Today I had for the second time the VCP-510 exam and this time I passed the test with 411Points 
Category: vSphere
vSphere
vSphere 5 Reference Card
Forbes Guthrie created a vSphere 5 Reference Card. The VMware documentation is about 1700 pages, but fortunately these notes are packed down into about 50 pages.
They’re all excerpts take directly from the official VMware PDFs. This makes it great to study from, as the VCP questions are often taken straight from their documentation. I occasionally added a few words to help clarify the context of the sentence, but the vast majority of the content is word-for-word. Being direct quotes makes it easy for you to search within the PDF if you are unsure on an area or need greater clarification surround a statement.
To download just click on the picture 
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance on vSphere 5
A white paper has been published that examines how Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 performs on vSphere 5 in terms of scaling up (adding more virtual CPUs) and scaling out (adding more VMs). Having the choice to scale up or out while maintaining a positive user experience gives IT more flexibility to right-size system deployments and maximize total cost of ownership with respect to licensing and hardware purchases.
Testing shows the effectiveness of vSphere 5 to add compute power by scaling up Exchange Server VMs, in increments, from 2 to 12 virtual CPUs. This allowed the total number of very heavy Exchange users to increase from 2,000 to 12,000 while sendmail latency remained well within the range of acceptable user responsiveness. Processor utilization remained low, at about 15% of the total host processing capacity for 12,000 very heavy Exchange users.
Testing also shows that scaling out to eight Exchange Server VMs supports a workload of up to 16,000 very heavy users, with the load consuming only 32% of the ESXi host processing capacity.
Additional tests were undertaken to show the performance improvements of vMotion and Storage vMotion in vSphere 5. vMotion migration time for a 4-vCPU Exchange mailbox server VM showed a 34% reduction in vSphere 5 over vSphere 4.1. Storage vMotion migration time for a 350GB database VMDK showed an 11% reduction in vSphere 5 over vSphere 4.1.
For the full paper, see Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Performance on vSphere 5.
Upgrade ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.1
1. You need vSphere CLI – Download Here
For Windows or Linux and install on your workstation.
2. Download the Upgrade Package for 4.0 to 4.1
3. Power off your VM’s and put the host into maintenance mode
4. From the vSphere CLI prompt
vihostupdate.pl –server hostname or IP -i –b d:\downloads\upgrade-from-ESXi4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip -B ESXi410-GA
VMware vSphere 5 ready for download
VMware vSphere 5.0 is there. You can download the Software using the links below 
VMware ESXi 5.0 (Build 469512)
VMware vCenter 5.0 (Build 456005)
VMware Data Recovery 2.0 (Build 433157)
VMware vShield Zones for vSphere 5 (Build 216288)
VMware vSphere 5.0 Product Documentation
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New Features and Release Notes |
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Compatibility and Configuration Limits |
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Hardware, Host, and Guest Operating System Compatibility Guides |
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ESXi and vCenter Server Product Documentation |
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VMware vSphere Basics Guide |
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vSphere Installation and Setup Guide |
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vSphere Upgrade Guide |
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vCenter Server and Host Management Guide |
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vSphere Virtual Machine Administration Guide |
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vSphere Host Profiles Guide |
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vSphere Networking Guide |
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vSphere Storage Guide |
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vSphere Security Guide |
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vSphere Resource Management Guide |
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vSphere Availability Guide |
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vSphere Monitoring and Performance Guide |
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vSphere Troubleshooting |
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VMware vSphere Examples and Scenarios Guide |
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Command-Line Product Documentation |
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Getting Started with vSphere Command-Line Interfaces Guide |
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vSphere Command-Line Interface Concepts and Examples |
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vSphere PowerCLI User’s Guide |
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VMware vSphere Update Manager PowerCLI Installation and Administration Guide |
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vSphere Management Assistant Guide |
The VCP5 Mock Exam is available
VMware has released the mock exam for VCP on vSphere 5. The VCP5 mock exam consist of 30 questions and is available here. The official VCP5 exam can be scheduled at the end of this month.
VMware vSphere 5.0 Documentation
VMware vSphere™ 5.0 (“vSphere”) introduces many improvements and new features to extend the benefits and capabilities of vSphere 4.1. These advancements build on the core capacities in vSphere to provide improved scalability; better performance; and easier provisioning, monitoring and troubleshooting. This paper focuses on the following new features and enhancements:
• Virtual machine enhancements
• Improved SSD handling and optimization
• Command-line enhancements
• VMware® ESXi™ firewall
• vSphere Image Builder
• vSphere Auto Deploy server
• vSphere Host Profiles
• VMware vCenter™ Update Manager
Clipboard Copy and Paste option is disabled in vSphere Client 4.1
I upgraded my home test server to ESXi 4.1 and I the Clipboard Functie is disabled by default and that is so annying
Solution:
Starting with vSphere 4.1, the Copy and Paste options are, by default, disabled for security reasons.
To be able to copy and paste between the guest operating system and the remote console, you must enable the Copy and Paste options using the vSphere Client. Alternatively, you can use RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol) to connect to the Windows virtual machines.
To enable this option for a specific virtual machine:
- Log into a vCenter Server system using the vSphere Client and power off the virtual machine.
- Select the virtual machine and click the Summary tab.
- Click Edit Settings.
- Navigate to Options > Advanced > General and click Configuration Parameters.
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Click Add Row and type the following values in the Name and Value columns:
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- isolation.tools.copy.disable – false
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isolation.tools.paste.disable – false
Note: These options override any settings made in the VMware Tools control panel of the guest operating system.
- Click OK to close the Configuration Parameters dialog, and click OK again to close the Virtual Machine Properties dialog.
- Power on the virtual machine.
Note: If you vMotion a virtual machine to a host where the isolation.tools.*="FALSE" is already set, the copy and paste options are automatically activated for that virtual machine.
To enable this option for all the virtual machines in the ESX/ESXi host:
- Log in to the ESX/ESXi host as a root user and open the /etc/vmware/config file using a text editor.
- Add these entries to the file:
isolation.tools.copy.disable="FALSE"
isolation.tools.paste.disable="FALSE" - Save and close the file. The Copy and Paste options are only enabled when the virtual machines restart or resume the next time.
For more information, see the Limiting Exposure of Sensitive Data Copied to the Clipboard section of the ESX Configuration Guide.
NetApp and @VmWare 50,000 seat virtual desktop collaboration
I love twitter: I was again attended on a YouTube video. If you are loving VDI deployments this I one to watch 