Internet links of interest

Hyper-V Guest VM licensing unleashed:-

http://www.altaro.com/hyper-v/virtual-machine-licensing-hyper-v/

VMware Network and storage firmware version gathering:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiaZI_RTKUM#t=214

Good read for Job Pursuit

http://lifehacker.com/improve-your-resume-with-this-simple-formula-recommende-1566107526

http://lifehacker.com/how-to-negotiate-your-salary-1566202988

How to Get a Job at Google

http://lifehacker.com/tie-your-words-to-results-to-avoid-a-buzzword-packed-re-1569598035

http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/outside-voices-careers/2014/04/15/3-ways-to-avoid-resume-buzzword-banality

Virtualization Jobs- Better to learn more than one hypervisor

These days job requirements for the post of Virtualization admin/engineer are very demanding and after Cloud boom, companies have already started looking for cloud Architect/admin/engineers with DevOps experience. Reason! they want to make a move from static hypervisor environment to dynamic cloud environment or you can say, they want reduce the CAPEX and increase OPEX. So here i am sharing one great post from Joe Sanchez's blog

http://www.vminstall.com/how-to-hack-your-resume/

a really recommend reading above post..

Announcement: VCAP-DCA exam Upgraded

Recently VMware Education upgraded the blueprint of VCAP-DCA exam to ESXi ver 5.5. this is a big step towards aggressively  keeping the certification realm challenging and current with production release. So the employer can have certified admin/engineer before deploying ESXi 5.5 and also there is a huge feature difference between 5.0 and 5.5.

You can download the blueprint from below link
http://mylearn.vmware.com/lcms/web/portals/certification/VCAP_Blueprints/VCAP5-DCA-Exam-Blueprint-v3_0.pdf

More update on this can be read on below link
http://sostechblog.com/2014/04/07/vcap5-dca-update-for-vsphere-5-5/

Happy weekend..TGIF

Windows 2008/R2 AD DS Disaster recovery and backup/restore Articles

Sharing Some Good resources on Windows 2008/R2 Active directory domain services Disaster recovery and Backup/Restore.

1) Microsoft Israel Platform Engineering Team Blog series
http://blogs.technet.com/b/isrpfeplat/archive/2011/12/01/disaster-recovery-site-and-active-directory-part-1.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/isrpfeplat/archive/2011/12/04/disaster-recovery-site-and-active-directory-part-2-of-3.aspx
http://blogs.technet.com/b/isrpfeplat/archive/2011/12/11/disaster-recovery-site-and-active-directory-part-3-of-3.aspx

2) AD DS 2008 R2  disaster recovery 101
http://billypattersontech.blogspot.in/2012/10/active-directory-2008-r2-disaster.html

3) Microsoft Canada Platform Engineering Team Blog discussing about common scenarios
http://blogs.technet.com/b/newenglandpfe/archive/2011/05/20/common-scenarios-for-active-directory-related-backup-and-disaster-recovery.aspx

4)Packt pub book Active Directory Disaster Recovery- Article based on win 2003
http://www.packtpub.com/article/how-to-recover-from-an-active-directory-failure

that's all for today

revisiting Ubuntu LTS Beta release

Remembering old days (not much old, just two years back), when i use to wait for Ubuntu distros, for unleashing new features and new additions. Here, i'm sharing my articles link below:-

http://www.opensourceforu.com/2010/11/ubuntu-1010-maverick-review/

http://www.opensourceforu.com/2011/06/ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal-review/

http://www.opensourceforu.com/2011/11/ubuntu-11-10-oneiric-ocelot-review/

So, when i got the news that ubuntu 14.04 LTS Beta 2, i thought of testing it and reviving old days.

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/beta-1/

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/trusty/beta-2/

VCAP5-DCD objective-Capacity Planning

One of the objective in VCAP5-DCD is Capacity planning. this is the most important building block for implementing right virtualization infrastructure.

Below is link to one of the free e-learning course from mylearn.vmware.com

https://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrreg/courses.cfm?ui=www_edu&a=det&id_course=46564

Another great tool for Capacity planning from VMware is available at below link

http://www.vmware.com/products/capacity-planner

Another great blog post about capacity planning from vmfocus.com

http://vmfocus.com/2013/09/01/vsphere-sizing-formula-cpu-ram/

a new thread on one of the forum site "your daily VMware Quiz" for preping VCAP-DCD

http://www.techexams.net/forums/virtualization/98765-your-daily-vmware-quiz.html