As preparation for the VCP6-Cloud study Guide I downloaded all of the documents mentioned in the blueprint and decided to put them in to an easily downloadable bundle for everyone else to download.
The zip file contains folders for each section\objective and contains some duplications but for the most part shared files for each section can be found under the common files folder in that section folder.
The file can be downloaded here
VMware have announced updates to their vCloud Suite product.
VMware have extended the number of products that are included in the vCloud Suite 5.5, this includes vCloud Automation Center (vCAC) availability in all editions rather than just the Enterprise Suite. Prior to this announcement vCloud Automation Center came in a single version, however the announcement let’s us know that we now have Standard, Advanced and Enterprise versions available.
vCloud Director and vCloud Networking and Security are not sold as standalone products anymore.
All editions of the vCloud Suite now include automation features (offered by vCAC) and Operations Management (using vCOPS).
So I had the pleasure of attending the VMware vForum event at Wembley Stadium yesterday. One of the surprise finds at the event was the Condusiv Technologies stand down in the Solutions Exchange.
Now I didn’t realise it but Condusiv Technologies are a company I have had experience of before, for those of you familiar with Diskeeper you will remember the name Executive Software, well at some point Executive Software rebranded themselves as Condusiv Technologies.
For the most part Condusiv were there demonstrating their new V-locity software, the benefits of which are said to be :-
From what I saw of the demonstration I was very impressed with the potential of V-locity and I have asked Condusiv for an NFR license to do some home testing on my home lab, hopefully a license will be winging it’s way over to me soon so that I can run some tests on my various NAS devices here (both pre and post software install).
In was good catching up with old friends from various different companies (VMware, EMC\MTI, GlobalKnowledge) as well as catching up with some of my fellow #LonVMUG’ers and I was also glad to see at least one other person wearing his CloudCreds t-shirt with pride 
This was my first vForum event and I must say it was well presented with just the right amount of detail, the solutions exchange area was full of different vendors and the food\drink provided was top notch.
Over all I was impressed and will be attending next years event as well.
Thank you VMware.
VMware have just launched the CloudCredibility website that gives you and your team the chance to prove how good you are by awarding points for every challenge\task you complete. It’s a fairly light hearted approach to showing off you and your Teams Cloud abilities from both a technical and non-technical stand point.
It has tasks covering social media, course attendance as well as hosting podcasts and writing books so there are lots of different things to suit everyone.
Have a look and join in the fun 
Recently at VMworld in San Francisco VMware announced the vCloud 5.1 Suite and yesterday brought about its general availability.
The vCloud 5.1 Suite is a complete integrated cloud infrastructure solution and was definitely one of the primary discussion points at of VMworld among partners and end users.
From the VMware Press Release some of the highlights of the vCloud 5.1 Suite are:
Check out the VMware press release for full details – VMware press release – VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vCloud Suite 5.1