About the Site

About the site

On a daily basis, throughout my previous roles, I would perform tasks and use tools that others may not use or may not think to do.  This gives me the opportunity to share some of the knowledge I have or items that I have found to be useful, and hopefully help others to learn and enhance their knowledge.

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About Me

About Me

Put quite simply, I’ve been in IT for a long time, working initially for small businesses, moving onto datacenter and server support for a company with 50,000 users worldwide before moving across to VMware in 2019 as a Technical Account Manager.

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VMware Radius – Stories at the Edge

VMware Radius has been around for a while but I still believe that there are a number of people out there that do not know that it exists.  Radius delivers news, insights, perspectives and thought leadership articles to everyone. It can be accessed here:  vmware.com/radius/ As an example of the types of article that are on there at the moment, […]

VMware Completes Pivotal Acquisition & Acquisition History

As you may recall a couple of months ago, VMware announced its intent to acquire Pivotal from Dell Technologies.  By including Pivotal into the VMware fold, it opens up new opportunities to have Kubernetes supported natively directly in the vSphere product line among other benefits. On 30th December 2019, a press announcement was released to confirm that the acquisition of […]

Reminiscing About VMworld! – #VMworldMyMark

If you are in the IT Industry and have done anything with virtualisation, then you’ll know about VMworld.  This blog post isn’t going to explain what you should bring to VMworld, what to do and what parties to attend… as that will be covered by lots of other people across the world.  This blog post is more about reminiscing about […]

Visiting VMware Headquarters – Palo Alto

I’ve been working with VMware products for a long time.  Being based in the UK, I had been to the VMware UK office in Staines and previously Frimley on a few occasions but I had never had the opportunity to make the visit to the VMware Headquarters in Palo Alto… until now. I was recently offered the opportunity to visit […]

Time for a Change

It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post on here and that has been for a number of reasons. The main reason is due to me deciding to change jobs. My previous job was a good job, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that after 11 years, it was time to move on. The positive thing for […]

VMware VM with EFI Migration to Microsoft Azure (BAW16)

This information has been around for a little while and therefore I apologise if you have seen it already. I have been investigating the different ways to migrate virtual machines from a local VMware vSphere environment to Microsoft Azure.  The main concern that I have had is around virtual machines configured with EFI in VMware and being able to get […]

VMWorld – Preparing for your first time!!! (BAW15)

Here is a short post about what I believe that you should do in preparation to attend VMworld.  My experience is mainly based on VMworld Europe but some of the items are certainly valid for VMWorld US as well. Registration, Hotels & Travel Discounts – When you register, make sure that you take advantage of any discounts that are available.  […]

vSphere 6.7 and Veeam Support (BAW13)

For those of your who do not currently subscribe to the Weekly Veeam Community Forum emails provided by Anton Gostev at Veeam, here are details taken from his most recent email with regards to Veeam 9.5 support for vSphere 6.7. So the biggest news of the past week is VMware vSphere 6.7 becoming generally available, bringing the long-awaited HTML5 client! […]