I still owed you guys something. Here’s the list of the people that where awarded the VCDX certification during the VMware TS vSummit 2009 in San Francisco: John Arrasjid (US) Mostafa Khalil (US) Kamau Wanguhu(US) Andrew Hald (US) Mahesh Rajani (US) Craig Risinger (US) Duncan Epping (Netherlands) Richard Damoser (Germany) The vSummit award dinner was on Wednesday evening. Unfortunately Spencer [...]

On twitter John Troyer retweeted a question a couple of days ago which basically came down to the following: When your VM which contains the license server goes down and has been down for longer then 14 days you will not be able to actually boot it up. This is because the grace period has expired. As a VMware PSO [...]

Eric Sloof just posted that a beta of the Design Exam, which is part of the VCDX Certification, is available as of now. VMware is pleased to announce the availability of the Design Exam (beta).  I can take the exam at Pearson VUE Professional Centers in London, Frankfurt, Paris and Madrid. Only individuals who have successfully passed the Enterprise Administration Exam [...]

After reading Aaron‘s excellent articles(1, 2) on Scott Lowe’s Blog I remembered a discussion I had with a couple of co-workers. The discussion was about VMware HA Cluster design in Blade Environments. The thing that started this discussing was an HA “problem” that occurred at a customer site. This specific customer had 2 Blade chassis to avoid a single point [...]