Here is a training on Storage fundamentals, Testing & Virtualization Technology given by people working in these fields. So far many people have been trained & also got jobs in some of the best paying companies like :
HP
Accenture
EMC2
ACS
HCL
Wipro
PCS
Mindtree
More than just bragging about it why not go check out the classes for yourself & see if it helps your career. I've been getting very positive feedback about this training place hence thought of including it for your use.
Course Coverage :
Storage Fundamentals
Storage protocols :SCSI,SAS,SATA
FC Protocol in detail
SAN
NAS
iSCSI
RAID & Disk management
Testing
Testing Process
Test Life cycle
Defect Management
Bug Life cycle
Virtualization
Importance & the exciting technology : Introduction to Virtualization
Data Centre problems & How Virtualization can solve them
Virtualization companies, products
Vmware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Intro
Installation & Configuration of ESX Server 3.0
Creation & Management of Virtual Machines
Resource Pools
High Availability
Distributed Resource Scheduling
Troubleshooting
Since these are some of the hottest topics & also very much in demand technologies I think its time you think of them as a Career option. Email jobsulike@gmail.com if you want to join this training.
These are interview questions asked in HP,IBM,Sun Microsystems to one of the blog reader. I thank him for sending & sharing these interview questions.
1.how do u find the CPU utilization ?
2.how do u find the number of CPU have in the machine ? what are the commands to add CPU ? What is core? What is quad core,dual core ?
3.if you are using Veritas volume manager,how do u find the maximum volume size you can create in the disk ?
4.if your veritas product licence expired and you want your system as usual or you want revert back?
how do you do ?
5.what is hard link and what is softlink?
6.what is difference between NAS and SAN?
7.how do you make NIS from the scratch ? difference between NIS +
8 some unix commands,in the case of solaris ,they willask "meta commands" for volume ?
7 useradd ,delete commands all parameters?
8.will ask about present project and the problem faced on the projects ?
9.best achievement ? how many people working under you ?
10. steps for adding disk,creating swap,increasing volume size ?
11.what are the steps follows for security purpose ?how do u find how many people using root password ?
12.what are the key things holding for disaster kit ?
13 what about back up job ?
14 what are the server using ?latest server ? versions of the OS ? difference between the previous version ?
in SAN few questions.they start with some general questions like
1 what is the future of SAN ?what is OSN ?
2 why do you want become SAN admin ? why people are still using NAS ?
3.give me some hardware name ,you are using ?
4.How do you give initial planning ,estimate to procure these storage hardware ?
5.What are the factors you consider while deploying storage solutions
6.What are your experience interacting with Customers & solving their storage issues?
More interview questions will be updated daily so email roger.smithson@gmail.com if you need more questions .
Vmware Interview questions : Some basic questions which were asked in the first round of interview. There were nearly 5 to 8 rounds of interview based on the designation.
1.What is virtualization ?
2.What are the major problems in Data centers today?
3.What basic factors are to be considered apart from Servers,Hardware while planning for a Data centre setup ?
4.How Can Virtualization solve some of the problems being faced by todays Data Centre
5.What are the advantages of Vmware Virtualization?
6.Which products of Vmware have you worked on? How & where did you work on them?
7.What versions of Vmware products have you implemented or had exposure working with?
8.Which are the other companies who are in Virtualization domain?
9.What are the competing products against Vmware's & in what way Vmware products differ from them ?
10.Explain your virtualization experience? Which virtualization project have you worked on?
11.What was your role & what features of VMware products have you used ?
12.Explain your work exposure in Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) ?
13.How do you install & configure different components of VI3 ?
14.How do you configure Vmotion? What are the conditions to be met for Vmotion? What is Vmotion or Live Migration?
15.How do you configure High Availability(HA) in Virtual Centre ?
16.How was DRS(Distributed Resource Scheduling) implemented in your project?
17.What is snapshot? Whats the use of it in Vmware products?
18.Explain the architecture of VMware ESX Server ?
19.Can you explain what these terms are VMkernel, VMM , Service Console , Console OS?
More interview questions will be posted by tomorrow. For answers plz email roger.smithson@gmail.com - U need to pay for the answers :)
Hi Aron
Thanks for your interest & faith in me. I thank you for placing the order on the blog for 200 interview questions at $24.
What you paid was for 200 Interview questions only. But still i want to appreciate your payment & hence you will find answers also for almost 200 interview questions on storage essential topics attached in this email . Anyone who can put time & dedication to read through all these documents can win any Storage job .There are more than 100 people as proof for this who got job offers who used these materials as their core preparation reference guides. so I request you to make the best use of these resources .
These questions were collected from the real interviews attended in almost all major storage companies.
Please DO NOT forward these materials to any body. It usually happens you will forward to your close friend & he will forward to his close friends & thus it reaches more than 1000 people .It happens like some one copies it on his website or blog so every one can have it. I am requesting you NOT to forward this to anyone.I want people to appreciate the effort gone into preparation of these materials. People many times do not value/appreciate what they get for free so if someone is really dedicated they will read through all the articles on this blog & can get the infromation . On the other hand if someone is not having time to read through and want to pay & get all interview questions with answers they can email roger.smithson@gmail.com so that they support this blog to grow. I hope you understand my request.
Please email your feedback & suggestions .Let me know what you feel about this package.
As a thank you from my side find some quick reference guides,advanced SAN Design guide from a major storage company attached & some more detailed guides on the topics I've covered in interview questions.
U also get a bonus HR interview questions answers pdf as well as a SAN Student guide FREE
Find these 19 documents attached in the email I am sending you.

Keep emailing me your progress & I'm sure you can prepare fast for your interviews with these reference materials on storage.
Best Regards
Roger