Category Archives: General

I’m just wrapping up my first delivery of the vSphere Design Workshop, it’s a very different experience to the usual VMware courses.  Usually it’s a lecture and lab deal, where I tell students stuff and then they use the things … Continue reading →

We’ve just finished a very popular podcast session, around 30 people in the live recording.  Special guests were the legendary Duncan Epping and the more local and less widely known Andrew Mitchell,   I was just an ordinary guest since I’m … Continue reading →

This week’s roundtable will discuss the different certifications for the virtualisation industry and the VCDX (VMware Certified Design Expert) certification path. For this roundtable we will have three very special guests. Andrew Mitchell –  VMware vCLoud architect & VCDX Alastair … Continue reading →

I figure Andre has done the good work on getting the post together, so I lifted this from his blog.  It’s nice to collaborate on things, just a shame there doesn’t seem to be a blogging convention like the twitter … Continue reading →

The session last night with Nathan (@nathanm)and Stu (@stufox)from Microsoft was another interesting one.  For me the key takeaways were: Planning issues for virtualised environments are largely the same for different virtualisation platforms.  Sizing storage and network I/O is the … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing with a non-persistent Windows 7 Desktop pool under View 4.0.1 for a while and was struggling to get PCoIP to behave in Multi monitor mode.  It turns out the VMware SVGA video driver  for Windows 7 doesn’t … Continue reading →

Third posting in a row about the APAC podcast, must mean it’s nearly a month since I last posted anything technical. Our next guest is Nathan Mercer, a Technology Evangelist from Microsoft, he will talk with us about Hyper-V, Cluster … Continue reading →

Tonight will be my first time hosting the podcast, Andre is much busier now he’s at VMware consulting so I’m going to be organising and hosting a som eof the podcasts. This week’s guest is Michael Harries from Citrix Labs … Continue reading →

Subject: Cisco UCS with Steve Chambers Sydney (Australia) – 9PM Perth (Australia) – 6PM Hong Kong (Hong Kong) – 6PM Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) – 6PM Auckland (New Zealand) – 11PM London (UK) – 10AM Full details on myvirtualcloud.net While you’re … Continue reading →

Just like most VMware specialists I follow Duncan Epping’s Yellow-Bricks blog and am always impressed with the quality of the writing and technical content.  This week there was a guest post by Craig Risinger about the unexpected effect of using … Continue reading →