Fast Forward to January 2012 and Vmware announced deadline for VCP4 and that you must RETAKE training course in order to take the VCP5 exam. That was UNACCEPTABLE. Frankly, in my opinion, Vmware announced the date prematurely but it doesn't matter now that I've cleared both exams. So, I made it a mission to go through the official documents for VCP4 and read the Mastering vSphere 4 book by Scott Lowe, again! I gave the exam early February but failed... I guess, I missed a couple of questions as score was close. I went back to studying and gave the test again and this time I was successful. That was such a confidence booster that I scheduled the VCP5 exam 8 days after the VCP4 and I am glad I passed it the first time. I guess taking a beating and failing an exam a couple of times makes you good at stuff you are suppose to know for the exam?

Tips for passing

• Study the Official VMware Manuals documents
  Now that VCP4 is gone, VCP5 documentation is much better and organized (it could be better though) so just go through each one of those a couple of times and there is no way you can fail (provided that you remember important details from those documents).
• Pay attention to the "Note: or bullets" in the official documents. That stuff is important. I like to write stuff down on paper if I feel its important, helps me remember otherwise its hard to recall.
• I have a great virtualization lab at home and I used it every step of the way! I retired my existing lab servers and got a couple of great Dell PowerEdge 1950 IIIs. I will write more about that later this week or next. In addition to home lab, I work with this stuff at work as well so that is always helpful with some real world scenarios but every environment has its own real world as compared to the real world that Vmware imagines in the exam.
• I bought the Mastering vSphere 4 and Mastering vSphere 5 books by Scott Lowe. GREAT Books. Go through them at least ONCE ( i read the version 4 twice and 5 just once). Scott provides a lot of ideas and information so even if you fail (hope not) you still get away with great info and ideas.
• Another book which I thought was very useful but extremely technical was the VMware vSphere 4.1 HA and DRS Technical deepdive by Duncan Epping and Frank Denneman - Its a good book if you feel like knowing how HA and DRS work from a very technical point of view. I have and read that as well, just once though.
• I used Simon Long's notes/practice exam as well as Forbes Guthrie's notes on vsphere 4 and vsphere 5. Thanks guys!
• I am not a big fan of video based training, it doesn't help me but if you are then David Davis/TrainSignal make some good training videos on Vmware vSphere products. I must have watched whatever they have available for free thats about it.
• The Vmware mock exam is helpful for some but I think its a joke. If you want to spend hour or so thats okay but I wouldn't waste too much time on it. The mock exam doesn't have questions as close to the real exam as possible, the answer explanation are poor or non existent.. its just poor over all.
• READ each question on the exam a couple of times before answering it. It becomes must clearer. If there is time, try to break it up in parts...

That is it from me. I am glad to be VCP4 and VCP5 and wish you good luck if you plan on taking your exam soon. If you have any tips, questions or comments, please share with me or post in our Virtualization Community Forums.

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“Cloudify is the industry’s first cloud application platform designed to enable enterprises and ISVs to take even their most mission-critical applications to any cloud, without any cloud vendor lock-in,” said Adi Paz, EVP Marketing and Business Development at GigaSpaces. “Our driving principle in developing Cloudify was enabling you to deploy any app, to any cloud, your way. That means that you can manage your cloud adoption at your own pace, maintain full control of your apps, ensure business continuity, and minimize diversion of development resources in the process.”

