VMWorld 2016 I have been given the honor of being granted a VMWorld blogger pass. So I have made all my arrangements to be at VMWorld 2016. I will be spending most of my time around the Nutanix booth and the hang space. I hope I can catchup with most of my readers and close… Read More »
What is an underdog? The Merrian-Webster dictionary gives two definitions for underdog: a person, team, etc., expected to lose a contest or battle a less powerful person or thing that struggles against a more powerful person or thing The definition for kids is even better: a person or team thought to have little chance of… Read More »
How to migrate from Thick to Thin provisioned disks on a Nutanix cluster I have been doing a lot of conversion over the last couple of months. This is one mistake I have come across in the field. Below is the description of each type of provisioning. NAME DESCRIPTION Eager Zeroed Thick An eager zeroed… Read More »
Will I hate my job? I have received several comments over the last couple weeks, after I started a new job. When will you get tired of this job and start putting it down? Grow-up?!?!? You will never be happy in a career… I am not going to bring up old companies or employers. There were a lot… Read More »
CISCO has announced HyperFlex The new CISCO HyperFlex solution will be added on to their current product offerings. In 2016 the hyper-converged industries will be around a $1.9 billion dollars industry. Nutanix is slated to be their main competition within this industry. The current traditional Integrated systems account for $7.2 billion dollars. CISCO has been getting… Read More »
What happened to EVO:Rail? This morning I was reading an article called EVO:Fail. You can ready it here. When VMware announced that EVO:RAIL was the way that they would compete with companies like Nutanix or SimpliVity. I took a long look into how and why. At VMWorld this year I asked around about how many people… Read More »
2015 I saw Rene Van Den Bedem post on his 2015 accomplishments. I figured that I need to do something similar. Thanks Rene! Here are my accomplishments for 2015: Continued to blog Competed in the Virtual Design Master contest I was not the vDM Master but I learned a lot Awarded VMware vExpert, CISCO Champion,… Read More »
Performance Review and the frustration behind them In the workforce, there’s nothing that can causes so much fear and dread on the managers side and so much anger and resentment on the employees side than a performance review. We have all gone through these year-end reviews. If it is for ourselves or we were the manager giving the review.… Read More »
This will be my last post for #vDM30in30 The other side of my life has taken a lot of my free time. I will still continue working on my certifications and VCDX. There are a number of big projects that have started to take shape. As of right now, I am very limited on the time I… Read More »
Automate all things! The above tile came from Chris Wahl. As I continue my road to my #VCDX and technology in general, this quote still stands true. In today’s corporate world silo were built for the following reason: Regulatory Business Unit Interest Focus Project Focus When these silos were created they were for very good… Read More »