small exam in the beginning of VCP 4 ??

RickBoyett — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:36:42 GMT

scott28tt wrote:

RickBoyett wrote:If I recall, there is skill survey before the actual exam starts. It doesn't have any bearing on whether you pass or fail.

That is true Rick, but this question was related to the start of the course rather than the start of the exam.

Scott.

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DOH!! I misread that..

Club 400+ what is it? Anyway, I'm in... VCP 410 passed today with score of 400

Winni0815 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:02:34 GMT

Hello 400 people *g,

I passed my VCP on 22nd of october with 494 points. A nearly clear run and 4 weeks of hard studying (big thks to Scott for helpful infos for preparing).

After completing the training I decided to put the course books away and studying the actual admin, FC, ISCSI, ressource and "maximus" config guide.
I also read many white papers regading VSWITCH (especially Std. vs Distributed switches)

The V-Ref card was also my daily "newspaper" on my way to work and back home, a really good ressource when talking about VSPHERE in my opinion.

If anyone is still preparing for the exam I recommend to install and configure VSPHERE several times, configure HA as well as ressource pools and also take a look on Data recovery as well as "sleep" with the guide of VSwitch *g (most of the 85 questions are "switched" ones)

I was surprised that there were not so many questions (maybe 5) about config limits

To all people who are passed with less than 400 points : it does not really count and a VCI is not made of 400+ points, a pass is a pass, that counts

Best regards from Germany

Marcus

Survey at end of the exam...

scott28tt — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:52:20 GMT

The survey does come at the end of the VCP-410 exam, it was at the start of the VCP2 and VCP3 exams.

It makes no difference to your score whatsoever.

Scott.

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Taking the exam and currently taking the class

MasterUniverse — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 07:11:35 GMT

Thanks, That it is what I was looking for.

and for that, I am helping the school setting up vmware 4, and what is best to teach for the students.

VCP3 and vm Workstation 7

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 05:15:17 GMT

Candidates who pursue and obtain the VCP4 certification will receive Workstation 7 licenses, once we have finished the internal process required to obtain those licenses we will get them out.

This is the reason for the VCP4 welcome kit delay?

Andre

Nearly there?

scott28tt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:11:26 GMT

You might or might not have to attend a course, here are your choices:

1. If you get your VCP3 now, you will get your VCP4 before the end of 2009 if you pass the VCP4 exam - no What's New course attendance required, you could self-study.

2. If you get your VCP3 now, and don't pass the VCP4 exam before the end of 2009, you will HAVE to attend at least the What's New course and pass the VCP4 exam to get your VCP4.

3. If you don't do the VCP3 exam, you will HAVE to attend at least the What's New course and pass the VCP4 exam to get the VCP4 - either now in 2009 or into 2010.

And by "at least the What's New course", I mean you also have the option of attending Install Configure Manage, or the Fast Track courses for vSphere. It's up to you when you sit the VCP4 exam, you could do it before the What's New course, but would you benefit from the course if you already had your VCP4?

Scott.

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Some advice about VCP410 exam

GregL75 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:56:00 GMT

Just sharing my experience... I initialy used the mock exam provided by vmware on their website to build myself a study plan... did not very well the 1st time.

Information needed to book VCP4

scott28tt — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:08:45 GMT

That path has been in place since the launch of VCP4, and has not changed.

Scott.

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Blueprint with notes. Very useful

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:04:22 GMT

is there such thing for VCP310?

Have a look at:
VCP 3.5 study notes
VCP 310 Exam

Andre

Launch of my new web site - Think Virtually

scott28tt — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:30:58 GMT

Thanks guys!

I'll be keeping the blog going as well as the web site, and both are growing in terms of visitors and content.

Scott.

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Some infos on VCP4

rothb — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:00:24 GMT

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In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an unseren Service Desk (Tel.: 2098 oder hotline@klilu.de).

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VCP Study help

Ajay Nabh — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:14:40 GMT

Thanks Scott again for your time. I Guess I will be quite for sometime as I have now enough info for few days. thanks to all for your time

cheers

VCP 4 Certification Completed Today !!

AndreTheGiant — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:14:10 GMT

Well done!

