Last week I reviewed some recently submitted designs and it appears that the requirements stated in the application form are too ambiguous. During this year I’ve seen many application forms and the same error are made by many candidates. Let’s go over the sections which contain the most errors and try to remove any doubts [...]

This is just a small heads-up post for all the VCDX candidates. Almost every VCDX application I read mentions the fact that they needed to increase the Disk TimeOutValue (HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/System/CurrentControlSet/Services/Disk) by to 60 seconds on Windows machines. The truth is that the VMware Tools installation (ESX version 3.0.2 and up) will change this registry value [...]

Monday 8th of February I was scheduled to participate in the defend session of the VCDX panel at Las Vegas. For people not familiar with the VCDX program, the defend panel is the final part of the extensive VCDX program. My defend session was the first session of the week, so my panel members where [...]

Last week VMware send out the invitations for the VCDX defend session at the Partner Exchange Las Vegas 2010. Like many others I’m trying to finish my application on time. So any help, shortcut and timesavers will help realize the goal. At this moment these tools and shortcuts save me lots of time: Puretext Steve [...]