Today with all the pomp and circumstance they rightly deserve VMware announced that vSphere 5 and all its wonderful glory will be “GA” (Generally Available) in August. I thought I would write a short blog and call out some of the coolest features, at least to me, that will be in vSphere 5. First and […]
Read More really cool things in vSphere5It seems that July is turning into VMware Month. The amount of information that will be rolling out of VMware in the next 2 weeks is mind blowing. Just to make sure nothing gets lost in your inbox I’ve pulled together some of the most interesting dates you need to make sure you circle in […]
Read More VMware Events in JulyOne of the things that I really love about my role as a vSpecialist is my opportunity to meet with prospects and customers and talk about all the integration points EMC has with VMware. vSphere is such a cool product and what makes it even cooler is the types of integration our products have together. […]
Read More The Ever Changing World of AdminsSo, I’ve been having a pretty great week and then it just got SOOOO much better when this e-mail arrived in my vTexan inbox !! Dear Tommy Trogden, We’re pleased to designate you as a vExpert 2011 as recognition of your contributions to the VMware, virtualization, and cloud computing communities. You’ve done work above and […]
Read More VMware vExpert 2011So I’ve never run into this in my home lab (yet), but I have run into this in our EMC Demo lab once. I decided that I should blog about it just in case someone else runs into this or even better, so I don’t’ forget 🙂 Here is the story: Someone in the lab cloned […]
Read More Quick fix to an AD issue with a VMThis year marks the first year I’ve submitted a presentation abstract to vmworld. I actually submitted 3 🙂 Go big, or go home right !! I made it through the first pass, and now it’s on to the open vote. I thought I would pull together the three topics I’ve submitted with a brief abstract […]
Read More Time to vote for VMworld presentationsThis month marks my 6 months at EMC, and more specifically as a vSpecialist and what better way to celebrate then to get an opportunity to work at the #vLabs at EMC World. First I want to thank Jeff Thomas as well as Chris Horn and his merry Tech Enablement Team for the opportunity to […]
Read More EMC World ReviewI just recently added a 2TB iomega ix2 “Cloud Edition” to my VMware Home Lab and have been pretty impressed with some of its upgrades. As I noted in my last VMware Home Lab blog post I’ve been using another ix2 NFS for my datastores and have been wanting to add iSCSI to it the […]
Read More Adding iomega iSCSI to your home VMware LabI just got back from San Diego this week where I was helping out in the “Hands on Lab” at the local VMware User Group meeting. What a fantastic turnout !! I think I heard they had over 250+ attendee’s and lots and lots of VMware focused vendors. The lab was a great success and […]
Read More Introducing the vLabs at EMC WorldI’ve been a vSpecialist for about 5 months now and I’m starting to feel like I’m getting my legs under me. Don’t get me wrong, I still have a lot to learn but DAMN this is a great job !! BUT, moving from a 200+ company to one with close to 50,000 has its unique […]
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