So far, this has been a year dedicated to a rewarding career transition,  continuing to build up the vCommunity Trust and updating my certifications rather than maintaining my blog.  I have achieved my EACOE Enterprise Architecture Certification, my first EMC Proven Professional  EMCCIS Certification and have three more exams scheduled between now and Feb. 24th ( plus on-site intructor led Vblock training the week of the 14th ).  It's safe to assume that the #vTrust site as well as this one will be neglected for a short while.  Therefore, your contributions of training materials and lab guides are wanted now more than ever (See http://www.vcommunitytrust.org ).  My goals for after the exam on Feb. 24 are to resume building some lab guides for more VCP 5 related material plus real world use cases for AppSense Management Center & Enterprise Manager, VMware View & ThinApp; Citrix Netscaler, Branch Repeater, XenDesktop, XenApp, and Provisioning Servers/Appliances.  It would also be nice to get some guides from the community for any of the topics mentioned on the vProfessional Training materials page on the #vTrust site.  You are welcome to submit materials that are not mentioned on that page as well keeping in mind that the goal is infrastructure training in general - not vendor or technology specific.  Additionally, at some point in the near future we hope to have the remainder of requirements for the hands-on lab environment ( FC Switch/es as well as disks and trays compatible with FAS 3020 or another storage solution ), so we'll be installing that into ipHouse ( Thanks to Mike Howarth!  @geekandi ) once we have everything we need.