Hi,
With so many messages about virtualization coverage I can't resit voicing my opinion. Feel free to disagree, please just don't repeat arguments already made on this thread, I've read it all. ;-) The way I understand LPI principles KVM, Xen and LCX (containers) would be tecnhnologies to cover, being open source and included in the most popular distros. VMware and Hyper-V linux support would be off-topic, and any sysadmin who understand a proper KVM setup using paravirt drivers would understand poprietary hypervisor tools. libvirt et al would be a most, because support multiple hypervisors and are on both debian and red-hat families of distros. But native tools (open source, xend) for xen would also be a must. Qemu would enter as a dependency for both kvm and xen on linux, but I don't see enough justificative for qemu per se (without hardware virtualization and so either kvm or xen) I think basis of Xen and KVm should be part of LPICP-2 because today most small to medium environments use virtualizations. Small companies with a single server run tree or four VMs, because it's easy and cost-effective. Everybody talk about, and they are really a time-saver, bringing more flexibility to the server environment. A LPICP-2 should at least deploy a simple VM using virt-manager and virsh and be able to understand how it impacts performance, security, upgrading, backup and disaster recovery. If this makes too much for LPICP-2, it's time to reevaluare: four levels? Three tests for LPICP-2? It's not because the curent LPICP model has worked for the latest 10 years and more that it'll continue working for he next 10. As a candidate I wouln't mind more tests or more questions if they reflect my daily job, and as a boss I'd focus on the results: if I need pros with virtualization knoledge, LPICP-2 should cover them someway. vSphere, XenEnterprise and other closed source tools, no matter the market share, would be off-topic. Leave that for the vendor certs. "Enterprise" and could stuff like oVirt, openstack, virtual switchs should IMHO be a LPICP-3 expertize area, that is, it's own cert with a LPICP-2 prereq. And by the way I don't think VDI (think spice, XenDesktop) would be worth LPI topics by now. []s, Fernando Lozano
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