Some personal work experiences with VMware / Server virtualization

I recently got more into VMware and met some great people who very passionate about this (some of co-workers inspired me for this blog-post)

I found a really great site, with lots of links to great VMware websites. It’s called the VMware Launchpad, its certainly worth checking it out. This site is a collection of great resources and blogs where you find lots of information about VMware and related technologies.

For example, the site of Bouke Groenesheij. He probaly is one the best VMware Trainers, he is also an consultant.My boss called him the world leading VMware Expert. He is also (one of the)founder of the Dutch VMUG, an Dutch VMware Community.He is now working at our company,he and some of my other colleagues, managed to get one of the largest Virtual Enviroments in Europe alive and running. He also trained our colleagues, and I heard they all did a great job. I hope I can follow a training from Bouke the coming year, after finishing my MCSE 2003, which I expected to finish this year in October.

Also the site of Eric Sloof, blogger of NTPRO, is also on of the best VMware trainers in our country. He is also on of the founder of the Dutch VMUG community.Eric Sloof is active as an ICT specialist for more than 15 years. Since 2006 the accent of his services changed from consulting to delivering VMware courses. As a VMware certified instructor he helps organisations who want to maximise the benefits of the VMware virtualisation products. Their IT professionals will benefit from attending in-depth, hands-on courses

Also the person behind the number one link, is working at one of our virtualization projects. His name is Duncan Epping, his blog is called Yellow Bricks. I did not met him yet, but I hope to do that very soon. You can also find Ducan on the VMware VMTN Communities as a user and Moderator.

VMware is the standard for us, and we are going to virtualize about 3000 servers in the coming years.Every server requested by an (internal) customer, will be a virtual instance in our newly VMware enviroment, which is one of the largest enviroments in Europe.We have some very challenging upcoming projects, for example all legacy servers will be P2V-ed to our VMware enviroment, also old bricks and an old bad designed Virtual Enviroment will be a migrated to that enviroment.

I am now trying to get my MCSE 2003 certificates, after I have finished that, there is a big chance that I will be doing the VCP-310 or VCP-400, that Is not sure yet.I’m hoping that Bouke will be my trainer.I’m also going to upgrade my MCSE 2003 to MCTIP on Server 2008. I would like to that right after I passed for my MCSE.I’m one of the persons how loves to certify (myself and really enjoy it(my co-worker found I strange) and learn as much as I can. Knowledge i think is the one powers to success in a job.

Conclusion: The IT is very challenging and I love my job, and every-day I’am learning something new.