[H] Virtualization Certification
Hey guys, I downloaded Citrix XenServer 5.5 about 6 months ago and have been using it heavily at home for several purposes. Bottom line is that I'm now hooked on virtualization. It's an awesome technology that really has a bright future. I was thinking of some sort of certification in virtualization. Perhaps that could be a future career path for me. I know VMWare is the industry 800-pound gorilla, but how does everyone thing about Citrix certification? Is it worth the time and money or should I spend it on VMWare certification? Thanks in advance!
Re: [H] Virtualization Certification
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:26:48PM +0300, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: Hey guys, I downloaded Citrix XenServer 5.5 about 6 months ago and have been using it heavily at home for several purposes. Bottom line is that I'm now hooked on virtualization. It's an awesome technology that really has a bright future. I was thinking of some sort of certification in virtualization. Perhaps that could be a future career path for me. I know VMWare is the industry 800-pound gorilla, but how does everyone thing about Citrix certification? Is it worth the time and money or should I spend it on VMWare certification? VMWare is king, especially at bigger companies. Also VMware does a better job at virtualizing windows, storage, and networking IMO. Get your VCP on. -- Bryan G. Seitz
Re: [H] Virtualization Certification
I agree that VMWare is King, however, I have heard a lot of people in forums bemoan the fact that VMWare products are now outrageously expensive. Citrix has caught on at the small-midsized companies, but for larger companies and enterprises, VMWare is the big dog. Hyper-V is Hyper-Crap!!! -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bryan Seitz Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 6:39 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Virtualization Certification On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:26:48PM +0300, Naushad, Zulfiqar wrote: Hey guys, I downloaded Citrix XenServer 5.5 about 6 months ago and have been using it heavily at home for several purposes. Bottom line is that I'm now hooked on virtualization. It's an awesome technology that really has a bright future. I was thinking of some sort of certification in virtualization. Perhaps that could be a future career path for me. I know VMWare is the industry 800-pound gorilla, but how does everyone thing about Citrix certification? Is it worth the time and money or should I spend it on VMWare certification? VMWare is king, especially at bigger companies. Also VMware does a better job at virtualizing windows, storage, and networking IMO. Get your VCP on. -- Bryan G. Seitz
Re: [H] Virtualization Certification
Do you need something like this to help you get involved in virtualization professionally? what are you looking to do specifically in terms of virtualization technology? I took vmware training classes before, it was a waste of money to get certified, even the trainer acknowledged as much - if you do virtualization/storage as part of your profession, it will reflect in your work experience. the cert doesn't mean much, no industry standard. I was doing a lot of vmware/netapp/netbackup back then, had to get officially trained in all of them, part of company protocol. On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:26:48 +0300, Naushad, Zulfiqar zulfiqar.naus...@siemens.com wrote: Hey guys, I downloaded Citrix XenServer 5.5 about 6 months ago and have been using it heavily at home for several purposes. Bottom line is that I'm now hooked on virtualization. It's an awesome technology that really has a bright future. I was thinking of some sort of certification in virtualization. Perhaps that could be a future career path for me. I know VMWare is the industry 800-pound gorilla, but how does everyone thing about Citrix certification? Is it worth the time and money or should I spend it on VMWare certification? Thanks in advance!
Re: [H] Virtualization Certification
Well, as I said, I am using Xenserver at home right now and since it is free, have managed to get a copy of it running in my office. We had a requirement to run 2 servers for development but had 1 physical box. I managed to convince the management to upgrade to 8 gigs of ram for that box and now we can run 2 servers in 1 physical box. So everyone is mucho happy and the developers really don't notice much speed difference. Anyway, no this is not work related, I just wanted it perhaps to be a career path for me. How do you suggest going about this? -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Alex Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 6:42 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Virtualization Certification Do you need something like this to help you get involved in virtualization professionally? what are you looking to do specifically in terms of virtualization technology? I took vmware training classes before, it was a waste of money to get certified, even the trainer acknowledged as much - if you do virtualization/storage as part of your profession, it will reflect in your work experience. the cert doesn't mean much, no industry standard. I was doing a lot of vmware/netapp/netbackup back then, had to get officially trained in all of them, part of company protocol. On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:26:48 +0300, Naushad, Zulfiqar zulfiqar.naus...@siemens.com wrote: Hey guys, I downloaded Citrix XenServer 5.5 about 6 months ago and have been using it heavily at home for several purposes. Bottom line is that I'm now hooked on virtualization. It's an awesome technology that really has a bright future. I was thinking of some sort of certification in virtualization. Perhaps that could be a future career path for me. I know VMWare is the industry 800-pound gorilla, but how does everyone thing about Citrix certification? Is it worth the time and money or should I spend it on VMWare certification? Thanks in advance!
