I listened to a recent Nutanix .NEXT Community Podcast (Episode #6) that had Mark Brunstad talking about the education and certification plans of Nutanix. Very interesting, it confirms a speculative post I wrote last year after VMworld US 2014 based upon rumours I heard around the Blogger’s Area. There is also Steve Kaplan’s blog post that alludes to this.
Category: VCDX
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vBrownbag VCDX series
Last week we had a vBrownbag VCDX panel discussion with Chris Colotti, Karl Childs, Rob Nolen, Greg Robertson and myself.
Greg is planning additional vBrownbag VCDX sessions over the coming weeks, just tweet @vBrownbag with your suggested topics for discussion and he will try to make it happen.
VCDX – Recoverability impacting Availability Explained
I have mentored quite a few VCDX candidates over the past year and the biggest weakness I see (and I was no different) is how Recoverability impacts Availability. In particular, the relationship of SLAs to BC/DR and Backup/Recovery.
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VCDX Deep-Dive Series
This post aggregates all of my “VCDX Deep-Dive” content since 2014.
VCDX – Ask, Listen, React
I was on a group VCDX conference call with Chris Colotti, Matt Vandenbeld, Alexander Thoma, Karl Childs and a few other VCDX’s, where the discussion focused on the upcoming PEX VCDX Workshop (formerly known as the bootcamps). One of the key messages from Chris, Matt and Alex that is going to be delivered to VCDX candidates: “During the Design and Troubleshooting scenarios, be careful about what questions you ask and make sure you listen to the Panelist’s answer and react to it.” – Matt Vandenbeld
VCDX Design with vSphere 6.0
For all you VCDX Candidates out there, with vSphere 6.0 about to be generally available (complete speculation on my side – 2 Feb 2015), submitting vSphere 6.0 designs for your VCDX defence is not a good idea until Update 1 is released (probably August 2015).
Otherwise, you will have to explain how you will mitigate the risks that come with GA code and how they will impact your Customer’s Mission-Critical and Business-Critical services. Which is not a pleasant conversation to have.
VCDX Link-O-Rama RSS File
Sick of trying to filter specific VCDX content from the flood of RSS blog aggregators? I took the “Top 10/25/50/100 vBlogs RSS File” idea from Eric Siebert at vSphere-land.com and applied it to the VCDX Link-O-Rama by Derek Seaman.
