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The GNU/Linux systems have reached an important level of maturity, allowing to integrate them in almost any kind of work environment, from a desktop PC to the sever facilities of a big company.

In this ebook "The GNU/Linux Operating System", the main contents are related with system administration. You will learn how to install and configure several computer services, and how to optimize and synchronize the resources using GNU/Linux.

The topics covered in this 500+ page eBook include Linux network, server and data administration, Linux kernel, security, clustering, configuration, tuning, optimization, migration and coexistence with non-Linux systems. A must read for any serious Linux system admin.

Offered Free by: Free Technology Academy (FTA)

This soon to be released VMware Training Course will show you how to follow best practices for secure design, deployment, and operations of a VMware vSphere™ environment. Through lecture, discussion, and hands-on practice, you will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the security and compliance goals of your organization. Because this course is currently beta, there may be changes to the final course.

Objectives   

• Identify vulnerabilities in the current design of a vSphere environment and recommend corrective actions
• Harden vSphere components as described in the security hardening guides for vSphere 4
• Use VMware® vShield Zones to provide firewall protection to virtual machines and monitor virtual machine network traffic
• Recommend configuration and change management policies, processes, and systems 
   

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The VIX API allows you to write programs and scripts that automate virtual machine operations, and run programs or manipulate files within guest operating systems. This API is high-level, easy to use, and practical for both script writers and application programmers. It runs on either Windows or Linux and supports management of VMware Workstation, VMware Server, and VMware vSphere including ESX/ESXi through vCenter Server. Bindings are provided for C, Perl, and COM (Visual Basic, VBscript, C#).

The API 1.10 Beta was released last February; this is the preliminary standalone VIX release that runs with VMware vSphere 4.x. This release also bundles earlier VIX libraries, including the libraries delivered for Workstation and VMware Server. 

I’ve created a new tool called the vmFilemanager; this tool is completely built on the VIX API 1.10 Beta. It’s not available for download yet, but I’ve recorded a demo which show how to copy files into a virtual machine. The awesome part is that I’ll also show you how easy it is to create such a tool in the free version of Microsoft Visual Basic 2008, AKA the Express Edition.

You can watch the HD version of this online training at this link. But it’s also available on Vimeo.

More VIX awesomeness can be found at professionalvmware.com powered by @cody_bunch

William Lam --> @cody_bunch @esloof I knew VIX had great potential when it supported VI+vSphere back in 08 - Some of early docs http://bit.ly/dAm5NW

This soon to be released VMware Training Course will equip application-oriented administrators with the knowledge and skills to virtualize Windows applications with VMware ThinApp 4.5, to modify the Package.ini parameters to handle special circumstances, and to choose the best deployment and updating strategy for their environment. The (beta) goals of this course are:

• To teach you how to use the parameters that are available in the Package.ini file to tailor ThinApp packages for your environment
• To teach you how to use the Application Link and Application Sync utilities in ThinApp
• To teach you basic troubleshooting methodology and expose you to commonly available tools to assist in troubleshooting

The names are out:

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Enterprise Admin
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - Design

Fellow VCI and virtualization friend Scott Vessey has attended the latest VCP Brown Bag webinar where VMware’s Jon Hall has announced the new advanced certification titles. Scott is running a weblog at VMware Training and Certification where you can find the latest vCAP info.

Update: If you want to listen to the full audio transcript, Cody Bunch over at Professionalvmware has uploaded the video. Here's the link.

Please keep in mind that VMware Education Services hasn’t officially released the new titles yet. They will be making an announcement soon regarding the new certification plans, and of course provide more detail around the program and its implications. 

Question for VMware: What about the people who already passed the enterprise administrator exam and the design exam, are we left out in the cold? Some of us even participated in the beta’s and in fact helped with developing the current version....... What should we call ourselves, a vCAP3 Enterprise Admin and Design?

This soon to be released training course is completely based on PowerCLI. It equips VMware professionals with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to automate tasks that are performed in a VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure.

•        Identify VMware vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets
•        Identify how to obtain help with vSphere PowerCLI cmdlets
•        Automate ESX/ESXi host storage and network configuration
•        Automate virtual machine provisioning
•        Automate virtual machine migration
•        Automate cluster configuration
•        Create reports with vSphere PowerCLI

I've taken a quick look at the beta material and it’s awesome! You’ll never become a PowerCLI expert by just looking at some slides, so this training is equipped with great laboratory exercises like:

vSphere PowerCLI Cmdlet Help, Configuring Virtual Switches, Configuring Storage, Provisioning Virtual Machines, Managing Virtual Machine Configuration, Virtual Machine Migration, Configuring Clustering, Virtual Machine Reporting, Virtual Machine Host Reporting and Cluster Reporting.

Stuck using our vSphere SDKs / APIs ?....Help is on the way.

Our good friends in the VMware Professional Training Organization are putting together a 2 day instructor led course. The course title is “vSphere Automation” The course is about using PowerCLI to manage vSphere. This hands-on training course introduces the use of VMware vSphere™ PowerCLI to automate VMware vSphere 4. This course demonstrates ways to automate tasks that can reduce your IT costs while improving efficiency, availability, flexibility, and manageability. The course is still in limited private beta and hope to see its release in 1H2010.

http://blogs.vmware.com/files/vmware-vsphere-4-0-automation-course-beta-datasheet.pdf