In episode five of The VCDX Podcast, I’ll be chatting to my special guest about the VCDX Prep Slack Team, finding out what it is and how you can use it to help yourself or others prepare for their VCDX.
News & Updates
There will be a VCDX Workshop at the Indianapolis VMUG on Tuesday, July 16th. Register here for the Indy VMUG
Interview Notes & Links
Common VCDX Mistakes
- There are too many constraints in some VCDX designs, which limits the panelist’s ability to score the candidate in certain areas.
- Provided by VCDX panelist Paul McSharry
Q&A
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In episode four of The VCDX Podcast, we recognize the newly crowned VCDX’s and I’ll be chatting to my special guest about their VCDX defense experience. What things went well, and what didn’t go so well.
News & Updates
Congratulations to the 5 new VCDX’s:
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#279 – Dmitri Tanurkov (NV)
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#280 – Veronica Sherin David (NV)
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#281 – Chris Porter (DCV)
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#282 – Syed Adeel Qamar (NV)
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#283 – Fouad EL Akkad (DCV)
And a special congratulations to Jeffrey Kusters #252 – who got his second VCDX (NV). You can see the full list of VCDX’s on the VCDX Directory
There will be a VCDX Workshop at the Indianapolis VMUG on July 16th. Register for the Indy VMUG
Interview Notes & Links
- This week’s special guest is Chris Porter
- Toggl – Time tracking software Chris used in his defense prep
Q&A
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In episode three of The VCDX Podcast, we focus our attention towards preparing for the VCDX defense. How can we find ways to make time in both our busy work and personal lives and then make the most of that limited time we have?
Interview Notes & Links
Common VCDX Mistakes Links
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In episode two, we focus mostly on the VCDX Workshop. What the VCDX Workshop is, who should attend and how they can benefit.
News & Updates Links
Interview Notes & Links
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Welcome to the first ever episode of the VCDX Podcast.
Episode Summary
In today’s episode;
- I explain a little about the VCDX Podcast and why it decided to create it.
- A quick news update about an online VCDX Workshop that should not be missed! – Signup link here: https://upto.com/e/94V4O
- I am joined by a special guest, me! Simon Long (VCDX #105).
- In the Q&A section, I ask a common question regarding the VCDX defense presentation.
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Continuing on with my Common VCDX Mistakes posts I have another one for you. However, This is more an overall piece of advice.
Don’t Believe Everything You Read
Over the years I’ve seen many VCDX Defense related blog posts and tweets recommending/stating things that maybe aren’t completely accurate. Then in the coming months, we start to see these inaccurate recommendations appear in the VCDX Defenses. This can be anything from low-level configurations in the design to including a specific bullet point in the slide deck.
Just like this blog post, they are just someone’s opinions. Everything you read should be thought about before you actually act on it. If you get a recommendation to do XYZ, ask yourself, “why should I be doing this? Does it make sense?”. Don’t just blindly add it into your defence.
This also goes back to my previous post: Common VCDX Mistakes: A M P R S
Everyone is different and has their own individual ways of working with customers. Do what works for you as an architect, not what you think the panel wants to see.
As usual, these are my own thoughts, and may not be shared by other VCDX panelists. If you are interested in my thoughts, you can either subscribe to my blog or follow me on Twitter to keep an eye out for new posts.
Feel free to discuss in the comment section below.
Continuing on with my Common VCDX Mistakes posts I have another one for you.
I need you to ask yourself a question. When you are working with customers, how many times do you write the following on a whiteboard?
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Continuing on from yesterday’s post: Common VCDX Mistakes: A02: Enough bandwidth between Datacenters I have another common VCDX mistake for you.
What SLA?
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Continuing on from yesterday’s post: Common VCDX Mistakes: R01: Customer Requires N+1 I have another common VCDX mistake for you.
A02: Enough bandwidth between Datacenters
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Over the years as a VCDX panellist, I began seeing a pattern of regular mistakes that candidates make either in the VCDX Application process or in the actual VCDX Defense. So I have decided to write some short posts highlighting different mistakes. As usual, these are my own thoughts, and may not be shared by other VCDX panellists. If you are interested in my thoughts, you can either subscribe to my blog or follow me on Twitter to keep an eye out for new posts.
For those of you whole aren’t familiar with the VCDX program, you can read more about it here: VMware Certified Design Expert .
Today I want to kick off with the following:
R01: Customer Requires N+1
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