Monthly Archives: May 2007

Every class I teach something interesting comes from the students in the class, so I thought I’d start to share these. Last week I taught in Auckland and early on in the course we discussed VMware converter and the HAL … Continue reading →

Jeff Jennings delivered a keynote about operational readiness, this is the conversion of virtualisation from a project oriented implementation to a core technology within the organisation. Jeff handed over to Thomas Walker for a quick demo of Pocket ACE (keep … Continue reading →

I talked to Callum Russell, Senior Marketing Manager AP for VMware, yesterday about the low number of people sitting the VCP exam and the low pass rate. Worldwide about a third of the people who attend the VI3 Install and … Continue reading →

My highlight session of the day was Jacob Jensen talking about high performance networking. Particularly talking about making the fact that there is a virtual switch in place as invisible as possible and the importance of VLANs in NIC count … Continue reading →

I’m here and the crowd is starting to build. It’s the usual BD coffee and pastries for breakfast, accompanied by people catching up with each other.I was pleased to see that there appear to be nearly as many VCP’s on … Continue reading →

Tickets and hotel are booked, a couple of meetings booked too, catching up with other local VCIs. I wanted to get mobile with blogging, mixing my other favourite tech, mobility, with VMware is always fun.  Looking around using the great … Continue reading →