Andre

VCP Certification

CDarazs — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:24:18 GMT

Thanks

Csaba

VCP Login

scott28tt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:01:27 GMT

No-one has yet received the welcome kit for VCP4. Historically it was always 6-8 weeks, but no-one has seen the VCP4 kit yet.

Scott.

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Passed my VCP410

scott28tt — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:58:56 GMT

My blog and web site both have articles/pages on the VCP exams, you'll find the links in my signature below.

The VCP4 exam has 85 questions, you have 90 minutes, the exam is not adaptive, and you need to get a score of 300 or better to pass.

Scott.

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VCP 310 - VSphere certification track

rbihlmeyer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:35:40 GMT

VCP3 will not lose its validity -- "just" its usefulness.

E.g. for a specific partner level (enterprise, premier) a company needs a number of VCPs. This will need to be VCP4s after a grace period. I think the exact numbers and dates depend on your region.

If you use your VCP creds to impress customers or would-be employers, VCP3 will obviously gradually lose its luster.

Robert Bihlmeyer / ASSIST / Internet Security AG

voucher confirmation?

mlubinski — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:13:00 GMT

Thanks for quick answer and for wishes. I hope I will not need this second shot though

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VCP3 - is this the end at end of 2009

mattrgee — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:09:27 GMT

This is now listed in the FAQ section of VMware's site:

When is the latest I can take the VI3 exam?
The VCP on VMware Infrastructure 3 exam will be available until December 31, 2009.
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Certification FAQ

Passed VCP 410 today

scott28tt — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:05:54 GMT

See my earlier replies in this thread. If you want to work for a VATC, contact those in your area. If you want to work on a freelance/contract basis, you will need to contact VMware Education. Passing the VCP4 exam with a score of 350 or more is just the start.

You will need to be ready and able to deliver the vSphere: Install Configure Manage course to a certain standard, you will need to attend a VCI Workshop run by VMware where they will assess you.

Scott.

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Passed VCP-410 today with 500. Not as difficult as VCP-310 was.

vmroyale — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:42:37 GMT

Congratulations!

Hurray !!!!! Cleared VCP !!!!

vmroyale — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:42:06 GMT

Congratulations!

Just passed the VCP- 410 with a 431

vmroyale — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:34:57 GMT

Congratulations!

VCP 410 manual

JDLangdon — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 11:27:13 GMT

scott28tt wrote:
I agree, but I'm sure that was for your own private convenience, the books were already yours anyway, and you wouldn't distribute it here on a public VMware forum would you?

You are correct. This was for my private use. I'm very protective over my course ware.

________________________________
Jason D. Langdon

Can esx 3.5 and vc 2.5 be downloaded?

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:46:06 GMT

To download them you need a user and a password.
If you do not have a valid one (especially for VC), you can evaluate View 3 and you will have also a key for VI 3.5

Andre

VCP4 welcome kit

asluser — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:37:35 GMT

I also wait the VCP4 welcome kit, have anyone recevie the kit ?

Victor Wu - VCP4,VSP4,VTSP4,VCP3,EMCPA,MCTS,SCP,SCS,ICDL

Interested in How Everyone's Study Techniques for VCP-410

PMan88 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:34:43 GMT

Thanks for the help everyone. I got so busy with work and studying that I just noticed that I had forgotten to thank you all for the help (not good manners for my first post .

Again, thanks for the help and should I have anymore questions, I know who to ask from now on.

Good luck to those studying for the VCP.

PMan

VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage Class

drearucks — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:00:07 GMT

Hey folks,

I just took the vSphere 4 class and thought I'd give a shout out to the teach, Brian Lewis. Brian's a great teacher. He actually taught me Unix / Linux 11 years ago through the U of M Unix / C / C++ Certification course, and made the light bulb go on over my head when I had trouble learning KSH shell scripting. Back then he put on a Saturday class, on his own time, which about 5 of us attended. Small world, great teacher. I never expected to bump into him as a teacher of VMware (he was a SCO Ace when SCO was cool, and in pre-litigation pre-bankruptcy phase).

Similar to 11 years ago, he made the light bulb go on over my head for VMware (a hardened Unix - Linux veteran). Anyone who can speak kindly about both Windows and Unix - Linux is a treasure (an equal opportunity OS supporter is rare). If you (VMware management folks) let him leave you in the future (not saying it will happen), it's your loss, because he’s a keeper.

