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Five Home and Work Lab Focused Sessions to Vote for at VMworld 2014
If you are reading this, you probably have a work or home lab that you use to test VMware products and solutions. The following five sessions are up for voting and focus on this such topic, showing a...
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Vote for any VMworld Session and Win a Package of VMware Press Books
Of course I hope you have voted for all of my sessions for VMworld, but you don’t have to vote for any of them in order to have a chance at winning some free books. There are 27 books in total spread...
View ArticleMy Brief VMworld Experience
New to VMware I had the chance to come out the week before VMworld and stay through Sunday night. While I unfortunately could not stay for the main festivities I did get to see and meet a lot of new...
View ArticleVMware’s VSAN in the Home Lab
Update:While my original plan of creating a VSAN datastore with just a single host worked, once I moved over subsequent VMs I experienced several issues. This is not a huge surprise, VMware recommends...
View ArticleObligatory End of Year Blog Post
It’s been a great year, but one that didn’t consist of a ton of blogging. I recently transitioned out of the day-to-day IT Engineer/admin role and into a technical marketing role. It is a new view at...
View ArticleThe Art of Working From Home
Working remotely can be one of the most challenging things you’ll do if you aren’t prepared. I’m talking about those of us that are a 100% remote employee and not the occasional work from home day....
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Rambling on Public Speaking , Creating Presentations, & PEX
One of my more recent personal/career goals is to get better at public speaking. When the opportunity to submit a session for PEX came up I jumped at the opportunity and I’ll now be presenting and...
View ArticleThe Aftermath of My PEX Presentation
In my previous post I talked about some of the preparation and worrying I went through for my upcoming PEX presentation. Last week I had the opportunity to deliver the session and wanted to add on a...
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Why Aren’t You Using Nested Virtualization ?
As someone who is leveraging nested virtualization for almost everything at this point, I often wonder what roadblocks people are running into, or if there is a reason they aren’t doing so. So tell me...
View ArticleSome Quick Thoughts on Presenting
Fresh out of TechEd, a couple of thoughts came to mind this week about how I could be more effective in the way I deliver a presentation. One of my big goals this year has been to throw myself in the...
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Turn the VMware vSphere Web Client into a Mac App
I personally am not a a fan of having a ton of browser tabs open at the same time, or applications at all for that matter. I find it easier to navigate applications on my mac if they have a pretty...
View ArticleThe Art of Working From Home
Working remotely can be one of the most challenging things you’ll do if you aren’t prepared. I’m talking about those of us that are a 100% remote employee and not the occasional work from home day....
View ArticleVMworld 2014 : Where I’ll Be At and What I’m Excited About
VMworld 2014 is just around the corner and I’m excited to get the opportunity to speak on a few occasions and experience and view session on others.This post is as much about shamelessly plugging a few...
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Rambling on Public Speaking , Creating Presentations, & PEX
One of my more recent personal/career goals is to get better at public speaking. When the opportunity to submit a session for PEX came up I jumped at the opportunity and I’ll now be presenting and...
View ArticleThe Aftermath of My PEX Presentation
In my previous post I talked about some of the preparation and worrying I went through for my upcoming PEX presentation. Last week I had the opportunity to deliver the session and wanted to add on a...
View ArticleProvisioning Nested vSphere Hosts with PowerCLI
A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to start automating a bit more of the provisioning I did for my test beds. One of the main requirements I had was to reduce the amount of interaction that was...
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Five SMB Focused Sessions You Should Vote for At VMworld
It is official, voting is open for VMworld sessions at http://www.vmworld.com/voting.jspa . If you’ve been through the list already you will notice that there are a lot of submissions that can drown...
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Five Home and Work Lab Focused Sessions to Vote for at VMworld 2014
If you are reading this, you probably have a work or home lab that you use to test VMware products and solutions. The following five sessions are up for voting and focus on this such topic, showing a...
View ArticleSo, You Want In On Technical Marketing?
I recently noticed some chatter on getting into technical marketing and I thought I’d share my thoughts. As someone who is now in technical marketing, but also wondered the same exact thing almost two...
View ArticleThe Aftermath of My PEX Presentation
In my previous post I talked about some of the preparation and worrying I went through for my upcoming PEX presentation. Last week I had the opportunity to deliver the session and wanted to add on a...
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