Recently, I have been having many conversations about the value of advanced and expert-level certifications and what you should focus on as an IT professional in the SDDC space. This got me thinking about how I would distill this into a general strategy that a fresh graduate could use to leverage and enhance their career in Information Technology.
Month: January 2018
Nutanix Software-Only Offering
Nutanix has been speaking publicly about their Software-Only offering for a while, but it was never formally announced. Today we had the NTC briefing for this offering, so here is the breakdown. Continue reading Nutanix Software-Only Offering
Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 8 – ESXi Driver Upgrade
This is part 8 of the Cisco UCS Configuration Guide, covering the upgrade of the Cisco UCS ESXi drivers using the vSphere Update Manager (vUM).
Continue reading Cisco UCS Configuration Guide – Part 8 – ESXi Driver Upgrade
VMware NSX-v 6.4 Released
VMware has released version 6.4.0 of NSX for vSphere. The information below is straight from the release notes. A lot of new goodness has been added around DFW services and I was pleased to note that the NSX UI plugin for the HTML5 vSphere Client is included. Another interesting feature is IPv6-to-IPv4 NAT (NAT64) has been added to the ESG.
The Enterprise Cloud Bell Curve
This set of questions comes up a lot in conversations with my customers, “What should my Enterprise Cloud look like? Should I stick with Private Cloud, should I go Hybrid Cloud or put everything into the Public Cloud? Which Public Cloud provider is the best?” It is a confusing time for enterprises developing their cloud strategies and my answer invariably is “it depends”, because every customer is a snow-flake with completely different business goals, business problems and constraints to be met. Continue reading The Enterprise Cloud Bell Curve
VCDX – VMware Premier Partner Level Requirement?
There have been observations within the VCDX community, that unless the VCDX count breaks 1,000 within 10 years, it will fade into obscurity. These anecdotal figures were derived from the CCIE program which Cisco built as the first elite certification program within the networking industry. We are approaching a decade of VCDX and the current count is 265, obviously very well short of 1,000. And of those 265 VCDXs, 38 are double VCDX and 5 are triple VCDX at this time. To date, no-one has achieved quadruple VCDX. It is also interesting to note, that only 8 companies world-wide have 4 or more VCDX on-staff (with VMware, Nutanix and Dell Technologies being the top three respectively).
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1 Million Views
I noticed yesterday that I hit one million views at vcdx133.com after 3 years of blogging and 291 posts. Thank you to everyone that reads this blog, I hope this site continues to provide value to you.
My most popular all time posts are:
- vSphere 6.0 Basics – Part 4 – vCenter Server Install with Windows Server 2012 R2
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