The 3 “not-to-miss” EUC Sessions at VMworld 2018 Europe

October 25, 2018 Frederiek Vanhoornick 0

VMworld 2018 in Barcelona is almost there. I am really excited because there will be some exciting new things to tell. Most of you will already have built up your agenda based upon the content catalog.  But I wanted to give you my 3 “not-to-miss” EUC sessions. Hurry up and register, because places are limited. If you have to choose one session then look no further: This is THE ONE The Digital Workspace Keynote: End User Computing and Mobility Live! [DW3727KE] There has never been a better time to be working in the field of End User Computing. Companies and organizations are putting new investment into mobile technologies and digital tools to increase employee engagement scores, drive productivity, transform business processes […]

Cisco CyberOps CCNA #CyberOps #CCNA #Security #CyberSecurity

October 25, 2018 Bilal Ahmed 0

So now that I have completed and passed this new CCNA. I thought I would write up a blog post about the whole process. Over the last couple of years, Cisco was giving away free online scholarships for this new certification they were releasing. They provided you with the online materials and gave you a voucher to sit each exam twice for free once you had completed all the relevant online coursework. I had postponed it multiple times due to various other things (VCDX/Linux training etc). This was the final run, if I didn’t do it now there was no opportunity to do it again, so I thought why not I have nothing to lose and a lot to gain! […]

Why the vExpert PRO program is important

October 18, 2018 Kim Bottu 0

Over the last couple of days I have heard and have read a lot of negative feedback about the vExpert PRO program. I don’t really want to go in on this because people are entitled to voice their opinion and we don’t always have to agree on everything. Instead, let me tell you why I think this program is important and why I think it is an added value. Four years ago, blogging and public speaking were the last things on my mind. I was too shy and too afraid of running the risk of making a fool of myself in public to even dare anything publicly. But along came Ariel Sanchez. (Yes, that guy again! He is like a […]

vROPS 7.0 SDDC Health Monitoring Solution Management Pack 5.0 – Support for NSX 6.4.1?

October 15, 2018 Kim Bottu 1

This is just a quick post to show that vROPS 7.0 and the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution 5.0 Management Pack for vROPS, is able to monitor NSX for vSphere 6.4.1 despite the fact that NSX 6.4.1 is not officially supported in combination with the SDDC Management Pack 5.0.  Of course the best way forward is to upgrade NSX to a supported version. The following list contains the supported VMware products and the supported versions of those products for the SDDC Health Monitoring Solution Management Pack 5.0. VMware vCenter Server 6.0 U1/U2/U3 latest patch, 6.5.x, and 6.7 VMware NSX for vSphere 6.2.8, 6.2.9, 6.3.5, 6.3.6, 6.4.2, and 6.4.3 VMware vRealize Automation 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5 VMware vRealize Operations Manager 7.0 VMware […]

VCDX – Mock Design – How to attack it?!

October 13, 2018 Jason Grierson 1

Hey, Just wanted to make a quick blog post around some tips and tricks around the mock design question in the VCDX exam.  In the past this gets over looked due to prioritizing your presentation or not practiced enough.  I get a lot of feedback from VCDX candidates either stating this is where they felt they fell a little short in their first defense, or I get a lot of questions on how to attack it. My aim for this blog post is to help give some tips from my experience on how to attack the mock design question and as always generate conversation some good conversation around it.  As the more ways you see people attack it the better […]

vExpert PRO

October 10, 2018 Kim Bottu 0

Back in February I did send an email to Corey telling him that I didn’t understand that there were only a handful of vExperts in Belgium, a country similarly sized to the Netherlands, and that I wanted to encourage the program in Belgium and grow the numbers of vExperts. Hey Corey, Hopefully you are doing well and not too swamped with assessing all the VEXPERT applications. For the last couple of years I have been literally stunned by the underwhelming amount of VEXPERTS in Belgium. There are exactly 10. As a comparison: there are about 70 in the Netherlands, a similarly sized and populated country. So what is going on over here in Belgium? I have been thinking about how to increase the number […]

Security 101 Series – Volume 1

September 5, 2018 Don Ward 0

Hello again my old friends! Since my last post https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/career-20-don-ward/ I’ve been keeping my head down below the parapet as I’ve focused all of my efforts on all things security including Cyber. I’ve also been given an ear bending (aka nagging) from my fellow blog founders (Graeme cough cough) to put out more (giggedy – I mean blogs) so it’s time to surface once again. Standard caveats apply to this post in that these are my opinions at the time of writing, subject to change and do not necessarily reflect the same opinions of my current or past employers. Since joining my new organisation Atos as a principal Cyber Security Solutions Architect, the learning curve has been massive and the […]

Storage vMotion Thin to Thick Lazy Scripting #vExpert #PowerCLI #PowerShell #vSphere

August 29, 2018 Bilal Ahmed 1

Well hello, there party people! I recently came across an issue where the customer had just configured alerting to look for Thin Provisioned VMs, and to my and their dismay it came back with over 300 VMs across 2 sites in staging and production that were like this. Now they have Dell Compellent SANs and these Thin Provision at the storage layer too, so it was basically thin on thin! Now the key points here were: Let’s figure out why this happened Let’s fix the issue for the currently deployed VMs and for future deployments Now we did some digging and it appears the Devs and their automation scripting were the cause of the issue. In their scripts, they had it […]