vSphere 6 Launch Event

After a long hiatus from blogging, i thought covering this event is the right thing to do for a comeback. But delayed a little and their are tons of blog posts covering these details.

So i just wanted to share my favorite posts from blogosphere.

1) Wahl Networks- certification changes also introduced with vSphere 6
http://wahlnetwork.com/2015/02/03/vsphere-6-certs/

2)VCDX56 - Virtual vCenter Appliance improvements - not a back bencher now
http://vcdx56.com/2015/02/04/vsphere-6-0-blog-vcenter-server-appliance-vcsa/


3) Vsphere-Land - Link-o-Rama- Always my favorite.
http://vsphere-land.com/news/vsphere-6-0-link-o-rama.html

Always handy to keep Link-o-rama URL for all your queries.

There are couple of detailed posts from Virtualization veterans-

1) Yellow-Bricks- http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2015/02/05/new-vmotion-vsphere-6-0/

2)Cormachogan - Detailed NFS 4.1 feature in vSphere 6
http://cormachogan.com/2015/02/04/vsphere-6-0-storage-features-part-1-nfs-v4-1/

Thanks..Keep Sharing

Linux Interview Questions without answers

1)One of the great MCQ Linux Questions
http://www.sanfoundry.com/technical-interview-questions/

2)GitHub repo of linux questions
https://github.com/chassing/linux-sysadmin-interview-questions

3)SAN related MCQ
http://www.sanfoundry.com/san-storage-mcqs-freshers-experienced/

Job Search Article on Lifehacker-
http://lifehacker.com/how-can-i-look-for-a-new-job-when-my-company-is-checkin-1568775902

Common Job interview mistakes-
http://www.realsimple.com/work-life/life-strategies/job-career/common-interview-mistakes-00100000122289/index.html

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