Archive for May, 2009
‘”Please Sir, May I Have Some More Virtual Days?”
by James D. Murray on May.20, 2009, under JDMurray
VMWare ESXi 3.5.0 is a bare-metal hypervisor available as a 60-day, fully functional evaluation. After 60 days, ESXi will operate with reduced accessibility and functionality. However, it is possible to reset the evaluation counter back to 60 days without loosing your ESXi machine’s configuration, inventory, or VMs. In a nutshell, the steps to perform this reset are:
CompTIA Server+ 2009 Objectives Where-to-find-it
by James D. Murray on May.19, 2009, under JDMurray
A group of members here at TechExams.net are a little excited about the new beta exam for the revised CompTIA Server+ certification for 2009. OK, we’re excited at the prospect of picking up yet-another-certification for free while helping CompTIA test-run its latest revision of the Server+ exam. I already have the Server+ cert from way back in 2003, but my opinion is apparently as valuable a non-cert holder, so I was granted an opportunity by CompTIA to participate as well.
The objectives for the 2009 Server+ exam certainly show quite an improvement over the exam I took. I remember the big areas I had to study-up on were tape backup strategies, the numerous levels of RAID, and the various types of SCSI technology. The revised Server+ exam adds objectives about networks and networking devices, file systems, motherboards and components, electronic media storage systems, and virtualization. There are also sections on physical security, disaster recover, and troubleshooting. The new Server+ is a lot like the A+ and Network+ certs combined, but from the server room tech’s point of view.
Anyway, I don’t want to review the new Server+ exam before I actually take it. Instead, this article presents a study reference for the Server+ exam for those people who are participating in the beta test, and for those who will take the exam after it is formally released. The following (long) listing is derived from the 2009 Server+ objectives and contains links to external Web sites (mostly Wikipedia) that provide information about each objective. Remember that CompTIA exams are entry-level, so it’s not necessary to become an expert on each objective, but please do try and learn a few new things along the way.
