NSX-T is the next major evolution in VMware’s Software Defined Networking. The VMware Validated Design team constantly looks for solutions that will bring value to our customers. As NSX-T is one of those solutions we wanted to bring it into the design in such a way as to not disrupt existing customers deployments, which are based on NSX for vSphere.…
One of my friends, Shawn Mansour, that was on the Mission Trip to Project Samuel in Zambia this past July put together this awesome video. It’s a great way for me to remember the trip and I hope it gives anyone who is thinking about doing one in the future a sense of how awesome the experience is for the…
If you’ve never been on a mission trip I highly encourage you to do so, this experience was one of the best of my life! Thank you to everyone who prayed for us and/or gave financially to help make this mission a reality! A team of seven of us headed out to Zambia on July 10th.
For as long as I can remember I was what you could call a non-believer or agnostic. As some of you know that changed for me around 6 months ago. It’s been a great change in my life & one I’m very excited & passionate about. I started attending church at Faithbridge & the people there have been nothing short of awesome!…
For the past 18 months I’ve been a Senior Consultant with the Cloud Infrastructure Management Professional Services Organization here inside of VMware. It’s been a great year and half and I’ve grown both professionally and personally by having the opportunity to work with some great customers, some who pushed me and some who made me pull some hair out. Back…
It’s that time of the year again, the difference this time for me is I’m looking to make my first appearance. Help me out by voting for my session, 4841 – From the field; Successfully designing and implementing vSphere 5.1 for High Availability. Public Voting is available here and is open until May 6th at 5 PM PDT.
I’ve been a bit distracted lately and wasn’t able to get this written up as soon as I would have liked, but in any case here is the final part in my three part series of setting vSphere 5.1 with vCenter Heartbeat and custom SSL certificates. Part one can be found here and part two here. The most important part…
Every time I go into a Site Recovery Manager engagement and we start talking about how the test functionality works I always get the question of how to make a domain controller available to the test network. I always say I have a script for that, so I thought I’d share it with anyone who might need it. The script…
I’ve been working with a pretty big client the last couple weeks planning and upgrading around 20 vCenter 4.1 servers to 5.0 Update 2. This client runs all their databases on Oracle, currently version 10.2.0.4. I checked out the Interoperability Matrixes and found that 10.2.0.4 is supported for vCenter 5.0 Update 2. This client also uses the Oracle 11g client.…
