Yellow Bricks

by Duncan Epping

Archives for 2009

Join VMware Professional Services NOW!

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Most of you know that I’m a VMware employee. To be more precise I’m a VMware PSO Senior Consultant. PSO stands for “Professional Services Organisation”:

The global VMware Professional Services Organization (PSO) influences the success of each VMware implementation. The PSO team is dedicated to the success of the customer and their virtualization strategy and implementation. The PSO team ensures that VMware customers are successfully implementing their business plans from adoption all the way to a fully functioning virtualized data center. The VMware PSO team includes Implementation/Managed Services, Project/Engagement Management, Education Services, Partner Management and Technical Account Management (TAM) Services.

Our department is responsible for delivering custom projects, jumpstarts, training and more. As you can imagine it’s a real challenge, and it’s exciting to work for a company like VMware.

Where most companies are cutting down on workforce VMware PSO is still expanding. We are looking for Technical Account Managers and (Senior) Consultants. If you are curious what a Consultant or a TAM does visit this section of the PSO website on the VMware.com website.

Here we go:
Technical Account Manager – Russia
Technical Account Manager – Belgium (Must speak French and English)
Technical Account Manager – Norway
Senior Consultant – Russia
Consultant – Austria
Senior Consultant(VDI) – Italy
Senior Consultant – Italy
Senior Consultant – Italy
Senior Consultant – Sweden
PSO Manager – Eastern Region

If you think you are up for the challenge, are looking for a new job and want to work for one of the best and fastest growing Technology Companies in the world send me an email and I will get you in contact with the right people within VMware.

Site Recovery Manager Client Patch

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Yesterday VMware released a patch for the Site Recovery Manager Client:

Client Patch for Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1
This client patch for Site Recovery Manager 1.0 Update 1 corrects a performance problem observed at sites that support more than seven ESX hosts.

If you are running SRM, it might worth downloading the patch and installing it! The download page contains a section on how to apply this patch, besure to read it cause it’s not a case of “next, next, finish”.

How to use trusted certificates with SRM

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When we were playing around with Site Recovery Manager last week we had the opportunity to ask a bunch of questions to Lee Dilworth. Lee is a Specialist System Engineer for Site Recovery Manager. During the discussion Lee told us about a document that Horst Mundt, also a VMware employee, wrote about using trusted certificates. We received the document via email and I wanted to share this with you. After a quick search on the internet I noticed that Horst already uploaded his document to VI:OPS:

SRM establishes a secure connection between the protected and the recovery site.

There are two options for authentication: Credential based or certificate based.

If you install SRM into an existing environment, make sure to choose the method that is appropriate for your environment.

If you have not changed the default certificates that were installed by the VMware vCenter server setup then go for credential based authentication. You do not need to read the this document.

If you have installed SSL certificates issued by a trusted CA on your VMware vCenter servers then go for certificate based authentication. The document explains how certificates need to be setup in order for this to work.

VMware is expecting more than 5,000 attendees at VMworld…

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Just noticed the following press release:”VMware Announces Speaker and Exhibitor Lineups for VMworld Europe 2009“.

Europe’s Largest Virtualization Event Garners Broad Industry Support From Leading IT Vendors

FRIMLEY, England & PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jan. 14, 2009–VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that nine of the IT industry’s leading vendors have confirmed their participation at VMworld Europe 2009 as Platinum sponsors of the event. At the same time, the company announced that keynote addresses at the event will be headed by Paul Maritz, President and CEO of VMware; Dr. Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer, VMware; and Dr. Wolfgang Krips, Managing Director, SAP Hosting.

Headline sponsors of the second VMworld Europe conference have been confirmed as CA, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, NetApp and Symantec. VMware is the overall event sponsor of VMworld Europe 2009.

VMworld Europe 2009 will build on the success of the first VMworld Europe conference, which more than 4,500 delegates attended. This year, VMware is expecting more than 5,000 attendees at the Palais des Festivals in Cannes between 24-26 February. The event has rapidly become Europe’s largest virtualization forum. Alongside these nine Platinum sponsors, nearly 70 other exhibitors have confirmed their participation, bringing innovative virtualization offerings to the event, as well as a strong presence from vendors with traditional networking, storage, applications and security expertise.

5000, VMware expects 5000 attendees. If you didn’t sign up yet, go here!