This post is about my experience over the past 10 years of promoting and progressing virtualisation and cloud automation within the Middle East (Saudi Arabia in particular). However, people are people, wherever you are on this spinning globe we call Earth, these lessons apply everywhere. Continue reading Promoting Cloud Automation within your Organisation
IBM PowerVM Design for a VCDX
If you are unfortunate enough to be tasked with the design and implementation of an IBM PowerVM virtualisation environment for System p and you normally work with vSphere, then this is the post for you. This entry has been written as a high-level overview of PowerVM and provides context via vSphere comparisons. Continue reading IBM PowerVM Design for a VCDX
VCDX – The Submission
You have picked the date for your Defence, where the Design submission is 60 days before. As the date approaches, you start counting days and estimating hours of effort to complete your submission. You start pulling all nighters to get things done; there do not seem to be enough hours in each day. On a regular basis, you will be tempted to give up; it is too much effort, but you have come so far, so you push through and make it happen. Continue reading VCDX – The Submission
VCDX – D-Day
Loads of cash, months of effort and planning, hundreds of hours of preparation is now culminating in a two hour session before “THE PANEL.” This is it, “DO OR DIE.” It is easy to freak yourself out at this stage. Continue reading VCDX – D-Day
VCDX – The Presentation
Your presentation should be no more than 60 slides. No two presentations are the same, it should be tailored to help YOU speak and deliver a continuous flow of information. So do not stress if your Study Group members have different content/formats to yourself. Continue reading VCDX – The Presentation
VCDX Study Plan – Compute & vSphere
I was not going to bother with this final Study Plan post, since all VCDX candidates should know this as their first port of call, however I wanted to provide a complete set of “VCDX Study Plan” posts. Continue reading VCDX Study Plan – Compute & vSphere
VCDX Study Plan – BC/DR
Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery will be the weakest point for most VCDX candidates; I know it was for me, I flopped miserably during my first VCDX attempt. So make it your strongest point, become a Disaster Recovery guru. Continue reading VCDX Study Plan – BC/DR
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