Author Archives: Alex Galbraith

FreeNAS 0.7.2 NFS and iSCSI Performance in a vSphere 4.1 Lab

Posted on 6th March 2012 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on FreeNAS 0.7.2 NFS and iSCSI Performance in a vSphere 4.1 Lab

While doing some lab testing and benchmarking for my upcoming VCAP-DCD exam I came across some interesting results when messing about with NFS and iSCSI using FreeNAS. I plan [..]

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Free Microsoft 70-659 Server Virtualisation Exam at Prometric

Posted on 10th February 2012 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on Free Microsoft 70-659 Server Virtualisation Exam at Prometric

So I was doing a bit of a refresh on Hyper-V for a project I have upcoming later this year and I came across a superb offer from [..]

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VMware VCAP-DCD 4 Exam Prep Guide

Posted on 2nd February 2012 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on VMware VCAP-DCD 4 Exam Prep Guide

So I completed my VMware vSphere: Design Workshop [V4.x] last August, but just a week after that my second daughter was born. 6 months (and many dirty nappies) [..]

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VMware VCP-510 Exam Review

Posted on 1st February 2012 by Alex Galbraith | Permalink Comments Off on VMware VCP-510 Exam Review

So I took my exam today and passed with a reasonably respectable score of 428 (pass mark for VCP-510 is 300/500). So how was it? The exam itself [..]

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