To anyone else wondering about taking this class, and is a total VMware noob like myself (my class was filled with seasoned Windows / VMware admins), I highly recommend it. Me myself, I'm certified on Solaris and Red Hat and have admin'ed HP-UX, Solaris, Red Hat, SuSE, AIX, Unixware, and Tru64. I was genuinely impressed with the depth and breadth of what VMware can do (it'll be interesting to see a match up between Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and VMware and whether RHEV can stack up to vSphere 4). Brian taught the class without any bias, showing me a great tip on how to edit the /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml file to fix broken VMware root perms (gotta love the command line, and VMware is running a heavily modified RHEL kernel after all).

Trivia question for the masses: Why is VMware running a RHEL modified kernel? Take Brian's class to find out if you don't know the real answer.

Cheers,
Andrea

How to associate VCP# to my profile?

SAR1124 — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 04:37:50 GMT

Thank you

Dan

VCP Study Environment?

foxynet — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:03:51 GMT

Jason,

My study environment was a MacMini 2,1 1.83GHz and a MacBook 5,1 2GHz - both with 2GB RAM.

While this was bearly usable due to the lack of RAM, it did work (I passed my VCP).

I found a marked performance improvement once I upgraded to Fusion 3.

Another big issue was disk latency, so don't skimp on the drives and/ or use external storage.

One advantage of running a Windows laptop as mentioned above is the ability to run the vSphere client locally - but if you get desperate you could run Windows natively on your Mac under bootcamp.

HTH

Greg

A couple of pre test questions

JPDiCicco1 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:52:50 GMT

I hope Player isn't an option for the question about creating VMs, as just-released version 3 CAN!

Manage Availability

scott28tt — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:34:16 GMT

Hi Andre,

The plan is for some of those 1-2 day courses to be "bundled" together into the Advanced course that Jon mentioned in his reply. I don't expect this to happen until into Q1 2010, as some of the individual courses that will make up this Advanced course are not due for release until then. From Jon's reply, it sounds like this Advanced course will also qualify you for VCP4.

Scott.

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Question regarding the VCP#

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:23:06 GMT

I was more interested in obtaining the VCP ID # since my employer is looking for it so that the sales folks can get authorized at a higher partner level.

This could take other extra time.
Create you user in Partner Network under the right partner.
Then when you have the VCP# ask at Certification@vmware.com to bind it to your account.

Andre

Does somebody have dumps for preparing for ESX 4.0 exam

scott28tt — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:57:53 GMT

You will not find dumps here, it should be no surprise to you that VMware discourage the use of them. I would avoid dumps anyway, they are notoriously full of mistakes and can actually make it harder for you to pass the exam - not easier.

Scott.

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VCP

scott28tt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:01:28 GMT

No problem Ket, we are normally a friendly bunch on here

Best of luck for the exam(s)!

Scott.

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Regarding VCP 4

AndreTheGiant — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:57:26 GMT

Does that mean you get a new VCP number?

In the score report the number was the same of VCP3.

Andre

Mock Exam VCP3 not working

ppapared — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:34:13 GMT

Thanks for the feed back. I wish my issue was scoring to high on the mock exam. If that was the case, I wouldn't be too concerned

I ended up creating a new account on the website to see if it was my account or the computer. My new test account has no problem being able to access the mock exam and running through it. When logging back to my normal account, the error pops up again. It is definitely account related. I contacted support with the website and workingn with them now.

Thanks again for the help.

Just passed the VCP- 410 with a 394

chansell — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:50:57 GMT

Thanks! I was very pleased. I'm also one who drives for perfection, so I wish I knew what questions I got incorrcet so I could study those areas.

What is a VCP Enterprise ?

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:38 GMT

Although I remember hearing something about a Master VCP cert in the works at some point.

I've open a thread some month ago... but no news about it.
Re: Master VCP

Andre

retail price

Jae Ellers — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:23:15 GMT

If you're working on purchasing some VMware licenses for your company you may be able to work some VMware training into the deal. Also, many partners get a discount.

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VCP4 exam beta

Jae Ellers — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:18:22 GMT

I have not seen a welcome kit yet. Passed the VCP4 at VMworld, Sept. 3rd. Heard they were updating the cert.

