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VCDX for VMware vSphere 4

craig — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:29:38 +0000

VMware had officially announced the certification path to obtain the VCDX version 4 recently. Now is time for all of us who are keen to proceed with VCDX 4 to understand the path to obtain the certification level.

you need to obtain VCP 4.
You will require to Pass the VCAP – Datacenter Design Exam
Submit a VCDX4-DCD Application that is accepted
Successfully present and defend a VMware Infrastructure Design and Implementation Plan

VCAP4 – Datacenter Administration
Gain industry recognition for your technical leadership in the planning and administration of vSphere technologies. Learn more about VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Administration certification and get started today.
VCAP4-DCA exam opens July 12!

VCAP4 – Datacenter Design
Gain recognition for technical leadership in data center design methodologies and principles of vSphere technologies. Learn more about VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Datacenter Design certification and get started today.
VCAP4-DCD exam opens in August!

You can read more information from the official link

I will be excited to proceed for this.

Free 2nd try if you failed your 1st round on VCP 410

craig — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:08:49 +0000

Now there are offer for free on 2nd attempt on the VCP 410 exam if you had previously failed your VCP 410 exam. You may read more information from here.

Exam Score with VCP 4

craig — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 03:40:10 +0000

With the new VCP 410 exam just launched, there had been quite a number of discussion going on to clarify the new scoring system vmware decided in the VCP 4 exam. I will suggest you all to refer to the link here which describe in details how the scoring system been defined in the new VCP 4.

I Pass my VCP 4 Exam Today

craig — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:00:24 +0000

Finally, I passed my VCP 4 exam today. I spend around 1 hour and 20 mins for the entire session to complete the 85 questions. I am impressed with the questions during the test which is not straight forward and easy as previous exam in VCP 3. For my session, most question are related to hands on experience related to the virtual infrastructure.

VCP 4 mock exam is available at vmware educational website. You may want to refer simon long’s blog to prepare the VCP 4 exam. Both should be helpful. Additional to that, you should also practice in test environment about the HA, DRS, FT, Resource pools and etc.

Good Luck !!!

Suggestion to VMware

craig — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:46:37 +0000

Welcome to the year 2009 and I do hope to see the changes from VMware in term of their products strategy & marketing strategy too. Everybody aware that the price for the ESX enterprise could be the show stoppers to some of the potential users who want to choose VMware instead of the competitors such as Hyper V and Xen. In the current economy downturn, VMware should try to reduce the licensing costing to increase the market share which could be benefits to their customer. Customer will always sign up for the support agreement on yearly basis and it does allow VMware to generate revenue in long term base.

Beside this, training and certification are big issues in here. Most users will not affordable the training fees which is very expensive today to get certify. The value of the VCP should be the quality of deliver, and it shouldn’t be restricted to rich guy who able to pay for the course fees. Most expert are capable and experience but had not been attended any training and not certify which due to the expensive training cost.

I am not agreed with the product name changing from VI4 to vSphere which created unnecessary confuse to the existing users as well as to the new users. ESX had been a strong name and even until today, when I chat with my friend, we still talk about VI4, ESX 4 but not vSphere. It will take a little while to make ourselves use to the new naming which defined by VMware thanks to the marketing team’s new IDEA. Personal Point of view, the IT products is survived and success by the products quality, and not the name. VMware and ESX is branding, which is not an easy built up & strong branding in the pass.

VCP certification getting most high pay?

jlchannel — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:17:39 +0000

Look at the this:

The VCP (VMware Certified Professional) certification getting the most high paid compare to other such as A+, CCEA, RHCE, RHCT, MCSE, MCP, MCA, and Server+.

Basically this is an average salary of jobs based on indeed.com

Do you think you can get such high paid in Malaysia? I have 2 friend that getting their VCP in Malaysia this year and I don’t think they get more than Ringgit Malaysia 10K per month. This amount $12300/12=$10250 per month is far away. In fact, having a VCP certificate does not mean they know everything about VMware, sometimes I would said working experience is much more important than certificate. It’s a just a paper!

Again can I assume Malaysia IT engineer still under pay? What do you think?