Starting the M202 course soon
One of my colleagues wondered if I already participated in the April 2014 M202 course, but I was too late. This July I will try to finish this course.
M202 is the course for "MongoDB Advanced Deployment and Operations", which means more depth in sharding, disaster recovery, upgrade strategies and other best practices. The course was supposed to start last week, July 8, but it was postponed because the implementation of some course updates took longer than expected.
The prerequisite for this course is any M102 (MongoDB for DBAs) course. The FAQ mentions that users with a Windows or Mac system should have a Linux VM, because that's what the course will use. Although not a big problem, my past experience with VirtualBox showed me that the shared folder just doesn't have enough I/O performance for MongoDB and production release notes suggest that NFS might not be an option either. This would mean enabling a large secondary disk on the VM I will use. VirtualBox used to crash on me in the past, resulting in a corrupted file system for the VM so I am not really looking forward to that.
In a few hours or at most a day from now I hope to view the first videos of this new course. Not yet excited, but that will change once the course started.