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Jumpy

Is there anyone else here who works quite deep in different virtual environments?
I am specifically trying to find someone who has done the VCAP-DCA.

Jumpy

Doh!

qwertz

Surely you meant to write VMware

What's your specific question?

Jumpy

Which remote console app is focused on in the exam.

I am a PowerCLI person. But I fear it may be vCLI.

swampgas

I think it's PowerCLI, as that's one of the recommended courses:

http://mylearn.vmware.com/mgrReg/plan.cfm?plan=16657&ui=www_cert


Hmm, there's an exam UI demo there as well - must check that out!

http://mylearn.vmware.com/courseware/82526/VCAPDCA_Tutorial.swf

Jumpy

The blueprint says vCLI though. Its very confusing.

I hate the format of vCLI commands. I was never a nix person.

swampgas

Jumpy wrote: »

The blueprint says vCLI though. Its very confusing.

I hate the format of vCLI commands. I was never a nix person.

Reading the blueprint doc, it looks like the vCLI commands required are the regular ESX command line tools (esxcfg-*, esxtop, etc.) and the ones available on the vMA appliance - vicfg-*, resxtop, etc.

Section 8 - the scripting and automation section, which involves writing scripts rather than just running individual commands, seems to be all PowerCLI.

swampgas

Check out http://www.seancrookston.com/vcap-dca/ - looks very useful.

Jumpy

Just bought a new notebook, going to test this out too.

http://www.hypervizor.com/2010/10/advanced-guide-vmware-vcloud-director-in-a-box-works-on-4gb-laptops/