If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen me mention that I’m (finally!) preparing to sit the VMware VCAP-DCA exam in about a week. I took the recommended troubleshooting class about a year ago, but recently decided to review the material by taking the VMware vSphere Troubleshooting course from TrainSignal. I’m about halfway into […]
Random Stuff
VMware vExpert 2011 — An honor!
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 […]