The infamous, dreaded “don’t let your VCP lapse” email hit my inbox back in July 2017, reminding me that I had until January 2018 to renew my certification. There are 3 ways to avoid expiration according to current VMware recertification…
My VMware VCP6-DCV Delta Exam Experience
Having obtained my VCP5-DCV 510 Certification in February 2014, due to VMware’s recertification policy, I had time until February 2016 to upgrade to VCP6-DCV via the Delta Exam (2V0-621D). I chose January since I knew that I would have had…
“Battle Cards” mostly suck, but they’re here to stay
As a presales, I often come across (and/or get asked for) product comparisons, often known as “battle cards“. Especially if you work in IT, chances are you’ve seen many of these things. I did several documents like this myself and…
How to mount Veeam B&R’s vPower NFS share
As you may probably know, Veeam Backup & Replication provides the Instant VM Recovery feature, that allows you to run one or more VMs directly from the backup file (which is compressed and deduplicated), without having to extract the data and…
My VMware VCP5-DCV 510 Exam Experience
A couple of days ago I passed the VMware VCP5-DCV exam (version 510, for vSphere 5.1), and I’d like to quickly share my impressions. In a nutshell, I think it is a fairly tough exam. The Exam Good…