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Doespike wrote:

Bradstard wrote:Matt, we need pics!

This..

bah... looks like every other CW.....

itrsteez wrote:

Dave-ROR wrote:

itrsteez wrote:

coolhandluke wrote:Steve- How did the test go?

Just missed it.. So it went bad that I didn't make it but I'd say I was no more than 3 questions off. 75% of it was "pick two" or "pick three" so that was adding to the brutalness of it. I've never failed a cert exam before but I'm okay with it being that one. Most of the questions were strictly trivial and not conceptual, like asking what options would be within this menu so it is definitely testing. I've heard from many people that 10-15% of the questions are configuration maximums, so I've made sure i've had those numbers concreted in upstairs for the past few weeks and they didn't ask a single one......fuckers, haha.

As intended I was able to identify the areas where I need to study further, while I fully understand ESX, networking, storage, vcenter (the real important stuff) etc it's all of the little items that I don't use that got me (host profiles, update manager, the new data recovery manager (we use VCB still, etc..)) I'm very confident that I'll get it next time.

Do you guys use Enterprise PLus? I'm sure the VCP testing material only covers the supported Host Profile, etc stuff with Enterprise Plus.. if you use ESXi you can work around it though..

We only use ESX (well licensed anyways, have some ESXi stuff for test/dev but it's all standalone boxes with local storage) and only have Enterprise licensing so I'd likely fail on that stuff too.. dist switches are easy, hell at least it's easy to set MTU with a dvswitch compared to a normal vswitch.. why they couldn't add that to the normal vswitch I have no idea.. I so rarely do that I have to actually think when adding a host to remember each step.

I wonder if they changed that in 4.1? I need to upgrade my dev cluster and see.. also see if it fixes a bug with vcenter performance monitoring that I'm having.. which has broke completely.. vmware hasn't been able to fix it yet nor has google searches.. haven't cared since it's so underutilized at the moment but need to fix it.

Yeah we are on Ent Plus, I'm actually in the middle of taking all of our old ESX4 stuff to ESXi 4.1. They aren't going to hit dvSwitches too hard, the only concepts that they drill is that it's a vSwitch that is stored locally on all hosts and that ingress and egress traffic can be shaped on dvSwitches only. But the rest is going to be normal virtual networking concepts, make sure you have all of your failover and teaming policies and security modes.

I'm actually not bummed out on "failing" as I couldn't of been any more than 3 questions off, and with 75% of the material being "pick two" or "pick three". I just need to brush up on the non-essential parts of vSphere that I don't personally use on a daily basis. So many of the questions were not conceptual but yet trival, asking which 3 items you'd see in such and such menu is super trivial in my eyes. It does enforce knowledge of all items offered so I do understand that's why the way it is.

Still pissed I didn't get a single config maximum/partition sizing question though.

Dave-ROR wrote:

itrsteez wrote:

Dave-ROR wrote:

itrsteez wrote:

coolhandluke wrote:Steve- How did the test go?

Just missed it.. So it went bad that I didn't make it but I'd say I was no more than 3 questions off. 75% of it was "pick two" or "pick three" so that was adding to the brutalness of it. I've never failed a cert exam before but I'm okay with it being that one. Most of the questions were strictly trivial and not conceptual, like asking what options would be within this menu so it is definitely testing. I've heard from many people that 10-15% of the questions are configuration maximums, so I've made sure i've had those numbers concreted in upstairs for the past few weeks and they didn't ask a single one......fuckers, haha.

As intended I was able to identify the areas where I need to study further, while I fully understand ESX, networking, storage, vcenter (the real important stuff) etc it's all of the little items that I don't use that got me (host profiles, update manager, the new data recovery manager (we use VCB still, etc..)) I'm very confident that I'll get it next time.

Do you guys use Enterprise PLus? I'm sure the VCP testing material only covers the supported Host Profile, etc stuff with Enterprise Plus.. if you use ESXi you can work around it though..

We only use ESX (well licensed anyways, have some ESXi stuff for test/dev but it's all standalone boxes with local storage) and only have Enterprise licensing so I'd likely fail on that stuff too.. dist switches are easy, hell at least it's easy to set MTU with a dvswitch compared to a normal vswitch.. why they couldn't add that to the normal vswitch I have no idea.. I so rarely do that I have to actually think when adding a host to remember each step.

I wonder if they changed that in 4.1? I need to upgrade my dev cluster and see.. also see if it fixes a bug with vcenter performance monitoring that I'm having.. which has broke completely.. vmware hasn't been able to fix it yet nor has google searches.. haven't cared since it's so underutilized at the moment but need to fix it.

Yeah we are on Ent Plus, I'm actually in the middle of taking all of our old ESX4 stuff to ESXi 4.1. They aren't going to hit dvSwitches too hard, the only concepts that they drill is that it's a vSwitch that is stored locally on all hosts and that ingress and egress traffic can be shaped on dvSwitches only. But the rest is going to be normal virtual networking concepts, make sure you have all of your failover and teaming policies and security modes.

I'm actually not bummed out on "failing" as I couldn't of been any more than 3 questions off, and with 75% of the material being "pick two" or "pick three". I just need to brush up on the non-essential parts of vSphere that I don't personally use on a daily basis. So many of the questions were not conceptual but yet trival, asking which 3 items you'd see in such and such menu is super trivial in my eyes. It does enforce knowledge of all items offered so I do understand that's why the way it is.

Still pissed I didn't get a single config maximum/partition sizing question though.

How's the migration going? I understand why they are dumping ESX after 4.1 but I'm still not convinced that it's the best idea in the world lol

I don't know why I have a problem with it as I don't use ANY tools at this point that need the service console. Just that whole "change" thing always annoys me I guess

I thought about moving our dev cluster to ESXi but then figured I'd just do ESX 4.1 for now..

Then again, saving that pnic from SC duties could let me better configure VMotion and FT logging.. at least it would allow a dedicated pnic for it..

Dave-ROR wrote:Sad that my dent is gone though

Dave_B wrote:Yeah, I see that now too. Damn, took parts? WTF??? It's not a Honda.

Dave-ROR wrote:

Dave_B wrote:Yeah, I see that now too. Damn, took parts? WTF??? It's not a Honda.

running board is in the bed...

looks like they did some off roading, broke the board and threw it in the bed for some reason?

itr #1334 wrote:

Dave-ROR wrote:

Dave_B wrote:Yeah, I see that now too. Damn, took parts? WTF??? It's not a Honda.

running board is in the bed...

looks like they did some off roading, broke the board and threw it in the bed for some reason?

That is odd. Where was the truck found? thieves

Bradstard wrote:They stole the keys to my trailer, my drop hitch and ball, and my TomTom.

Dave_B wrote:Damnit!

Cops say they had any leads, or following up on anything?