The Top vBlog Voting for 2015 at vSphere-land.com which is headed up and run by Eric Sebert (@ericsebert) is now open. http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2032977/TopvBlog2015 There are so many excellent Blogs out there and it’s a credit to the community that so much content is being created. It’s a hard gig to get a vote with almost 400+ sites listed, but […] Read More
MVMUG – Pivoting and The New IT
Last week I attended my second Melbourne VMUG User Conference. The UserCon was again well attended and the Melbourne VMUG Team did a great job putting together a VMWorld Standard Lineup filled with excellent content …highlighted by Keynotes from John Troyer (@JTroyer) and Chad Sakac (@sakacc) as well as Vaughn Stewart (@vStewed). I flew in early to […] Read More
vExpert 2015: Passion and Community
I’m honoured to be recognized as a VMware vExpert for 2015…this is my 4th year as a vExpert and without doubt the passion that drives this community remains as impressive as ever. There are now over 1000 vExperts worldwide and while I have questioned the swelling of the vExpert numbers over the past couple of […] Read More
Australia Day with @aussievMafia #100
In celebration of Australia Day …and this blogs 100th Post… I have put together an RSS Widget that feeds from the AussievMafia site. RSS Feed Widget The AussievMafia are a group of Aussie’s who are passionate about Virtualisation…myself included! The content that’s fed into the page is well worth the follow. Copy and paste the feed […] Read More
Working Through Frustration
The tweet below was posted last night…24 hours later I have found myself in a much better place and certainly free of the thoughts that caused me to vent and I even might have taught myself a lesson… Generally frustrated at the moment…need to try and refocus and push through! Things not quiet happening as they […] Read More
The Internet of Things…Flawed Hype!
Over the last 10-15 years there have been many buzz words and phrases conceived by IT professionals which are then hijacked by marketing spinsters that end up being loathed by people within the IT community. Y2K, ASP, Cloud, Big Data, Single Pane and Glass, The Internet of Things, Hyper Converged, Webscale…and more recently Hybridity (shudder). Over the […] Read More
2015
Time flies when you are having fun! 2014 from a work point of view was challenging at times…but overall I felt a lot was achieved. In my last couple of new year posts I’ve talked about work/life balance and looking back at 2014 I can say that overall balance was maintained…I’m pretty lucky to work […] Read More
In Vendors We Trust! Storage is God…
I tweeted recently that IT Professionals at some level must love pain…All through my working life I’ve dealt with outages and issues that cause myself and other around me significant amounts of agita and pain. The IT industry is unique in that we, as professionals must deal with issues that to a certain extent are caused […] Read More
VCAP-VDCA550 – Objective 4.4 : Configure and manage vSphere Replication
One of the new Objectives in the VCAP-DCA 550 is around the vSphere Replication Appliance. The Blueprint specifics that there will be one Replication Appliance in the Exam Lab so safe to assume you will be getting a question on vSR. Objective 4.4– Configure and manage vSphere Replication Skills and Abilities Configure and manage a […] Read More
Hyper-V is better tech than ESXi – What are Microsoft Smoking??
“We are 4x cheaper with better technology versus VMware.” I’ve been fairly open in my opinion against the latest round of Microsoft FUD coming out of their Worldwide Partner Conference this week but I felt strongly enough by the utter crap coming out of their mouths to respond in a post. Turner says MSFT Hyper-V now 4x […] Read More