2011 was a great year for me from a career / blogging perspective. I moved over from the delivery side (PSO/Cloud Practice) to the “marketing” side. I used quotes as it is technical marketing and our focus is technical enablement. I was a speaker at both VMworld Las Vegas and VMworld Copenhagen. Of course the publication of our new book, [...]

The four randomly picked winners of the free book are: Greg Hetrick - comment 30876 Kalle Lund – comment 30929 Fernando - comment 31170 Adam Eckerle - comment 31230 Each of you will receive an email from me shortly asking for your address. I will still need to get Frank to sign them but promise I will ship them asap! Once again, thanks everyone [...]

This month four years ago I created my own blog. Yes indeed, Yellow-Bricks.com had its 4th birthday this month. I want to thank all of you for contributing to the success of Yellow-Bricks by commenting / emailing / tweeting etc. As a token of my appreciation I want to give away 4 copies (paper version) of the vSphere 5 Clustering [...]

I just noticed that my friend Bilal over at cloud-buddy.com has a nice Christmas challenge up on his blog! You can win a free VMware Workstation license and a 365 day eval license and a couple of e-books! Worth checking out in my opinion, give it a shot… you might be the lucky one. Free vSphere 5 goodies for vGeeks – [...]

I had a question from one of my colleagues last week about Isolation Response and IP Storage. His customer has an ISCSI storage infrastructure and recently implemented a new vSphere environment. When one of the hosts was isolated virtual machines were restarted and users started reporting strange problems. What happened was that the HA Isolation Response was configured to “Leave [...]

I had a question last week about multi NIC vMotion. The question was if multi NIC vMotion was a multi initiator / multi target solution. Meaning that, if available, on both the source and the destination multiple NICs are used for the vMotion / migration of a VM. Yes it is! It is complex process as we need vMotion to [...]

A couple of weeks back I received the news that one of the sessions I submitted was accepted for VMware Partner Exchange 2012. PEX is held in Las Vegas from the 13th til the 16th of February. There’s an excellent program again. Make sure to check the full list here. If you haven’t signed up yet, do it quick as [...]