Category Archives: General

The eagled eyed will have spotted a rash of excitement over the virtualisation twitterverse.  The VCAP5-DCD exam enters it’s beta phase this month. Current VCAP4-DCD holders who have also completed the VCP5 certification have been invited to take part.  Since … Continue reading →

It’s 2012 and we’re back.  Time for vBeers in Auckland.  Come and talk geek with a beer in your hand.  Looks for the vBeers sign and say hi, we don’t bite newcomers. All the details on vBeers web site © … Continue reading →

One of the hardest parts of designing a virtual infrastructure for VDI is getting the storage right.  This is where the price of doing VDI can become very obvious so it’s tempting to try to cut costs.  Unfortunately not having … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday evening in New Zealand and I’m looking back over a somewhat surreal week.  The whole thing began just over three weeks ago with a tweet from Calvin Zito asking for independent bloggers who might want to know more … Continue reading →

I’m in Ft Collins Colorado for an HP Storage Tech Day.  This is my first sponsored community event and when Calvin Zito invited me I jumped at the chance to be here.  Getting to spend a couple of days surrounded … Continue reading →

If you follow virtualization blogs then you will have seen that Eric Siebert has opened voting for the top virtualization blogs.  This year I have entered both my blog and the APAC Virtualization Podcast.  Please cast your vote at vSphere … Continue reading →

I’m helping out some past students with a storage issue at a View implementation.  They need a question answered about moving between datastores when Tiered storage is in use.  Without Tiered storage it is fairly easy to add and remove … Continue reading →

The APAC Virtualization podcast is back for 2012.  The first session is all about the C word. Details are all on the Podcast Blog. © 2012, Demitasse. All rights reserved. This post first appeared on the Demitasse blog www.demitasse.co.nz

I am very pleased to announce that a series of VCAP Brownbag sessions is being started for the APAC region. For those who haven’t come across the ProfessionalVMware BrownBag they are a series of webinars started by Cody Bunch to … Continue reading →

Earlier I posted about the setup of my VCP5 study lab.  Today I’m going to cover the lab setup I used to study for the VCP4-DT exam. This is the Desktop certification that is all about deploying and configuring VMware … Continue reading →