First, a big thank-you to both Elias for taking the time to chat with us, and to Pearson for providing copies of his new ExamCram book for BrownBag goers. Now onto the content:

For those that missed this BrownBag, we talked to Elias Khnaser about his new VCP4 ExamCram book. Here is the video for those who missed it:

VCP BrownBag with Elias Khnaser from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Woot!

Yes, woot! Woot we will be having Elias Khnaser, the author of “VCP4 Exam Cram 2nd Edition” on our next BrownBag. Yeah, this book, right here:

Cool? Ok, well, “We’ve had guests before” you say. “How is this one different?”, you say… well, it’s different in that, I have 5 copies of this book to hand out to folks on the call who ask the best questions.

Details

Date/Time: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 @ 7PM CST (8PM EST)
Register: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/740900032

About Elias Khnaser

Elias Khnaser is an industry expert in the areas of Citrix, application delivery and Virtualization. He has written many books and authored hundreds of articles on the subjects. Elias has designed and deployed some of the largest Citrix implementations in the world including 14000 users with Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. Elias is currently a Managing Consultant with VSD Technologies in Chicago and is continually designing and deploying Citrix, application delivery and virtualization solutions.

Also note, Elias may also be bringing some copies of his VCP CBT as hand outs too… but you must be present to win.

Look forward to seeing y’all there.

Tuesdays Brownbag had a good turn out and also featured the excellent debut of our newest co-host: Guillermo Rodriguez. Guillermo (Gee yair mo) like many of the folks on the call is a budding VCP, having taken his class, studying for his exam and interested in helping others reach the same goal.

Video:

We had a great conversation around storage as it pertains to the VCP. For those that didn’t make it, here is the video (note: You can get the full sized WMV from Vimeo):

VCP Brown Bag #9 – Fragmented Bendy Busses (Storage) from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Links:

As promised during the show, here are the links to the documents and sites covered:

• VCP Blueprint
• vSphere Configuration Maximums
• vSphere “What’s New Storage”
• VMware’s VCP4 Practice test
• Simon Long’s VCP4 Practice test

As always, thanks for playing along. If you have comments or suggestions for show topics, drop us a line in the comments.

There are still some big things on the horizon for the Brown Bag series. One of the first things is the introduction of a new co-host for the VCP Series. Rather than try to introduce him here… We’ll leave it as a mystery during the call.

This go around we’ll be talking about storage, otherwise known as Objective 3 from the VCP 4 Blueprint. Give it a once over and be prepared with your questions (and answers, discussion, etc).

The critical details:

Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/909625585
Date/Time: Jun 8, 2010 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CDT
Topic: Storage

Note: This is one sign up for the next 5 sessions. It also includes international dial-in numbers. The VCDX Brown Bags will start back up again once the new blueprint’s have been released.

As discussed during the show, this is the follow-up post for our conversation with Jon Hall about the new VCAP Certifications.

The Video

Brown Bag #8 – Jon Hall Returns from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Please note: You can download the original WMV from the Vimeo site.

The Links

There were not as many this time as is usual, however there have been more than plenty of follow-up and VCAP posts out in the community. I’ve tried to link in most of those as well:

• New VMware Certification Portal
• VMware VCAP portal
• VCAP DCA
• VCAP DCD
• VCDX4 (Changes)
• Scott Vessey’s Follow-up
• Eric Sloof’s Follow-up
• Duncan Epping’s VCDX 4 Post
• Maish Saidel-Keesing Follow-Up VCDX4 Upgrade Path

If you’ve posted a follow-up and I’ve left you out, let me know in the comments and I’ll get the post updated. Thanks again for joining the call, and thanks to TrainSignal for making this possible.

Due to a change in Jon Hall’s schedule, the VCP Brown Bag for May 18th has been canceled and moved to the 25th. This also means that I had to push the VCDX Brown Bag on the 25th out to June 1st. Those of you registered should have received notifications, those of you not registered for May 25th, you will want to. Big things from Jon Hall & VMware coming.

Here is a break down of the changes:

VCDX Brown Bag

Date/Time: June 1, 2010 @ 2PM CST
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/602230081

VCP Brown Bag – Jon Hall Edition

Date/Time: May 25, 2010 @ 2PM CST
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/486185192

Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.

After the excellent conversation we had last time, we’ve scheduled Jon Hall to come talk VMware Certification again this week. If you were there for the last one, you know you won’t want to miss this. If this is your first time… you will want to make every effort to be there, trust us.

Critical Details:

Date/Time: May 25, 2010; 2P CST
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/486185192

About Jon:

Jon is a Technical Trainer and Technical Certification developer with VMware. He’s our go to for all things certification related at VMware.

The show notes for this are more or less lost at this point. Whoops. That said, the video is online. This one felt more like teaching a class than a discussion around certification, but as awkward as that was for us to handle, I think we did “ok”. You tell me.

VCP Brown Bag #7 – Networking from ProfessionalVMware on Vimeo.

Note, you can download the full sized wmv from Vimeo here.

Thanks as always to Train Signal for making this possible.

I believe we’ve covered networking before, but alas, that was before we started recording these. So… for the sake of completeness we will cover it this time around.

First the critical call details:
Date: May 4, 2010 @2PM CST
Registration: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/875600073

Note: VMware has a Free VCP Voucher offer, check here for details.

This weeks call with Jon Hall was full of interesting folks and even more interesting information about the VMware certification tracks. Note: Due to the content of the video VMware kindly requested I remove it until they make their official announcements in the not too distant future.

I want to thank again everyone for coming and making it an interesting call. Please drop a line in the comments if you have any questions or suggestions for the next one.