VMware Certified Professional – VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator 2024

Not just another badge on the CV, but a key role with far-reaching consequences.

Until recently, members of the VMware vExpert Program had access to a wide range of VMware trial licenses. This ensured that these specialists could gain practical experience with VMware software and pass on this knowledge in the form of blogs, lectures or video tutorials.
This still applies, but with one restriction:
VMware’s core product VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) is excluded from this.
In order to obtain test licenses for this product, vExperts must also be qualified as VMware Certified Professioanl (VCP) for VCF.
The same applies to holders of VMUG Adavantage membership.
Here, too, VCF licenses will only be available in future against proof of VCP-VCF certification (2V0-11.24 or later).
As a VMware trainer, there is another implication. One of the (many) requirements to be allowed to teach VCF courses in the future is also the VCP-VCF.

To learn the basics, Broadcom offers on-demand training.

But this training and certification is not only important in terms of licenses.
Everyone who will be working with this product in the future will gain basic knowledge of the VCF architecture, deployment and Day-2-Operations.

My 2nd talk at VMware Explore 2024

Together with my fellow VMUG Leader Patrick Häfner, I will be giving a talk at this year’s VMware Explore in Barcelona. Whereby ‘talk’ is the wrong choice of word here. We will start an interactive discussion with topics about the VMUG community, information exchange and benefits that can arise for everyone.

Patrick and I have been active in the VMUG for many years. Together with Andreas Wizemann, he manages VMUG-Stuttgart. Together with Markus Gehm and Jens Klasen, I am the leader of VMUG-Kaiserslautern.

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The session can be found in the Content Catalog under the number 1615.

Our talk will take place on Tuesday, November 5, 16:00 CET

My talk at VMware Explore 2024

I will be giving a presentation on the migration of a vSAN cluster at this year’s VMware Explore in Barcelona. This is not just about the technical implementation, but rather about the decision-making process. If plan A doesn’t work, you should have a plan B ready. Or – as in my practical example – a plan C and ultimately a plan D.

The easy way is not always the best and even a less attractive alternative can ultimately lead to success.

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The presentation is listed in the VMware Explore Content Catalog under the number 1405 .

Monday, November 4 – 15:00 CET.

I am delighted.

vSAN Cluster Live-Migration to new vCenter instanceIf you can’t make it to Barcelona but are still interested in the topic (spoiler alert!), you can find the full story here on my blog.

VMware Explore 2024 US – Recordings available online

Did you miss the live broadcast of the General Session of VMware Explore 2024 US in Las Vegas, or would you like to watch individual contributions again at your leisure? Then there is good news.

The VMware Explore team has published numerous sessions in the on-demand catalog. This year, for the first time, the catalog is accessible without registration. So if you weren’t able to attend VMware Explore, you can now learn even more.

I would particularly like to highlight William Lam, who, as in previous years, has published an overview of the sessions with a download link on GitHub.