I first delved into the world of OpenStack about a year ago. I had heard it thrown around in meetings, and started seeing a fair bit about it on twitter. As I did more research I found out it began in 2010 as a research project between Rackspace and NASA. Which of course, only intrigued …
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A few months ago I decided to go all in on the vSphere Web Client. I was one of those people that wasn’t a huge fan of ESXi when the Service Console was dropped, so I decided to take a different approach here and embrace it. The verdict? I like it. A lot. I’ve gotten …
Welcome to the latest installment of the #VCAPorBUST series – aimed at preparing for VMware VCAP certifications. You can see the rest of the articles in this series here. Today we are going to talk about VMware DRS. If you are looking for a more general, easy to understand overview of DRS, be sure to …
While we were all chatting on #vBrownBag this week, Josh Atwell mentioned a crowd sourced novel by members of the community called Life In the Data Center, and asked me if I had considered doing anything like that for Virtual Design Master. Well, I sort of have. I’ve gotten a couple of comments on twitter asking …
This year, I joined the crew of the Virtual Design Master Challenge as the Creative Director, and I’ve been having a blast. Last year, I created the first vDM challenge, which involved the world being ruins after a zombie apocalypse, and making the competitors build infrastructure with five year old hardware. This, of course, is …
All of us VCAP-ers know how important our home labs are, so I wanted to give you all a rundown of mine, and how I configure it. I think it is important to have access to some sort of lab, whether it be physical or virtual. This gives us the opportunity to try things that …