Month: July 2014

VMworld 2014 – VCDX Program Announcements

With John Arrasjid’s permission, I talked about this during the “VCDX Prep” vBrownbag EMEA Podcast in May 2014.  Following on from that podcast, be expecting more information on the following during VMworld 2014:

  1. VCAP/VCDX Boot Camps – 8 hours, will include NV track (NSX), launch by VMworld 2014 (Free)
  2. New book -> “Art of Infrastructure Design, A Practical Guide for IT Architects” – Q4 2014 (By John Arrasjid & co.)
  3. VCDX Mentor Program – 3 month program, 4 hours per month (Free – 32 VCDX Volunteers)
  4. Update to Design Workshops – 3-4 Hours, now using VCDX design methodology (Conferences & Events – Cloud, vSphere, SRM etc.)
  5. Infrastructure Design Workshop – 1-2 Days, offered at VMworld 2014 (Fee based) – Professional Level Class
  6. Infrastructure Design Course – 4-5 days, similar to AcademyX, but without the design requirement (Fee based) – Advanced Level Class
  7. AcademyX – 4-5 days, for candidates with a design, launch by VMworld 2014 (Fee based) – Masters-Level Class

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VMworld 2014 – vCAC Reference Architecture for Healthcare

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi will be co-presenting their vCAC reference architecture with Shiv Diddee, VMware MENA TAM Leader, at VMworld.  Hany Michael was the VMware PSO Solutions Architect for this project and is also known for his personal technology blog hypervizor.com.

If you want to learn about how vCAC can be applied to the healthcare industry then sign up!  See you at VMworld.

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VMworld 2014 – VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast #289

Yesterday I was very lucky to be a guest on the VMware Communities Roundtable Podcast (iTunes) to talk about my joint VMworld session with Paul Chambre:

If you want to learn about how to use the VMware vCloud Management suite for configuration and compliance audits then sign up!  See you at VMworld.

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VMworld 2014 – Marvin, I want to meet you!

Marvin A few months ago there was a picture of the “Marvin” poster from the “VMware campus” tweeted by @Cocquyt.  In a recent post by Technodrone, @maishsk picked up on the VMworld VMCI session, aka “Marvin”:

Very exciting stuff, I cannot wait to meet “Marvin” and am very interested in hearing about VMware’s first foray into the hardware arena.  Some of the questions I have:

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Virtual Design Master – Support it!

vDM You may be aware of the Virtual Design Master competition which is currently in Season 2.  The event theme is based upon the “Zombie Apocalypse”, where you are given a set of business requirements and you have 4 days to develop a design with limited resources that is then assessed by the judging panel.  Each season has three challenges with eliminations and then a finale to determine the winner.  I was so impressed by the competition that I sponsored it with my own time and money.  I urge you to do the same, the more we support community events such as these, the greater the benefit to the community, thus producing great architects.

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PowerCLI – How do I use it?

PowerCLI is an incredible tool that you can use to automate many of your operational procedures, particularly useful if you are constrained by budget and you are competent in scripting with Windows PowerShell.  This post covers setting up and using PowerCLI, the operational risks entailed, how to use Virtu-al.net’s vCheck script and a “Delete Snapshot, notify by email” script.

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