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Travers Nicholas on
Monday, 12th of July 2010 at 03:09:23 AM
15 EMEA based vSpecialists, too much caffeine, the smell of last night’s pizza, and a seemingly impossible list of tasks to accomplish – that was Geek Week Q2 2010.
As a vSpecialist at EMC, we attend a lab construction week as part of the on-boarding and initiation ritual. The instructions are simple: take this list of applications and infrastructure configurations, and work as a team to install and configure them all with the kit we provide to you before the week ends. There are multiple objectives for Geek Week, the main ones being; get the team working together, learn about integrating EMC, VMware, and Cisco technologies, and develop a good understanding of technologies that are not yet released, so we are best able to support our customers at product launch time. Continue reading Geek week : How to build an empire in 6 days
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nick on
Saturday, 5th of June 2010 at 03:50:35 PM
Man what a roller coaster ride my life has been this year:
I started a new job with EMC on the vSpecialist team Released my major update to the vSphere Mini Monitor Created the Celerra VSA UBER edition (now version 2) Helped create the VMware TechSummit labs(VSA, lab automation) Helped create the keynote demo for the announcement of the VPlex at EMCWorld 2010 (vSphere Plugin, automation scripts, Teleportation GUI, performance tuning).
I had just spent the last two days in Atlanta helping the rocking vSpecialist team redesign their lab network. This is the granddaddy of all the vSpecialist labs with tons of great demos we use frequently (live or recorded). They have grown so much they actually outgrew their [...]
Continue reading A little bit of good news : VMware vExpert
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nick on
Wednesday, 19th of May 2010 at 09:12:08 AM
What is better than UBER?
UBER version 2.
It has only been 19 days since the original release of the Celerra VSA UBER edition for the masses. The response has been overwhelming and encouraging. And out of that appreciation I am excited to present the Celerra VSA UBER V2 (version 2). It has a host of new features and now features the combined input of the vSpecialist team to put the shine on it.
If you are not familiar with the original feature list with the first UBER version, then go here first.
Here are the new features and enhancements in UBER Version 2:
Even shorter initial setup Better network configuration. Removal of old style Control Center config from original VSA (Thanks to Eric Hollis & Kevin Z for help) Besser UBER : Celerra VSA UBER v2
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nick on
Saturday, 10th of April 2010 at 04:25:19 PM
The greatest difference between the virtual data center and the cloud is how it is consumed. The greatest obstacle to the cloud can be a lack of synergy in how it is created.
Picture the house from the movie Up. In many ways I see the true innovation that will create the cloud and enable true infrastructure as a service (IaaS) as being a bit like this house. The effort to abstract infrastructure from physical and operational dependencies is like the effort of Carl, trying to free his house from its place attached to the earth. The breaking of this boundary is the demand for a better way to provide a service to business needs; to really provide infrastructure as a consumable service that truly aligns to financial and process models more effectively. Or, in a simple word: The Cloud.
The effort to break these dependencies [...]
Continue reading Up In The Clouds : Helium not Hot Air
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nick on
Sunday, 14th of March 2010 at 09:06:24 AM
One of my favorite vExperts, David Davis, made a video walk-through the vSphere Mini Monitor [...]
Continue reading vSphere Mini Monitor : New Video by David Davis
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Leon Bailie on
Saturday, 13th of March 2010 at 06:13:45 PM
VMware Lab Manager offers a way to fence off a server configuration so you can clone many of the same configurations into the environment without having to re-IP or reset MAC addresses. [...]
Continue reading VMware Lab Manager : How to build a fence
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