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Will the VCP 4 Welcome Kit have a Workstation 7 license

Nerbin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 14:09:29 GMT

Scott,

Thanks for the response and thanks for you blog website. I used your website along other materials to study.

Cheers,

Nerbin

Virtual remote lab, any recommendations?

scott28tt — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 13:32:47 GMT

If you have a relationship with a VMware partner, they may have something that you could use....

If you want to rent a lab, you could try this: http://www.virtualization.info/rent-a-lab/

Scott.

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VCP certification for Vsphere

DanieleF — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:17:28 GMT

Thx andre u are my man!

Just Passed VCP-410! Watch what you study...

AndreTheGiant — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:41:28 GMT

Congratulations for the pass

Andre

Newbie Help Required Regarding Which Course To Take

scott28tt — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:20:19 GMT

As you currently meet neither of the requirements (attend official course, pass exam) for either the VCP3 or VCP4, I would forget VCP3 and go straight for VCP4.

To get your VCP4 via the VCP3 route you will have to attend a VI3 course, pass the VCP3 exam, and pass the VCP4 exam, all before 31st December 2009, or you will also have to attend at least the 2-day vSphere What's New course if you don't do it in time before the end of the year. If you forget the VCP3, and just worry about getting VCP4, you will have to attend either the vSphere ICM or Fast Track courses (as per my earlier reply) and pass the VCP4 exam - and the incentive to do those things in 2009 is the free re-take currently available for the VCP4 exam.

Send me a private message through the forum, and I can try and get you a deal on the vSphere courses

Scott.

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which course prepares you better?

radiolandog — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:12:12 GMT

Thanks, Scott.

I'll be Fast Tracking it all next week!

-dog

How tough is the VCP4 exam?

VMwarerookie — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:08:39 GMT

Sorry Scott - shoud have mentioned you blog! It is also very helpful (I have it on RSS feed these days)

hands on ?

scott28tt — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:15:15 GMT

I would definitely recommend some additional hands-on, particularly as you don't get to use the software regularly where you work.

As others have said, you can download ESX and vCenter, and use them in evaluation mode for 60 days. You also have the option of running a full vSphere lab in virtual machines using a high-spec PC and VMware Workstation - there is a paper over at xtravirt.com which will help.

Scott.

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VCP 4 Exam is HARD!

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:38:02 GMT

Congratulations.
Yes... exam is not so easy, also for people that work with this products.
And you have to know good all features

I have just passed with 363

Well done.

Andre

Vue exam status

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:20:39 GMT

Don't worry about the VUE status
You have passed the exam, this is the most important thing.
Now you have to wait a lot for the welcome kit.

Andre

reg VCP

scott28tt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:25:20 GMT

Andre has already linked to my Think Virtually web site, I have a blog too - the links are below.

The exam currently contains 85 questions, and you have 90 minutes to answer the questions - your exam appointment will show as 105 minutes but that includes a separate 15 minutes to complete on-line surveys etc.

Scott.

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Assistance with blueprint

scott28tt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:19:35 GMT

It might be easier to review the Install & Configure course material (assuming you have it) for the specific things you highlighted - there are slides on each of those points. Andre is pretty close, remember that all those points are related to the ESX installation, so "walk through" the installation and you'll see all the options available.

Scott.

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Associate my Class Info with VCP

scott28tt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:15:17 GMT

Either before you started the course, or at the start of it, you would have registered your attendance using the information you mention.

Book the exam with Pearson VUE using the same email address you used to register on the course. VMware compare the "passed the exam" database against the "attended the course" database, and your email address matching in both databases is all that is needed.

Scott.

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VCP exam - is it too late?

scott28tt — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:07:15 GMT

Sorry, I'm not in London next week - I'm delivering a vSphere Fast Track course elsewhere....

Gateshead? I'm not from that far North. I've done the odd course up in Sunderland, and sometimes Leeds/Wakefield, but mostly in the South East. Best of luck for the course

Scott.