Product Information & Features

• Built-In Recipes: Recipes are blueprints that tell Cloudify all the details needed to run an application – which middleware services to run, what the dependencies are between the services, how to install the services, where to find the application and service binaries, when to spawn more instances or terminate existing ones, and even how to monitor each of the services. Recipes are the mechanism that enables deployment of any middleware stack, using any data store (relational or non-relational), to any cloud. Cloudify is offering new built-in recipes, and more are slated for release next quarter.
• Many PaaS frameworks target new applications, and constrain the development to vendor-specific models and configurations. Cloudify recipes are designed to cope with almost any operational or engineering need, and are very intuitive and easy to extend and customize. Cloudify recipes include JBoss, Cassandra, MongoDB, Tomcat, MySQL and many more.
• New Cloudify Editions: Cloudify now comes in several editions, beginning with a free edition that enables full commercial use, with an easy upgrade path to advanced editions that include premium features and commercial-grade support. This offering enables organizations to move to the cloud at their own pace without incurring up-front costs.
• Multi-Cloud Support: Cloudify is the only truly independent cloud application platform, enabling business organizations to choose which infrastructure they want to work with, whether private cloud, public cloud, or a hybrid deployment, and even non-virtualized environments – thereby avoiding vendor lock-in. The Cloudify Open Cloud Driver provides a plug-in that uses and extends the open-source JClouds framework. It also includes cloud platform integration specifications, and provides full access to the underlying infrastructure resources such as language choice and monitoring tools.
• New Cloudify Community: The new Cloudify Community will be launched on March 1, with user forums, guides, add-ons, recipes and much more.
• Easy-Adoption Pricing: The new Cloudify pricing scheme is based on a pay-as-you-go model. The Cloudify Free Edition enables organizations to begin deploying mission-critical applications to the public or private cloud with full control and minimal price barriers. The Standard, Professional, and Premium editions offer increasing support and monitoring capabilities, with pricing based on the number of servers in use, ensuring that customers remain at the pricing level reflected by actual use and organizational needs.

“Cloudify was developed based on GigaSpaces’ extensive experience in virtualization and delivering application platforms for large-scale, mission-critical applications, and honed through our collaborations with technology leaders in the Cloud space, such as Microsoft Windows Azure, Citrix, Openstack, CA, and others, with some exciting new announcements coming soon,” says Paz. “We are proud to have been recognized as leaders in the Cloud technology space by top industry analysts, and in major industry arenas such as VentureBeat’s CloudBeat showdown 2011, where we were selected as a top-ten disruptive technology.”

Availability and Download Information
The GigaSpaces Cloudify GA release will be unveiled at Cloud Connect 2012

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"Partnering with Pivot3 adds a compelling offering into our existing VMware-based line-card by providing us with the opportunity to deliver simple and affordable desktop modernization to our mid-market VMware View solution providers,” said Chuck Bartlett, Vice President and General Manager of Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) at Tech Data Corporation. “Our View solution providers will be able to quickly deploy a virtual desktop infrastructure at an attractive price point to both the reseller and the customer.”

"The strength of Tech Data’s partner network and their focus on serving the desktop virtualization mid-market, such as state, local government and education, make them a perfect partner to distribute Pivot3 VDI solutions,” said, Olivier Thierry, CMO of Pivot3. “The mid-market has been clamoring for a View appliance-based solution that has enterprise class features and yet is simple, scalable and affordable.”

TSK a UK based company that delivers high performance workplaces for corporate organizations recently implemented the Pivot3 vSTAC VDI product. Mark Eades, IT manager at TSK commented, "We were very impressed with how well the Pivot3 vSTAC VDI installation went, making our VMware View 5.0 deployment both simple and affordable. It eliminated the complexities and skill levels normally imposed.”

In support of the this partnership, Pivot3 recently announced its VDI Channel Ready program consisting of many unique elements designed to maximize lead opportunity and qualification for Tech Data resellers and solution providers. Beyond the traditional online resources, there are unique online tools for VDI self-configuration and ROI analysis. Additionally, prospects can “Test Drive” a live, hosted 300 to 400 desktop scenario complete with workload simulation, login storms, scale-out of desktops and performance reporting. The Channel Ready program is also designed to eliminate channel conflict and enhance sell-though with all VMware and Microsoft license revenues flowing to the resellers. In addition, deal registration is available to partners.

Product Availability and Pricing
The Pivot3 vSTAC VDI is available now and has already garnered the interest of several leading enterprises across various industries, including healthcare, education, government and financial services. Customer pricing starts at $350 per desktop.

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Composite 6.1 advances the company’s industry-leading query optimization algorithms and techniques and Composite’s performance leadership with improved caching performance, expanded caching targets, data ship join for Teradata, and Hadoop MapReduce connectivity. The new release also provides significant improvements to the data services development environment with an enhanced data services editor and new publishing options for Representational State Transfer (REST) and Open Data Protocol (OData) data services.

