Cloud Credibility - Is there a TE group ?

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[h=2]www.cloudcredibility.com [/h]Is there a group yet or does someone fancy open one ?

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jibbajabba

Where are the tasks to add your VCPs ?!?

tprice5

jibbajabba wrote: »

Where are the tasks to add your VCPs ?!?

I just selected the main Tasks page and searched on "VCP".

Asif Dasl

@tprice5 - welcome aboard! The more the merrier...

Blog posts give you the most points for your effort, task 269 gives you 850 per post. I used my MCSA posts and it still counted, you can do it 4 times per prestige level. They give vExperts out for being a VMware virtualization evangelist so it helps to talk about VMware obviously but I slid by with my posts. I've only 4 posts to go and I'm going to do some YouTube videos on setting up a lab for those and going forward too... not sure if you get it right away or at the next announcement of vExperts which I think is in 2015..

dave330i

VCP & VCAP being worth the same amount of points really turned me off from the site.

tprice5

dave330i wrote: »

VCP & VCAP being worth the same amount of points really turned me off from the site.

If I were a VCAP this would upset me as well. And to make it worse, VCAs are worth 850 each! There were two tasks for each VCA, the regular task worth 250 points, then the "anniversary edition" worth 600.

Asif Dasl

dave330i wrote: »

VCP & VCAP being worth the same amount of points really turned me off from the site.

Yeah, at the end of the day... it's all about ability with working with the products, I don't lose sight of that. If points help you plough through the material and labs then I think it's a useful tool to use. But at the same time it's not perfect, and likely never will be because vExperts are handed out for things other than outright technical ability with their products.

darkerosxx

You guys must be contractors to care about the vExpert, or am I missing something that makes it worth getting outside of that?

Asif Dasl

There are benefits of being a vExpert, but yes I want to go contracting when I get back to work and it all counts. I don't see it as much as a VCAP or VCDX in my eyes but sadly vExpert probably has more recognition generally. I saw the first VCAP job over here today - I was shocked. I know partners are hiring VCAPs but haven't seen any jobs asking for it outright, mostly VCP + experience.

jibbajabba

darkerosxx wrote: »

You guys must be contractors to care about the vExpert, or am I missing something that makes it worth getting outside of that?

Getting 365 day trial keys can be helpful if you don't want to pinch your employers keys for the lab or spend actual real money.

Plus it can help in any job search, especially when applying for VMWare related jobs in partners and MSP (hence hiring managers actually knowing what a vExpert is).

But most of all bragging rights

JBrown

You should be able to get 1 or 2 year licenses for vCenter, ESXi, and vCloud via Stanley CC. They have their VMware store at onthehub. Given that you did take a class with Stanley in the past or present.

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jibbajabba wrote: »

Getting 365 day trial keys can be helpful if you don't want to pinch your employers keys for the lab or spend actual real money.

Plus it can help in any job search, especially when applying for VMWare related jobs in partners and MSP (hence hiring managers actually knowing what a vExpert is).

But most of all bragging rights