Plain Virtualization

Here I like congrats all new vExpert 2015 with the second half results announced 1 week before VMworld 2015.  Results can be viewed here . If you are going to VMWorld this year, remember to grab all the freebies for vExpert as well as the meetup just for vExpert. If you miss the application, look out for the application for vExpert 2016 likely end of this year.

With the new year of 2015, VMware education also did some amendments to their certification roadmap to adapt to the industry requirements.  However there isn't a big change but one major one I see is the VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP) has been renamed to VMware Certified Implementation Expert (VCIX).  You can view more details here .  The roadmap diagram is as below: You can also find the more updated charts for version 5 and version 6 here . In fact I was seeing this coming since under Network Virtualization track it has already started with VCIX. Although VCIX6-NV started with only an administration exam, I believe all tracks will contain both design and administration exam as mentioned under VCIX section. The other change would be under the Cloud Management & Automation track where there are two different VMware Certified Associate (VCA) but only one VMware Certified Professional (VCP) track.  This will be focused on VMware vRealize A...