Thank You for Your Votes!
2012 was a great year for me. I started a great gig at VCE. I moved to sunny Silicon Valley, and I got more serious about VMTrooper.com. After the blog languished with sparse postings in 2010-2011,...
View ArticleThe #vBrownBag Presenter Spotlight
It is great being part of the VMware User Community! Not only are VMware’s users a smart bunch, but they are also dedicated to giving back to the community and to helping out the new users who are...
View ArticleVCE Vision Intelligent Operations @ VMworld 2013!
My abstract for VCE’s new Vblock management APIs, VCE Vision™ Intelligent Operations, was accepted by the VMworld Committee. Not yet familiar with the VCE Vision software yet? Then, check out these...
View ArticleUCS Manager KVM and Java 7 Update 21
So, the Java 7 Update 21 notification popped on your screen. Go ahead and click it like normal, right? Not so fast! If you use the UCS Manager KVM utility on a regular basis, you will want to wait...
View ArticleVMware CloudCred Program
The VMware Communities Team recently launched a new way for the vCommunity to a have a little fun with the technologies they use on a regular basis as well as to to increase our overall understanding...
View ArticleLearn More About vSphere 5.5 and OpenStack
Two new books on Virtualization and Cloud launched recently, and I am really excited about them: Mastering vSphere 5.5 by Scott Lowe and Nick Marshall with Forbes Guthrie, Matt Liebowitz, and Josh...
View ArticleTop Virtualization Blogs Survey: 2014 Edition
Eric Siebert’s vSphere-land site has opened its polls for the 2014 Edition of the Top Virtualization Blogs survey. In 2013, I stepped up my contributions to the vBrownBag podcast and worked on a few...
View ArticleThoughts on VMware’s VCP Recertification Policy
VMware recently announced that the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Certification will have a recertification requirement effective March 10, 2014. It will be interesting to see how the vCommunity...
View ArticleI’m Already a Virtualization Expert. I Have to Understand Networking, Too?
IT organizations need their team members to develop skills from multiple domain areas of expertise (ex: Compute, Network, Storage, etc.). The rise in popularity of converged (and even hyper-converged)...
View ArticleVote for VMware Sessions at the OpenStack Tokyo Summit!
At this year’s Vancouver Summit, attendees were enthusiastic about VMware Integrated OpenStack as we drew standing room only crowds at all of my team’s talks. Building on that excitement, we are...
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