VMware Certification: Where to Begin Your Virtualization Career
Overloaded by Choices… Recently as I was browsing the My Learning Portal on VMware, I was amazed by all the certifications now available for different VMware products. Talk about …
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How Bare Metal Virtualization Made Cloud Computing A Reality
An Overview of Bare Metal Virtualization Let’s start by explaining what the term bare metal refers to: It’s the physical state of server hardware (aka bare metal) filling server cabinets in …
Uptime for Beginners (99.999 Equals .00100 Downtime)
Intro to Uptime Monitoring Do you know which is more important: server uptime or service downtime? Hang in there while I break this question down into pieces easy to …
3 vSphere Installation and Setup Tips to Avoid Common Mistakes
Here’s the truth – I’ve made a lot of VMware mistakes. There I said it, now here are 3 tips to help avoid costly downtime and outages caused by …
Quick Lesson: VM Performance Checklist for Troubleshooting
Let’s set the stage for this VMware troubleshooting lesson… It’s 2 o’clock in the morning and you just received a call from the NOC. Hundreds of users from around …
3 Tough Technical Project Manager Interview Questions & Answers
What is a Technical Project Manager? The short answer: a project manager with deep technical understanding. Now let me go more in-depth and explain the difference between having a …