Best way to get in to VMware - which exams?

janesssssy · 9 Sep 2010 at 12:00

I have my Microsoft MCITP: Enterprise Administrator

But was wondering what the best way in to VMware. What exam paths should I do?

Thanks

ethos · 9 Sep 2010 at 12:27

First exam unless it's changed is the VCP, easy stuff but you don't get the certificate unless you take the £2-3k course.

janesssssy · 9 Sep 2010 at 14:38

Thanks, so is there any point in just taking the VCP exam. Unless there is a similar thing to the MS transcript.

TangoSixteen · 9 Sep 2010 at 16:00

Of course.

Its an excellent qualification. You just need to have been on an official course so you are in the VMware Education programme.

ThorpedoUK · 9 Sep 2010 at 21:25

Exactly the sole reason that I have not gone for the VCP myself, highly annoying as I have a lab perfectly able to run it (in a cluster)

The company won't pay for the course, but I want to do the exam and am happy to study in my own time using my own lab, but I'm not paying for £2-£3k for the course myself!

m4cc45 · 10 Sep 2010 at 06:43

VMWare are a little different to MS as they force you to do the learning. This is to promote that a VCP has more value as they are forced to do the traniing.

It's a good training course - you touch on everything and even though you may have a home lab the course goes into things you probably don't do (such as command line storage vmotion, deployment scripts, disaster recovery, etc).

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and if you are going to support this I'd certainly be asking my boss to put me on the course.

M.

SMN · 10 Sep 2010 at 08:32

VCP but it is very expensive and you need to build a good lab at home first to play with VMotion on shared storage, farms, etc.

Best bet is to get a job you play with VMWare, get experience and then look at quals. If you have a VCP and no experience nobody will talk to you.

G.O.A.T · 10 Sep 2010 at 11:53

I've got my VCP3 and VCP4 and am currently studying for my VCAP in Datacentre Administration. As said the VCP is the base level exam but does have a high cost as without the £3000 course you don't become a VCP.

I'm also a VTSP (Vmware Technical Sales Professional) which is a straightforward and free on-line course/exam. However I'm not sure if you need to be VMware partner to register for it? Might be worth looking into.

As stated before any VMware qualification won't get you very far if you have no experience.

ThorpedoUK · 10 Sep 2010 at 13:16

Congrats GOAT, you lucky son of a ...

I have the experience just no chance of the course, which is frustrating!