That’s right As of today I’m certified in Citrix XenServer, VMware VI3 and I’m now Hyper-V certified. Took the test for the latter this morning – 070-652 – one of the easiest virtualization certification tests I’ve ever done… My CV has been updated accordingly.
Posts from ‘October, 2008’
VMware High Availability, free, part 3
This is an expansion/update to part 2 – as always caveat emptor In part 2, I showed a way to generate the files, containing the vmx files manually – now we’ll do it automatically, without generating any files whatsoever. This HA cluster, is substantially more advanced. In an HA cluster, if ESX cannot see a [...]
Updated: Cooking your own ESX/Modifying the ESX installation media
Hi, Thanks to a couple of posters from VM4RU, and specifically 3apa3a-b-ta3e, I have updated my post Cooking your own ESX/Modifying the ESX installation media to include apcpusd for network shutdown of APC PowerChute devices. The configuration is still left up to the installer, but at least it’s integrated into the ESX install and generic [...]
VMware partnerexchange – Sydney, Australia
I’m at the VMware partnerexchange day at the Darling Harbour-based Sydney Convention Centre, and just watched the Hypervisors – Understanding the Differences presentation, and it just seems to me that VMware are literally trying to push shit up-hill. Yes, we’re all aware that feature-wise VMware is better. Most performance benchmarks I’ve seen show that VMware [...]
Cooking your own ESX/Modifying the ESX installation media
I’m pretty sure this hasn’t been done before in the VMware blogosphere, so I’m rather proud of myself for thinking of it. Now that I’m done with the self-congratulatory wankery (excuse the language – I’m an Australian), lets do this. But first an explanation: Every person wants to make a difference with their ESX installs, [...]