Composite 6.1 is the result of hundreds of man-years of development and proven at the world’s largest and most complex data virtualization implementations such as Pfizer, NYSE sand Putnam Investments. By automating numerous development activities and simplifying others, Composite enables users across a range of skill levels, to rapidly deliver new data virtualization solutions.

“Many of today’s BI architectures are too complex and inflexible and are encumbered with too many data layers resulting in data that is often not up-to-date,” said Rick F. van der Lans, managing director of R20/Consultancy B.V., a leading authority on data virtualization and the author of the upcoming book “Data Virtualization in Business Intelligence Architectures: Revolutionizing Data Integration for Data Warehouses.” “Data virtualization platforms—such as Composite 6.1—enable more timely and cost-effective integration with disparate operational systems enabling more effective analytics and reporting. Data Virtualization will have a serious impact on data warehousing, data governance, and master data management sooner rather than later.”

IEEE Using Composite to Meet Conference Management System Needs

As the premier technology professional organization and host to over one thousand conferences in over seventy countries annually, the IEEE leverages Composite to meet their diverse, high volume conference management system needs. “Composite really out did themselves with enhancements to its data services editor and new publishing options,” said Boby Thomas, Senior Solutions Developer of IEEE. “We look forward to taking advantage of the productivity gains offered by the 6.1 release.”

New Performance, Data Services Features

Composite 6.1 contains significant new performance and data services features, including:

• Improved Cache Loading Performance: Improves the speed of cache loads and refreshes using native cache loading and parallel cache loading techniques. This enables organizations to cache more data, more often and flexibly improve the timeliness of information delivery.
• Expanded Caching Targets: Greater caching target flexibility enables developers and administrators to optimize both query performance and operating costs. Composite 6.1 adds SQL Server 2008 and Netezza 6.0 as caching targets to a list already including IBM DB2 v8; Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005; MySQL 4.1, 5.0; Netezza 5.0; Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g; Sybase 12.5; Teradata V12.
• Hadoop MapReduce Connectivity: Enables MapReduce programs and developers to easily query Composite as a data source, on-demand with high performance. Allows enterprises to extend MapReduce analyses beyond Hadoop stores to include diverse enterprise data managed by Composite.
• Enhanced Data Services Editor: All-in-one relational and data services development environment simplifies development of data services and/or mixed relational and data service objects enabling high productivity development of data services. This accelerates time-to-solution for new data services and expands the development community to a wider set of users.

“Greater demand and market acceptance for data virtualization means more high performance use cases and the pressing need to ‘skill up’ more developers. We address both of those challenges in 6.1,” said Robert Eve, executive vice president of Marketing with Composite Software and co-author of the recently published book “Data Virtualization: Going Beyond Traditional Data Integration to Achieve Business Agility.” “Composite Software provides data virtualization’s highest development productivity and ease-of-use. By automating numerous development activities and simplifying others, Composite enables users across a range of skill levels, to rapidly deliver new data virtualization solutions,” Eve said.

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The VDI-IOmark is a storage-centric benchmark that measures storage performance metrics with VDI workloads. By using I/O replay, the benchmark measures the I/O capabilities of storage systems under actual workloads, without costly server and application setup. VDI-IOmark recreates typical usage, including boot storms and steady state operations.

“We are pleased that Hitachi Data Systems is the first to announce their VDI-IOmark performance results,” said Russ Fellows, senior partner, Evaluator Group. “IT users can be confident that VDI-IOmark results provide an accurate and fair method for comparing storage systems that support VDI workloads. With these results, Hitachi Data Systems is demonstrating its leadership position in the VDI market by highlighting not only the high performance of Hitachi NAS Platform for VDI workloads, but also the excellent price/performance levels achieved. The tested configuration demonstrates the ability to support more than 1,500 standard VDI workers with a single, midrange Hitachi NAS controller. Scaling Hitachi NAS Platform up to 8 nodes offers further possibilities for supporting significantly larger and more I/O intensive VDI workloads.”

