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My first step on the VCDX ladder
Last wednesday I took the VCE310 exam, the first step towards the VCDX path.
I don’t know the results yet because the Live Lab portion needs to be examined by hand and it takes near 10 days to do so, in fact this waiting is killing me
I think I did pretty well, the Lab portion was quite simple to me, instead I found the questions quite challenging, especially those on the exact syntaxes for esxcfg-* commands, in my opinion those notions should not be memorized because they’re quite volatile and are always just a man command away.
Now I’m just waiting for the results and hopefully for the invitation to the design exam (or the new VCAP4-DCA).
Ciao,
Fabio
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A not so successful case and the power of marketing
These days I am competing with IBM XIV in a business negotiation.
I’m gathering as much information as possible to give the customer a document he could find immediately useful and then I’ll publish it on this blog.
During my research I came across this “success case” (just one out of the 11 published): the customer says he bought a XIV (79 TB usable) to feed a 7TB database and now, (guess what?) he finds it outperforms his previous obsolete storage.
WOW! He says that after having piled disks up to 180TB RAW, to mange 7TB of data for a single application, he is satisfied with the performance: it might be but is surely far from being efficient!
Marketing rules!!!!



