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  How to grow as a presenter: examples

  08.26.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I know there are a lot of sites, books, DVDs and courses out there that can help you be a better presenter. Personally I have learned a lot more from watching some great presenters in action than I ever picked up from any book. And the plus side is that you’re learning some stuff and [...]

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  Scripting multiple simultaneous clones in VMware

  04.17.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve built this VMware PowerCLI (formerly VI Toolkit) script for a customer that required multiple simultaneous clonings that he could easily configure to back up his production VMs. I’ve included a mechanism to limit the maximum number of concurrent clonings to maximise performance, so when using this script it will take some experimentation to find [...]

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  Lead like the great conductors

  02.25.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  A brilliant and funny TED talk by conductor Itay Talgam on leadership styles and challenges: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video

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  To certify or not to certify?

  01.05.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently I passed my VMware VCP 3 and VPC 4 exams (i.e.: VMware Certified Professional on versions 3 and 4), which to be honest felt kind of odd as I’ve been doing things with VMware way beyond these certifications’ standards for quite a while…which leads me to ponder the normal IT certifications as a whole. [...]

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  Possibly the best comparison of RAID 0+1 vs. RAID 1+0

  10.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yes, very techie, but choosing RAID levels is always a bit of a process to find the right level or combination of levels. Today I had to do another analysis and make the choice, and while checking my data I found this great write-up: Difference between RAID 0+1 vs RAID 1+0 by Decypher Information Systems. [...]

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  Quick VMware tip: tracking snapshot delete progress

  07.25.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  I’ve built and actively manage a number of VMware ESX servers and server clusters, and one of the things that bug me is that as soon as I delete a snapshot I have no idea on its progress (especially if it’s a large snapshot, which can take quite a while). Here’s a quick tip to [...]

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