“Selecting the right storage architecture is essential to virtualized environments, especially as those environments evolve to include thousands of virtual machines, virtual desktops and business critical applications,” said Ravi Chalaka, vice president, Product and Solutions Marketing, Hitachi Data Systems. “Hitachi NAS Platform allows customers to gain cost-effective, scalable capacity and performance benefits through virtualization across server, storage and desktop infrastructures. This enables greater efficiencies across the data center, and allows more effective deployment and management of virtual IT environments.”

Hitachi NAS Platform for VDI Environments: VDI-IOmark Benchmark Highlights

Storage plays an important role in VDI deployments, and is often a determining factor for the performance, scalability and efficiency of the overall system. VDI deployments require a combination of features from storage designated to augment and enhance the unique VDI lifecycle and workloads encountered. Hitachi NAS Platform delivers the essential storage capabilities required for organizations looking to VDI for a centralized desktop application management solution that ensures data security while reducing IT administration costs generated from the explosion of personal productivity devices. The exceptional Hitachi NAS Platform VDI-IOmark results were achieved through scalable, high-performance capabilities that easily manage I/O storms while imposing no additional management overhead.

Customers benefit from the following features:

• More Virtual Desktops: The VDI-IOmark benchmark results indicate that Hitachi NAS Platform can support an industry leading 1,526 standard VDI workers and 768 knowledge VDI workers.
• Performance Efficiency: All data is dynamically and transparently cached, and array-based writable clones support solid-state disk (SSD) and spinning media for high-performance and storage efficiency.
• Space Saving Clones: BlueArc® JetClone delivers unlimited, space saving, file-level, writable clones allowing the desktop administrator to instantly clone VDI instances without impacting the I/O of the virtual machine or increasing storage capacity. BlueArc JetClone has storage-based clones coupled with 96GB read/write storage cache, which virtually eliminates the impact to back-end disk subsystems experienced during boot storms and login operations.
• Large File System Size: BlueArc SiliconFS 256TB file system for Hitachi NAS Platform is many times larger than other traditional NAS systems and aids in reducing the complexity of managing storage overhead providing administrators with virtually unlimited hosts per physical and virtual file server. Dedicating a virtual volume to a single host or group provides the administrator with fine-grained control over performance priorities and capacity allocation.
• Simplified Management: BlueArc JetCenter integrates with VMware vCenter and enables instantaneous or policy-based snapshots that may be used as recovery points allowing VDI instances to be restored within minutes. The number of snapshots supported is important and Hitachi NAS Platform provides virtually unlimited snapshots – approximately four times more than competing systems. Support of this software will be extended to the full Hitachi NAS Platform in the second quarter of calendar year 2012.

About VDI-IOmark

The VDI-IOmark organization was founded to develop fair and accurate methods for comparing vendor's storage products under various real-world workloads. The VDI-IOmark benchmark was specifically designed to test storage systems running VDI desktops and applications; enabling IT users to quickly and accurately characterize a storage system's performance while supporting a VDI workload.

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Many IT organizations are unaware that the major expense of VDI is not software or server hardware, but storage. As much as 80% of the cost of implementing a conventional VDI environment is for the storage infrastructure needed to support implementations that meet user expectations. Conventional SAN/NAS storage systems can only deliver the data throughput (IOPS) needed to support VDI by increasing the number of storage drives and controllers well beyond that needed to deliver the required disk space. As virtual desktop IO traffic is significantly more than physical desktops, storage can often be undersized for VDI installations leading to performance and budget issues, and projects stalling when these deployments move from pilot phase to production.

As part of this new alliance, Centrix Software and Atlantis Computing will work together to help organizations optimize the delivery of virtual desktops, providing solutions that ensure storage infrastructure costs are minimized and high performance levels are achieved when scaling VDI.

