Plain Virtualization

 VMware just release a new start of certification targeted on operators, VMware Certified Techical Associate (VCTA). This is not a replacement of the previous VMware Certified Associate (VCA), but rather this is targeted someone with some knowledge of technical experience and running day 2 operations. As stated this is not a prerequisite for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) which is a higher level of certification. You can directly attempt to VCP. Before taking any VMware exam it is always good to check out the exam guide. Check out the VCTA exam guide . Check out the FAQ regarding VCTA and the tracks available. p.s. I am honoured to be part of this new exam development for VCTA DCV with a group of like minded individuals. Adding the number 11th exam to my bucket of contributions. Exam Content Contributors Adrian Lee Aman Arora Carla Gavalakis Frank Buechsel Gabi Faba  Harrison Sherwin Prateek Jain Oyan Johnson Ryan Patel Wee Kiong Tan Lastly, not forgetting the program m...

Announcement for the new Tanzu Editions is now available . In summary, Tanzu Advanced and Enterprise would be for bigger deployment where multiple solutions with VMware services involvement where likely you would have a reference architecture been build and supported by VMware. For the Tanzu Basic and Standard, this is more for the vSphere environment and a replacement of the previous only available to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Add-on for vSphere with Kubernetes which was then renamed to vSphere with Tanzu. Below is extracted from the two PDF document from the solution brief. However, the solution brief didn't point out some conditions which I have marked with "*". Update 06 Oct: The PDF has been updated with "*" What is it you might ask? It is not drastic, but it is possible only with NSX-T and not without. For vSphere Pod service and Register Service, which is embedded in vSphere 7 and part of supervisor cluster, this will require NSX. Network service pro...