I recently passed the Master Specialist exam for VMware Cloud on AWS and this guide contains all my study notes and resources I used during my preparation. VMware Cloud on AWS Master Specialist Exam overview The exam is a multiple choice exam with 34 questions which you need to finish in 60 minutes. The passing ...
DHPA TechFest 2018 I was invited to talk at the DHPA TechFest 2018. The DHPA foundation is a collaboration between market-leading hosting and cloud providers in The Netherlands. DHPA TechFest is not your regular IT event. It is called an IT festival by the organization with the tagline “work hard, play hard”. Besides several technical ...
What is AWS Storage Gateway AWS Storage Gateway is basically an on-premises software appliance that exposes AWS cloud storage to your local environment. You basically deploy the appliance, connect it to the AWS Storage Gateway backend service and create a File Share (S3 or Glacier backed) or Volume (EBS Snapshot backed): In this blogpost ...
VMware Cloud Briefing Event Today, VMware held an online Cloud Briefing Event in which updates to the VMware cloud strategy were announced. Most prominently, VMware announced general availability of the VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) service in Europe. The first region is London and additional regions are already on the horizon. Besides the global expansion ...
Thoughts on the exam I originally planned to take the exam in 2017 but with some delay, I passed the AWS SAA exam this morning on my first try! I thought the exam was pretty tough but fair. I have not been exposed to AWS very much and the only hands-on experience was labbing around in ...
vRNI and Cross Cloud Architecture As part of last year’s announced VMware’s Cross Cloud Architecture, VMware introduced native Amazon AWS public cloud support for vRealize Network Insight 3.4 Enterprise Edition: “vRealize Network Insight now provides visibility into native AWS constructs such as VPC, VM, Security Group, and Firewall rules. Traffic flows are also analyzed to ...
My very first AWS EC2 instance In this blogpost I will quickly take you through the process of spinning up my very first EC2 instance in my AWS Free Tier lab environment. I will be using T2.micro instances which are eligible for the Free Tier. The first step is to go to the EC2 service ...
My personal motivation I have invested heavily in my VMware certifications the past few years and managed to become certified at the highest level after becoming VCDX-DCV #252 in May of this year. This was a personal mission and I absolutely love VMware technology. However, I am also very passionate about cloud computing. I have ...
I have decided to pursue the AWS Solution Architect certification program so this is a quick blogpost on how to enable the Amazon AWS Free Tier. I will be using this environment for labs during my study but I am kind of hoping I will be able to build some hybrid cloud use cases by hooking ...
A fully managed VMware SDDC stack running in AWS data centers Although announced last week before VMworld Europe 2016, one of the biggest topics in Barcelona is without a doubt the major partnership between VMware and Amazon which resulted in the announcement of VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC). VMC is a fully managed service delivering ...
