During VMworld a couple of announcements were made about the vExpert Awards which not many people seem to have blogged, except for Mike Laverick that is. As many of you know 300 people received this award during VMworld Europe 2009. During VMworld 2009 in San Francisco there was a vExpert “Session” hosted by John Troyer. John invited Steve Herrod for [...]

A couple of months ago during the VMTN podcast I shared an idea with John Troyer and Edward Haletky. I thought that it would be cool to have a demo environment at the community booth where the vExperts could show there skills. After some discussions with the VMworld Team I decided to start building a lab and John Troyer asked [...]

VMworld Europe 2009 came to an end on Thursday. I finally traveled back on Friday, after a 5 hour delay. I’m sorry I haven’t been able to write any technical content but you can’t imagine how busy I’ve been. I’ve gathered all useful links and added them to this post. But just to give you an idea what I was [...]

The first names are being dropped on Twitter as we speak. Scott Herold(VMGuru.com), Eric Siebert(VMware Land) and Eric Sloof(NTPro.nl) are the names I’ve seen so far that have won the vExpert award. I can honestly say that all three more than deserve it! They live, eat and breath VMware and virtualization in general! Congrats to all of you that will [...]

Today is your last chance to nominate your favorite VMTN Moderators or Virtualization Bloggers(PlanetV12n or not) for the vExpert award: VMware vExperts are recognized for their service to the greater virtualization community. We’ve gotten a number of applications and nominations from both inside and outside of VMware. If you would like to apply yourself or nomination someone for consideration, the deadline [...]

I already announced it yesterday, but the Nomination form actually was released today. John wrote a great blog article on vExpert of which the following is an outtake: If you aren’t active in online places like the VMware Communities or the blogs, or if you aren’t active in your local virtualization community, then this award isn’t for you. However, if [...]

I dropped the news about the VMware Virtualization Professional Program a couple of weeks ago. It was supposedly to be opened up today for voting. Unfortunately it has been postponed atleast 18 hours. But John Troyer just announced the official name VMware vExpert. Wouldn’t you want to become a vExpert!?!