VCDX Design submission. Mission accomplished.

Doing the VCDX design in these two weeks has been a crazy ride, I spent near twelve hours a day creating, drawing and reviewing a (in my opinion) great documentation.

As many others before me I can clearly say that this is the most challenging part in the whole VCDX experience, sure, the Enterprise Admin exam was tricky, and studying for the Design exam was a thought task (the blueprint wasn’t that clear…) but compiling the Application Form and preparing all the documentation as requested by VMware was a really demanding task. Doing that with a two weeks deadline was an epic job for me, I’m not used to that pressure .

But now that I submitted the design I can sleep tight at night, if the design will be accepted I’ll defend the first week of November in Cambridge, MA.

I wish to thank my wife for supporting me and for yelling at me at 3am forcing me to go to bed

Technorati Tags: VCDX, VMware, Design

links for 2010-08-19

• Greg's Cable Map
  An incredibly cool undersea cable map, with every kind of informations on them, it's amazing.
  (tags: cable infrastructure internet map visualization)

VMware Design Exam, been there, done that!

Like many before, I borrow this post title from (the always great) Duncan Epping to say that I’ve sit through the Design Exam and PASSED!

This time I scored 400, a little better than my VCE310, which in my opinion was much harder.

The day before taking the test I did an extensive research on the Internet to see what the other who passed VCD310 were saying about the test, and after taking it I can affirm that everyone was right there was one of the multiple-answer question with a duplicated answer, leading to an impossible to answer question, also the design portion was quite messy, I completed it with 10 seconds left but I’m sure that my drawing was awful.

Right now I should be on holiday but I’m neck-deep into the VCDX application form, I’m trying to reach the last deadline for VCDX3 defenses which is August 30th, wish me luck!

Technorati Tags: VMware, vSphere, VCDX, VCD310

VMware Fusion updated to 3.1.1

Just a quick entry to say that VMware Fusion was just updated to version 3.1.1, here you can find the release notes.

The most important change (in my opinion) is regarding vSphere 4.1 support, now you can run ESX 4.1 on Fusion, definitely fundamental if you’re a developer or an architect.

Technorati Tags: VMware, vSphere, Fusion

links for 2010-08-09

• A Series of Virtual Failures
  A really cool blog, right now focused on ThinApp and VCAP-DCA study.
• Troubleshooting Virtual Machine snapshot problems
  A really comprehensive guide to VMware snapshot troubleshooting, it contains everything and is really well written.