Everything-Virtual

Category: vSphere

  • Goals for 2011

    Well folks, it’s nearly the end of 2010 and it’s been an interesting year.

    I have decided that next year I have a number of goals that I want to attain, these are.

    * Sit and pass my VCP vSphere 4 Exam
    * Improve my VMware product knowledge (VMware View in particular)
    * Produce more technical content for this site (as well as my-homelab.com)
    * Move more into the VMware Virtualisation platform market and less of the Microsoft one.
    * Become a recognised VMware blogger (I want my vExpert).
    * Continue to improve my home lab environment.

    Obviously to get some of those out of the way is going to require a lot of hardwork and dedication, hopefully I will be able to show everyone that I can do just that.

    Have a great New Year and see you on the flipside.

  • Various VMware Posters

    I have been downloading and printing a lot of documentation recently in preperation for my VCP, three different downloads were of various posters, these included the vreference card for vSphere 4.1 from Forbes Guthrie’s site, another one was the PowerCLI reference from the VMware Communities PowerCLI site and finally there was the Dudley Smith‘s Connections and Ports poster .

    Having tried to print these out on A3 sized paper and not liking the results I decided to get them printed professionally, I am now the proud owner of three A1 sized glossy posters which will be put up on the wall of my office this weekend 😀

  • Hard work – does it pay off?? It appears not.

    Oh well, it looks like hard work doesn’t actually pay off, I am no further forward where virtualising my company is concerned, at the top I have my CIO who has two very strong willed people giving her two very distinct views, me very heavily in favour of virtualisation and the Infrastructure manager who is VERY heavily against it.

    I now need to provide very good justifications as to why they should spend out a lot of money to virtualise the environment when the Infrastructure manager says it simply doesn’t fit our support\work model.

    With potentially a month left on my contract do I push further and risk no renewal or just sit back and accept that for whatever reason they simply won’t virtualise and leave it at that?

    Sometimes I feel like I should be banging my head against a brick wall 🙁

  • Hardwork – Does it pay off??

    Hopefully I will be finding out more today.

    I am trying to persuade work that virtualisation is definitely the route to go, senior management are buying in but unfortunately junior management aren’t. That means a convincing business case is needed.

    I sure hope that my working with various resellers is going to pay off otherwise chances are my contract won’t be renewed at the end of the year, if that’s the case however it means my VCP will be closer because I will take that time out to study for it.

    More on this later 🙂