May 2019 -

Home lab setup, part 1

May 31, 2019 Kim Bottu 2

Ah, we all do love our home labs and there are some pretty impressive ones out there. But for my own needs, I can run almost everything nested, so I saw no need to invest “that much” money. Currently my home lab exists out of a single Supermicro E300 9D 8CN8TP node. Hardware Some people have asked me how I have set it up. So here is a small blog post about my current setup. Hardware:– 1 x Supermicro SYS-E300-9D-8CN8TP– 1 x Sandisk Ultrafit 32GB USB 3.0– 1 x Samsung PM883 240 GB SATA 2.5″ 1.3DWPD– 1 x Samsung 970 EVO 1 TB NVMe M2 80mm – 2 x Crucial 64 GB ECC DDR4-2666 LR-DIMM, ECCI do have a second […]

Your Guide To A Successful Presentation

May 28, 2019 Stijn Depril 0

This blog post will cover a small guide to a successful presentation. In my day to day life I’m talking in front of small and bigger groups of people on a weekly basis. I really get a kick out of presenting. I get a lot of energy out of it and I’m sure not everyone is made for public speaking. However when I look back to my time in school I was always completely stressed out when I needed to present. You all know how that goes. Your throat feels strange. You can’t remember your words. You are cutting the chase and you forget half of your story. Yes that was me in school and when I started working I […]

VMUG BE

May 27, 2019 Stijn Depril 0

VMUG – VMware User Group in Belgium is upon us. This event is a great opportunity to get yourself updated on recent announcements shared by VMware but also users sharing their story with VMware technology. This year the agenda is packed with excellent topics. I’m really looking forward to all of them! 2 sessions I’m really looking forward too are underneath. One is the session from Johan Van Amersfoort – VDI by day, compute by night. I was already at 2 events where Johan was presenting this topic. On both events I couldn’t make it due to other responsibilities at that moment. I’m really planning to attend this one. I’m sure this will be a great session that might “mindshift” […]

NLVMUG / UserCon videos on-line

May 8, 2019 Stijn Depril 0

One of the biggest VMUG gatherings in the world is the one in the UserCon in the Netherlands. Over 800 people visited this Usercon this year. On the agenda this year were Duncan Epping, Jad El-Zein, Frank Denneman, Kit Colbert. These rockstars presented well attended sessions or keynotes. The agenda was packed with great sessions this year. I shared the stage with my colleague in the Netherlands. We prepared and presented the sessions. Since last week you can find all sessions on-line. For our English readers and viewers – The sessions are in Dutch 💁‍♂️ VSAN – What you always wanted to know This sessions intent was to bring the general public up to speed with VSAN. In 45 minutes […]

vSphere 6.7 Design Cookbook – Review #VCDX #VCAP #vSphere #Design

May 6, 2019 Bilal Ahmed 3

Disclaimer I own the two previous versions of this book and have used them extensively and I was given a free copy of this book to review. I also know one of the authors @VirtuallyMikeB well and he assisted me on my VCDX journey too. So this book is split up into multiple chapters, and I am going to break them down a bit more. I hope this will give you a better idea of what this book is all about and if it is something you would consider buying. Chapter 1: The Virtual Data Center So this chapter focuses on some of the basics, which you will probably already know if you are reading this book. Things like the […]