I’m honored to announce that I’ve been recognized as a VMware vExpert for 2011. I’m definitely in great company; quite a number of my fellow vExperts are folks that I look up to both professionally and personally. Many thanks go out to those who nominated me, voted for me, and encouraged me all along the […]
Improving Your Career With Social Media (or, How To Learn To Stop Worrying And Love The Twitter)
Recently, a friend of mine found out he was in need of a new job, and asked me if I had any leads. I didn’t, at least not for his area and desired position. I did have one suggestion, which was to get on Twitter. His response, “Thanks, I hadn’t thought of that!” That got […]
Some tips for writing your first PowerShell cmdlets & modules
A while back, I wrote a bit of a rant about the difficulties in finding helpful resources on writing PowerShell 2.0 cmdlets in C#. In case you hadn’t read it, my point was that there’s literally tons of great resources on authoring PowerShell scripts, but very little comparatively on how to author your own binary […]
PowerShell module for VIO-4001/4004
As I’ve mentioned before, I work as a sales engineer for Virtensys, a company that provides a very cool PCIe-based I/O virtualization appliance. Lately I’ve been working on an unofficial project to develop PowerShell cmdlets that will allow the provisioning of virtual I/O to servers connected to our VIO appliances. Here’s a *very* informal demo […]
Configuring EST & VST VLAN tagging with Dell PowerConnect: VMware vSphere
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got a Dell PowerConnect 6224 in my vSphere lab. When I first started setting up my vSphere environment, I had some difficulties with configuring the Dell switch to support external switch tagging (EST) and virtual switch tagging (VST) VLAN modes. The VMware KB has a bunch of great information (KB […]