Book on VMWare

[Dudester70]

I want to become a VCP, and need to for my job as well.

Can anyone reccomend some books or materials to assist in this?

Dudester70

 

[itsp1965]

The VMWare website has the available documentation for all of their products. The best thing to do is to get access to the product and work with it (free versions of VMware Server are available)
Also there are many websites that provide plenty of info (searchvirtualization.com,

http://www.dbacc.com,

etc)

 

[Dudester70]

itsp1965, Thanks for the reply.
I have the product already, and it is running in my companies infrastructure. I also have it running in a lab environment, and understand it on a fundamental and somewhat technical vantage pointe, but I know that is not going to be enough to get me certified. That being said, any other suggestions?

 

[itsp1965]

Well if you're not going to be going on a course (recommended) you can obtain some good materials from Vmworld conferences;

http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/vmworld/

 

[k3n85]

I don't know about the VCP, but the book we are using is "VMware ESX Server: Advanced Technical Design Guide"
Authors: Ron Oglesby & Scott Herold
ISBN: 0-9711510-6-7

We find it to be helpful for first time people and great suggestions throughout. Makes many topics easy to understand.

 

[jtb]

Can't get certified VCP without an official VMware course... They're very strict about that... Roughly $3000 for 4-5 days...

JTB
Have Certs, Will Travel
"A knight without armour in a [cyber] land."