• With Centrix WorkSpace iQ, an analytics solution for end-user computing environments, Centrix Software provides unprecedented and unique levels of visibility on IOPS activity and detailed analysis on the impact of user session concurrency on a virtual desktop infrastructure. The information it delivers enables accurate sizing of storage architecture based on platform usage and service consumption patterns as well as continuous analysis of the VDI environment.
• Atlantis Computing enables organizations to scale their VDI without having to invest in unnecessary storage resources. Its Atlantis ILIO solution is designed specifically for VDI workloads and as a result, reduces the amount of traffic going to storage by up to 90 percent and decreases the storage capacity required by up to 99 percent. The impact is a dramatic reduction in the cost of the virtual desktop and a large boost in desktop performance.

“To gain the best performance and value from VDI, organizations have to be able to track the impact of service usage and consumption patterns on the supporting infrastructure. Greater visibility on IOPS is essential if storage is to be sized and managed correctly,” said Paul Burke, director of product management at Centrix Software. “By working closely with Atlantis Computing, we are pleased to be adding value to its pioneering work around storage optimization as we help organizations accelerate the delivery of successful virtual desktops projects.”

“Centrix WorkSpace iQ is unique in its ability to track IOPS loads at a granular level including boot sessions, providing valuable intelligence that can be used for defining the impact of VDI deployments on the storage architecture and identifying where optimization is needed to curtail costs,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, chief executive officer of Atlantis Computing. “Our alliance with Centrix Software builds on our quest to help organizations eliminate the storage challenge around VDI and benefit in faster time from their virtualization investments.”

Centrix Software and Atlantis Computing plan to announce the availability of reference materials and resources as part of the alliance partnership.

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Kaspersky Security for Virtualization is delivered as a virtual security appliance that integrates with VMware vShield™ Endpoint to provide agent-less, anti-malware security based upon Kaspersky Lab’s advanced anti-malware engine. Developed from the same code-base as Kaspersky Lab’s award-winning line of endpoint security products, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization avoids the needless complexity and resource-drain associated with security programs that typically “bolt-on” acquired technology for virtual environments leaving customers with a management nightmare. With Kaspersky Lab, customers have a single, unified management platform for their virtual, physical and mobile environments.

In addition to plug-and-play compatibility with Kaspersky Lab’s own endpoint security offerings, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization seamlessly integrates with VMware vShield™ Endpoint Security, providing straightforward protection for virtual data centers, virtualized servers and desktops. Using VMware vShield™ Endpoint, the centrally managed Kaspersky Security for Virtualization automatically detects every virtual machine on the network, delivering files to the Kaspersky Lab client for real-time anti-malware scans. This integration with VMware vCenter™ means straightforward deployment, automatic protection of new virtual machines, mapping of both logical and physical computing structures, and automatic security updates, all managed by “a single pane of glass,” the Kaspersky Security Center administration console, and delivering increased consolidation ratios for customers.

The Kaspersky Lab Benefit - Unified Management of Virtual, Physical and Mobile Security
One of the greatest advantages of virtualization – IT resource efficiency – can suffer from sub-par security deployments, which apply physical security rules to virtual machines. By integrating with VMware vShield™ Endpoint, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization operates its anti-malware functions on a centralized virtual appliance, eliminating the need for duplicated resources on each virtual machine. By freeing up virtual machine resources, Kaspersky Security for Virtualization can optimize performance, reduce hardware costs and energy consumption, and provide detailed logging of security tasks to satisfy compliance auditing requirements.

Additionally, businesses have a mix of virtual, mobile and physical endpoints, but IT administrators don’t want to manage multiple security programs from multiple consoles. Kaspersky Security for Virtualization doesn’t force customers to create silos responsible for securing each platform. Instead, it feeds data directly to the Kaspersky Security Center. Kaspersky Lab’s agent-based security applications are also “virtualization-aware,” letting customers decide for themselves what method for securing each virtual machine best meets their security needs. IT administrators can also provide customized security policies to selected virtual machine groups, just as easily as with physical machines. This unified management of all computing environments provides an unmatched mix of straightforward administration combined with next-generation protection.

