With coming home from VMworld, I got inspired to finally do what I have meant to do for awhile — separate my eclectic blog. I have seen the problem for awhile that while my URL for this blog features network administration and virtualization the actual blog does not. It used to until my Youtube career or . . . → Read More: Changes
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I wanted to just post a state of the union or world message or where my life sits today type post. It is sort of New Year’s post 3 weeks late post to reflect with what 2008 meant to me, and where I plan to head this year. Running:  One comment - (Comments are closed)  Uncategorized  Atkins Diet, Bowulf, Exercise, Firefighter, Low Carb, Maintenance, NREMT, Obesity, Weight Loss / Exercise I have had two recent support tickets that just exhibit the state of coding in the networking world. The first one is in the case of VMware. We were getting this error message ever since upgrading to ESX 3.5 Update 2 from 3.0.2. The error message was “Unable to apply DRS resource settings on host (Reason: . . . → Read More: VMware and IBM xSeries 3850 M2 Support Tickets 1. Where was I 10 years ago? 10 years ago, I was just forced out of the Guard in February. I started a new job a new job at First Dakota National Bank in Yankton, SD. This is my first real IT job, and it forced me to wear suits every day to work — no . . . → Read More: Tagged by Jeri – 5 Questions In a quest to prove I am never busy enough, I am “on the clock” for taking the VMware Enterprise Administration Exam on June 9th in Chicago, IL. Ever since getting my VCP in 2.x days, that certification and technology has been probably one of my keenest areas to stay versed and up to date. To . . . → Read More: On the clock again – VMware Enterprise Administration Exam scheduled One of the comments I routinely hear regarding my Youtube videos is that fine you were successful with the diet, but you are doing this at the expense of your organs, brain, blood vessels, heart, etc. I have been accused that I am literally on a precipice of a health disaster. I keep pointing back to . . . → Read More: 4 years later – Results of Atkineer Blood Work I have been extremely busy lately, and I am coming to realize that not all plans I have made are doable in light of it. For example, my dreams of running a spring ultra-marathon are probably out the window. I am missing multiple training runs with the cold weather. This past week I even had to . . . → Read More: Busy-ness – the curse of an IT Professional,Fire-fighter, Marathoner As I have written in the past, I took 71-643 beta exam in December. At the time, I thought it was a beast of an exam, and after the exam during the comments section, I put down what I thought about the exam. I recorded items like that I believe virtualization products should have . . . → Read More: 70-646 Beta and Other certification happenings! Just took the 71-643 beta yesterday, it is a beast of sorts. My prep was the virtual lab sessions and installing 2008 Terminal Services (playing with RemoteApps – although RC1 broke it by requiring SP1 on Vista), installing WDS, and looking at the differences in IIS7. I obviously was not as well prepared as I should . . . → Read More: Took 71-643 – what a beast! I took 71-648 exam on August 3 primarily just to get a heads-up on what the upcoming exams would look like (simulations, type of questions, etc.). In retrospect, one with MCSE in 2003 should only need to take 70-649, but that wasn’t explicitly clear to me when I took the exam. My plan was to take . . . → Read More: 70-648 Beta Passed! Thoughts from a certified cert addict… |
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