virtualization.info: High demand for virtualization competencies on IT jobs

High demand for virtualization competencies on IT jobs

Friday, December 16, 2005 | 2 Comments |

VMTN Blog reports IT industry started asking for more virtualization competencies on job recruiment. Earning a VMware Certified Professional credential can help to be employeed as soon as virtualization specialists increase in availability. I personally have two thoughts about this:

Quite every person on the IT world tried at least once VMware Workstation or Microsoft Virtual PC or QEmu. And a lot of them works with these products often. This kind of virtualization experience is considered enough to claim to be a virtualization specialist. But the large majority of these claimed specialists never worked or even saw things like ESX, GSX, VirtualCenter, Blades, Fiber Channel SANs, etc. and never done things like capacity planning, P2V, virtual networks designing, etc. Modern virtualization is in its infancy and as usually happens in these cases, companies must be really aware of who is expert and who pretend to be so. Otherwise virtualization performances will be poor or unacceptable, and virtualization projects will eventually fail, slowing down progress.
In my country, Italy, the request for virtualization competencies is still near to zero. I suspect that apart U.S. few other countries already started to feel the need of virtualization knowledge. For every other world nation the large part of companies requests can still be managed by a small bunch (10-20) of consultant companies. Things are going to change but not sooner than another couple of years.

Comments

Here in Holland too! There's a lot of talk about Virtualization but the folks are just too scared to try it all out.

My Ex-employer is (sluggishly) moving in the direction to become a VMware partner and they need officially 3 VCP's in order to qualify for that. But still the cert scenario is not really that hot.

I guess europe is slow in adopting new stuff.

By Tarry, at Friday, December 16, 2005 5:05:00 PM

Addendum:
And indeed the only way to book success in the VM projects is to have VMware staff directly involved in those projects. I fear that a lot of companies will just add that to their portfolio and you will experience a mushroom effect, when (I don't say should)virtualization picks up!

That might mean (VMware) hiring new staff in positions like
1. Principal/Technical Consultants (who will possess hands on experience in databases(oracle,sql server,mysql), web apps, a few mission critical app experience always helps), indeed knowledge of SAN, NAS,DAS etc, Deeply passionate about Virtualization!. Nothing beats that. You gotta love what you do. (My ex-colleague did ask me something about P2V for a project he's doing in Amsterdam , but it was more in terms of bunging a tool for the job).

2. Business Development Consultants:
Who'd have done the above job and would participate in more, uh ell business development, give advanced courses to company staff and accredit them with something like VCA (A for associate) and VCO (O for operators)and help enhance the companies portfolio and market range.

Anyways I agree with you that it'll be very hard to skim out the really passionate professionals from a fake/novice VCP/VMware partner.

I would personally find more satisfaction in working for VMware and get certified there than somewhere else.

By Tarry, at Friday, December 16, 2005 5:24:00 PM

Post a new comment