When this streamlined virtualization manager is combined with Kaspersky Lab’s award-winning anti-malware engine, the difference is immediately apparent. Our industry-leading anti-malware engine provides superior detection rates and heuristic analysis to detect and block even the most sophisticated polymorphic malware. Moreover, by having Kaspersky Security for Virtualization deployed on a virtualized host appliance, virtual machines are all protected by the same centralized malware database which is constantly updated as new threats emerge. This model ensures all virtual machines receive the same level of protection, regardless of when the machines were created, or if they have been offline for extended periods of time. There are no “Instant-On” gaps for virtual machines that haven’t been used for extended periods of time and no “AV Storms” that hog network resources while updating virtual machines.

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The podcast on the “Future of the Cloud” is being released in conjunction with the Cloud Connect 2012 conference in Santa Clara, CA, February 14-15th.

The cloud computing experts who participated in the podcast included:

• Nati Shalom, CTO and Founder of GigaSpaces Technologies – GigaSpaces is a pioneer of a new generation of application virtualization platforms and a leading provider of end-to-end scaling solutions for distributed, mission-critical application environments, and cloud enabling technologies.
• Sharon Wagner, CEO and Co-Founder of Cloudyn – Cloudyn’s powerful cloud cost efficiency solution offers organizations clarity of cloud costs, actionable recommendations for cost savings and maximized utilization of resources in a dynamic cloud environment.
• Paul Campaniello, Vice President of Global Marketing for ScaleBase – ScaleBase dynamically scales MySQL databases delivering real time elasticity, increasing availability and improving capacity planning, without requiring any changes to the existing infrastructure.

To hear the insights from this seasoned group of cloud computing experts, download and listen to the podcast at: http://www.rainierco.com/RainierCloudPodcast.wav.

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Installation Completed
The Wizard was interrupted before Vmware vCenter Server could be Completely installed.

Please Refer to the log files vim-vcs-msi.log under the c:\users\username\AppData\Local\Temp\2\ or its subfolders. Please try again after you have resolved the problems.

And the vim-vcs-msi.log displays a lot of information, including this:

VM_StartTomcatImmediate returned actual error code 1603

You can try deleting the temporary install folder under the Temp directory but what fixed the issue for me was that the username and password which vCenter services were using to start was the LOCAL account rather than the domain account. So, in your windows server, open Administrative Tools > Services and go to:

• VMware VirtualCenter Server
• VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices

Hit the LOG ON tab for each service mentioned above and change the username that its using to a proper domain account. After making the changes, you should be able to start the vCenter 5 services and connect to it using the vSphere client.

The above fix worked for my lab environment which maybe different from yours. Please backup your vcenter database, etc. before making any changes or upgrading. If you have any questions or comments be sure to post them in our Virtualization Support Forums!

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To thrive in the cloud market, stakeholders must establish and solidify their positions as value-adding players, or else lose to new entrants who may then reap the greatest benefits. For operators to win in the cloud marketplace, they must determine where in this new ecosystem they can play most successfully.

Robust partner agreements are win-win for all entities in the cloud ecosystem. They believe that given the early days of Mobile cloud computing, there are opportunities for significant partnerships in this arena.
They believe that mobile cloud service revenues will reach $45 billion in 2016 at a CARG of 55.18% from 2011. The greatest mobile cloud revenue contributions will come from mobile cloud applications. This is primarily due to increasing smartphone penetration, growth of 3G network coverage across the globe and deployment of LTE services.

By 2014, technology enhancements such as BONDI, OneAPI and HTML5 will further encourage the development of cloud based mobile applications. They believe that open standards will make it easier for developers to build cloud based applications that can be used across a variety of smartphones.

Issues with mobile cloud security, privacy, feasibility and accessibility remain a major concern for both the customers and the enterprises. However with complex and secure products now available on the market, many enterprises are jumping into the mobile cloud bandwagon.

We summarize all the latest developments in mobile cloud computing market and provide a detailed vendor analysis. We discuss key mobile cloud scenarios, subtle differences between hosting and cloud business models; discuss the cloud value chain, life cycle analysis, cloud partnerships, and offer recommendations to the key stakeholders in the market. Our aim is provide our customers with up-to-date statistics and forecasts that can be used to devise emergent cloud strategies.

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