Here’s the fifth book of my 8 book giveaway! This giveaway will run from 6/19/2013 – 7/3/2013. You have multiple ways to sign up. Use the widget below and register via email or Facebook Connect. Then, for extra entries, use the widget to tweet about the giveaway, follow me on Twitter, Facebook “Like” this post or do a +1 on Google. By doing all of those things, you’ll get up to 5 entries for the book and a better chance to win.
There is also a referral system in place where if you refer in a person who enters, you can earn an additional 5 entries for each person who enters.
For more details about other books and the drawing itself, see this post.
So, let’s see who can win this thing! (Side note: The widget might be a bit odd if you use IE. Chrome or Firefox seems to work just fine.)
(Your emails, or other contact information used to register will be kept private and not sold or shared.)
Restrictions:
- You must live in the United States or if you live internationally, be willing to pay any shipping costs over $10USD since this is coming out of my own pocket.
- If you already own the book, don’t try to win a book you’ve already got!
- Actually read the book, and not let it collect dust on your shelf next to your MCSE NT 4 books.
More details about the book here: Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere Deployments
Brian Watrous at VMware Education provides an overview on configuring distributed virtual switches, one of two options that vSphere virtual networking supports.
This week has been a good one. Earlier this week, I was notified that I was selected once again as a VMware vExpert for 2013. I was selected in 2012 as well and it’s a great program that VMware has. The community is great and I’ve been able to meet more people just as interested in virtualization as I am. For those unaware, VMware launched the vExpert award program in 2009 to recognize those who evangelize VMware virtualization “above and beyond” their job duties. John Troyer, helped get the program started and has helped it grow over the years. So thanks John for all you do!
I also booked my flight out to San Francisco for VCI Day/VMworld in August. I plan to hit at least 1 day of VMworld as well before coming back to Indy. Due to budget concerns at work, I am paying my own way out there this year. So I’ll be keeping an eye open for any good sponsored parties that might pop up. 
I was unable to go at all last year (moving) after going in 2009, 2010 and 2011 so I’m overdue. I’m a big fan of VMworld in SF over Vegas and I’ve never been to VCI Day at VMworld so I’m excited to meet some fellow VCIs!
If any of my readers are going to VMworld, get in touch, especially if you’re one of my students I’ve had in an online class. I always like to put a face to a name. Maybe we can schedule a meetup or something.
Ryan
Here’s the fourth book of my 8 book giveaway! This giveaway will run from 5/1/2013 – 5/15/2013. You have multiple ways to sign up. Use the widget below and register via email or Facebook Connect. Then, for extra entries, use the widget to tweet about the giveaway, follow me on Twitter, Facebook “Like” this post or do a +1 on Google. By doing all of those things, you’ll get up to 5 entries for the book and a better chance to win.
There is also a referral system in place where if you refer in a person who enters, you can earn an additional 5 entries for each person who enters.
For more details about other books and the drawing itself, see this post.
So, let’s see who can win this thing! (Side note: The widget might be a bit wonky if you use IE. Chrome or Firefox seems to work just fine.)
(Your emails, or other contact information used to register will be kept private and not sold or shared.)
Restrictions:
- You must live in the United States or if you live internationally, be willing to pay any shipping costs over $10USD since this is coming out of my own pocket.
- If you already own the book, don’t try to win a book you’ve already got!
- Actually read the book, and not let it collect dust on your shelf next to your MCSE NT 4 books.
More details about the book here: VMware vSphere: PowerCLI Reference
Summary:
The vCloud Networking and Security Fundamentals course covers VMware’s vision of a Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) and explains key features of vCloud Networking and Security Suite. This course also examines various methods for implementing vCloud Networking and Security.
- Format: Self-Paced
- Length: 1 Hour
Objectives:
- Communicate VMware’s vision of a SDDC
- Explain workload networking and security requirements
- Describe vCloud Networking and Security components
- Examine vCloud Networking and Security implementations
Outline:
The course consists of the following modules:
- vCloud Networking and Security Vision describes the challenges that vCloud Networking and Security addresses, its key concepts, and the customer benefits.
- vCloud Networking and Security Overview explains workload networking and security requirements, describes vCloud Networking and Security components, and explains vCloud Networking and Security purchasing options.
- vCloud Networking and Security Customer Use Cases examines how customers implemented vCloud Networking and Security into their environments.
It’s been a long time coming, but I’m heading back to Europe for a personal vacation and or holiday; feel free to use whichever term you prefer! Some of you may have known that in 2009, I backpacked throughout Europe for 17 days by myself and met travelers from all kinds of different countries. I visited London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Prague, Munich, Interlaken, Barcelona and Paris. It was a great experience and one I won’t forget. One of my favorite experiences (so many) was probably skydiving almost 15,000ft over the Swiss Alps on my birthday. It was surreal. Don’t believe me? Check out the proof below!
This time I’ll be bringing my wife. We’ve decided to visit two locations this time. Amsterdam being the first one and Rome being the second destination. We’ll arrive in Amsterdam the afternoon of June 8th after an overnight flight. Then flying to Rome on June 11th and coming back to the States on the 16th. We’re excited for the trip. I know I have readers from The Netherlands and Italy, so if anybody has any tips, good restaurants or hidden gems in either city, feel free to pass them along! I would appreciate any of them!
Ryan
If you’ve been putting off your VCP exam, you might want to knock it out before the end of June. Pearson Vue is offering 50% off on all VCP-Cloud, VCP5-DV, VCP5-DT and IaaS exams.
Use promo code VCP50.
More info: http://www.pearsonvue.com/vmware/getcertified/
I wanted to post a link to a great new whitepaper that was just released by Aidan Dalgleish.
Description:
VMware vCloud Director® enables enterprise organizations to build secure private clouds that dramatically increase datacenter efficiency and business agility. Coupled with VMware vSphere®, vCloud Director delivers cloud computing for existing datacenters by pooling vSphere virtual resources and delivering them to users as catalog-based services. It helps users build agile infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud environments that greatly accelerate the time to market for applications and the responsiveness of IT organizations.
Resiliency is a key aspect of any infrastructure—it is even more important in IaaS solutions. This technical paper was developed to provide additional insight and information regarding the use of VMware vSphere PowerCLI™ to automate the recovery of a vCloud Director–based infrastructure.
Read the case study at: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-vCloud-Directore-Infrastructure-resiliency-whitepaper.pdf
