Archive for February, 2011


And this time its not because I’ve passed a certification , in fact I recently sat the beta for the new VMware Certified Associate , Desktop exam – covering much of the things a VMware View 4.5 Admin would do on a day to day basis. Not being a View admin I found it a little harder than that , but time will tell 🙂

 

The reason for new cards is a change of role – I might have let it slip on twitter / linked in during my notice period that I was moving on from my current position with Delloite to pastures new. I won’t be eating one of my former blogs , which may or may not be gently poking fun at the “bloggers in bowling shirts” from EMC either as I’m still not a vSpecialist! I’ve had a fantastic 4 and a bit years in my current role , taking my from “just another windows engineer” to really finding my niche in virtualisation and a bit of a segway into social media!

I shall be starting tomorrow with ONI , one of the UK’s fastest growing Cisco Partners as a project engineer within the Datacenter Team. I have some pretty big boots to fill as the rest of the team all hold the Cisco CCIE certification , so as the token non-networky guy, I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a little apprehensive about working with quite such a smart team ! With the two VCAP exams under my belt , I’d like to think that a VCDX will show that I’m capable of running at the same speed.

I will still be continuing to blog and record the podcast , hopefully with some new experiences as I get to grips with the UCS range of Kit and some equally shiny storage to hook it up to. While I’ve had a great time as an infrastructure architect , I am missing getting my hands dirty with systems so the change is very much welcome.

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Yesterday was a particularly busy day for me , not only was I presenting on the trials and tribulations of trying to migrate 700 VM’s across the Atlantic but the latest episode of the vSoup podcast went live – Ed, Christian and myself were joined by Bob Plankers for an informal natter about networking , books and certifications. Head over the vSoup page for your serving..

 

http://vsoup.net/2011/02/vsoup-big-fat-pipes-with-bob-episode-4-2/

 

If you would like to have a peak through my slide desk from the VMUG presentation , I’ve embedded it below. As for the shirt, it’s a beta test for Simon Long , who was sadly not able to make it to the Meeting , but he was with us via the medium of pink shirts Winking smile