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VCP Welcome kit not received.

fluture206 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:33:58 GMT

thanks ajesha008 for the phone number ... I called them and talekd to a very nice lady that was able to help me.

emailing certification@vmware.com was a waiste of time for me...

call them at :Certification Hotline: 1-866-377-4710, option 4

Which is the right VCP3 exam blueprint?

fatbobsufc — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:26:31 GMT

Thanks guys, appreciate the responses.

vcp certification without online course

weinstein5 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:52:10 GMT

Onsite courses break even when you have about 7-8 people who will take the class - otherwise it is cheaper to either take the online or public class -

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Certification

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:39:18 GMT

Does anyone have any thoughts on this, are there any Vmware courses that can be done online etc

At this this you can take two VCP certification: VCP310 or VCP410.

Both require a related official course (and you have to spend some money depending on the course) and both require also to pass a exam (also with a "little" fee).

Couse VCP310 exam could be retired, you can start directly with VCP410 exam.

Official documentation:
http://www.vmware.com/support/pubs/vs_pages/vsp_pubs_esx40_vc40.html

The official Blueprint is available at:
http://mylearn.vmware.com/lcms/mL_faq/2726/VCPonvSphere4ExamBlueprint.pdf
Some version with study notes:
http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-upgrade-study-notes/
http://professionalvmware.com/category/vcp/
Review of VCP4 exam

Andre

Passed my VCP4 exam today

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:33:06 GMT

Congratulations... very well done.

Andre

how to begin studying for VCP

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:22:59 GMT

Other links...

Study notes:
http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-upgrade-study-notes/
http://professionalvmware.com/category/vcp/
Review of VCP4 exam

Official Mock Exam for VCP4:
http://mylearn.vmware.com/quiz.cfm?item=15211
But there are SimonLong's practice exams:
http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/vcp-vsphere-4-practice-exam/
And also Scott's notes:
http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2009/09/studying-for-vcp-on-vsphere-4.html

Other useful links:
VMware vSphere 4.0 training book
http://vmwaretraining.blogspot.com/2009/09/studying-for-vcp-on-vsphere-4.html
http://www.vreference.com/vsphere4-notes/

Andre

2nd Chance voucher - Paying with PSO credits

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:20:13 GMT

Apparently you can't pay for your exam with credits and use the 2nd chance voucher?

Seems not possible using web: both are using a voucher during the exam payment, but you can put only one voucher.
Maybe with a telephone booking it could possible.

Andre

VMware support VirtualCenter with SQL Server using Windows authentication

scott28tt — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:47:54 GMT

Page 68 of the VirtualCenter Installation Guide: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35u2/vi3_35_25_u2_installation_guide.pdf

"Microsoft Windows NT authentication is not supported with remote SQL Server."

Scott.

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Just passed my vcp310 today

ismet — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:47:45 GMT

it was not very easy with silly questions, but I did it

D-day

spraggab — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:57:56 GMT

well, i guess the last two months and my paranoia really paid off because I passed easily.

Thanks to everyone who helped me out on this site!

Passed VCP-310 with 85% and have a question

raghua — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:11:29 GMT

Hi,

this is Raghupathi, Working for Volvo IT, As Sr. System eng...... Now am planning to go for VCP certification so pls help me out and course contents and any usefull docs pls forward to my ID raghu1mails@gmail.com

Regards,

RAghupathi Lingappa

I passed VCP 4 yesterday :D

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:48:13 GMT

Congratulations for the exam pass.

Andre

questions on exam blueprint

AndreTheGiant — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:33:27 GMT

What does this mean 'configure service console availability'?

This question could also be related to VMware HA... without 'service console availability' you could have a warning and also HA could not work well if you loose a link.
Related to HA, the solution could also be different than using NIC teaming, for example could simple be 'add another service console/management interface'.

Andre

VI3 Exam retiring end of year?

scott28tt — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:04:21 GMT

You should still be able to take the What's New course in 2010, certainly the first few months of the year - as time goes on demand for that course will reduce. You could also attend the Install, Configure, Manage or the Fast Track courses - they will be readily available for a long time yet....

Scott.

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VCI: what does that mean?

stephane13 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:00:04 GMT

Thankyou / Merci

VCB Question

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:24:17 GMT

When VCB proxy works in a VM it can use a new specific transport mode: hot-add.

Andre

Never received 2nd shot voucher...

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:21:29 GMT

You have to wait.
The voucher request is like a course... it must be expire first.
Then you will receive an email with the voucher number.

Vmware offering Free Re-take Voucher for existing VCP's upgrading to Vsphere

Andre