VCP 5 exam thoughts

Just passed my VCP 5 this morning. Was pretty tough for me as there were quite a few questions pertaining to vDSwitches, and my experience set is almost entirely Nexus 1000v based, so I"m sure I got those wrong.

Almost no configuration maximum questions (the only one I remember is the maximum LUNs presentable to single host) lots of vswitch scenario, policy questions. Quite a few on memory limits, reservations, and lots of CPU performance troubleshooting. A number of questions on the DCUI and what you can change/modify there, and what items are downloadable off the ESXi host homepage.

All around a tough but fair exam I think. Pretty obvious you couldn't just bootcamp it, you need pretty intimate familiarity with the UIs.

2012 New Year, New Job

So I changed to LongView Systems from CNRL at the beginning of the year, had 6 years at CNRL, thats a long time for me, it was fun, lots of great learning, but in the end it was just too static to keep me interested and engaged.

Joining the cloud practice at Longview should be really interesting. Alread on-site at a client and about to migrate from an f-block (reference architecture for a vblock as a POC) to a couple vblocks.