It’s been three years since my last blog. The last one was here http://www.paulpmeehan.ie/2017/07/05/vcdx250-its-a-pass/ when I got the good news about VCDX back in 2017. Why the lack of posts ? In 2016 I switched role when my previous boss retired. I was asked to lead a team of EMEA Subject Matter Experts across Hitachi […]
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It’s taken me an age, but on Wednesday 24th May I finally got the news and am now able to paste this wonderful capture into this post: There is no better feeling. It lasts for a long time – I’m still getting so much satisfaction out of it. It’s taken so long and there are […]
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Disclaimer: I work for Hitachi Data Systems. This post is not authorised or approved by my company and is based on my personal opinions. I hope you read on. A couple of weeks back Pure Storage announced their converged stack called the Flashstack. So now Hitachi has UCP Director, VCE has Vblock, Netapp has Flexpod. Now Pure […]
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It’s been a real long time since I wrote one of these posts concerning home labs. I’ve been using work labs for a while now but need to start working on the gathering rust at home too. I’ve kind of neglected the homelab of late but just did a refurb on the office so now it’s […]
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I previously wrote a post HERE where I described using a Gaming PC running VMware Workstation as one virtual datacenter, connected to a MacBook Pro running VMware Fusion running another. I run SRM between them to simulate having two datacenters with a small Gig switch in between. It works well and is a pretty simple configuration. It’s […]
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It’s been too long since my last post. I’m glad to say I have something exciting to report. Next Tuesday I start a new role with Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) as Principal Consultant EMEA for VMware Solutions. This is a wide-ranging role that centres around HDS’ strategic decision to focus (even more) on VMware Solutions as […]
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Recap: In the last post I covered some of the reasons you might want to use a lab, as well as the basic options. If you haven’t seen it check it out HERE. Remember I’m recounting my experience and a certain level of general confusion, which I am trying to ensure you don’t replicate. We […]
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