vcp-310

Openfiler, Free and Opensource

I am back in the books after being un-prepared for VCP-310 and was needing some iSCSI practice, well i dont have an MSA or HP All-In-One laying around so i improvised. My buddy Raj ( he has a blog on here also) pointed me to a program called Openfiler. I was able to create a VM on VMware Workstation, install Openfiler, and then create an iSCSI target for my ESX Box. Worked like a charm. Since I had never used this product before, I used this Petri Article, “Use OpenFiler as your Free VMware ESX SAN Server”. Read through it all, its a 2 part post.

Just wanted to share my awesome experience of configuring an iSCSI target out of a laptop and virtualization components!

NS

VCP-310 Exam Preparation

Well its been a while, but im finally going to start preparing for my VMware VCP-310 exam. I have been putting it off because of the lack of study material and you guessed it the holidays.

I just ordered and recieved my Exam Cram VCP-310 Study guide, I use these for my MCTS exam track. I figure it should be perfect for the VMware exam. If anyone else is interested the ISBN number is 978-0-7897-3805-9.

You can check out the book at the official Exam Cram site, i suggest ordering from amazon as it is much cheaper (Amazon link Here)

I have also stumbled across some flash card material from Petri Forums, its called Rob Scmidt’s VMware VCP Study Questions and can be access via this link. I am not 100% sure that these questions are for the VCP-310 exam, but changes and updates have been made. Either way these may prove useful.

I am basically just going to read the Exam Cram book a couple times and review a few PDF’s given to me by a co-worker and challenge the exam. I’ll try and upload those PDFs if i remember, if anyone is actually interested let me know and I will get on it sooner then later.

Wish me Luck!

NS