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Goodbye 2011, you were great

December 30, 11 //
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Yes, this is YAEo­tYP, so if you’ve already read tons of them I apologize.

2011 — My per­sonal view

2011 has been a steam­roller of a year.The vSoup Vir­tu­al­iza­tion Pod­cast got aired the first time, and we’ve recorded and pub­lished 19 full episodes in the inau­gural year. I was awarded the vEx­pert title for the first time, and even got invited to Tech Field Day #6 in Boston.

In addi­tion to this, I wrote a white paper for Veeam, was included in the Server Vir­tu­al­iza­tion Advi­sory Board, joined Rick Vanover for a Veeam Com­mu­nity Pod­cast, and appeared in two video interviews.

One with Mike Lav­er­ick about the #VMTNSub­scrip­tion­Move­ment and one where Eric Sloof ambushed me with a cam­era while vis­it­ing Bergen.

Lots of exit­ing projects were started in 2011, includ­ing my Pow­er­CLI based automa­tion project for ves­sel instal­la­tions, migrat­ing from stand­alone ESX hosts to blade servers (HP c7000 + Vir­tual Connect/Flex10) in addi­tion to the nor­mal day to day oper­a­tions and after 8 years at Seatrans AS, I handed in my papers, mov­ing on to a new role for EDB ErgoGroup.

2011 vNinja.net Statistics

2011 was the first year this site existed, so I can’t really com­pare the traf­fic it has received with 2010, but based on the few months it existed in 2010 the traf­fic increase has been enormous.

2011 Facts


And that’s it for 2011. Per­son­ally 2012 looks even more promis­ing, and hope­fully my expo­sure to more diverse envi­ron­ments should be reflected back on the site as I’m cer­tain it will spur more posts and more inter­est­ing dis­cus­sions. See you in 2012, I think we’re in for a cracker.

Tech Field Day #6 — Arriving in Boston

June 8, 11 //
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Yes­ter­day I arrived at Logan Inter­na­tional for Tech Field Day #6 in the greater Boston area. Christo­pher Wells had already arrived ear­lier in the day, and I was lucky enough to be picked up by Stephen Fos­kett at the air­port and chauf­feured to the Sher­a­ton Fram­ing­ham Hotel and Con­fer­ence center.

The travel itself was pretty unevent­ful, the only trou­ble I had was that when I landed at Schipol for trans­fer to the US flight, my board­ing pass was nowhere to be found, and I don’t think I even received it when I checked in at Bergen Air­port Fles­land. At the self-service tran­sit coun­ters at Schipol I even got told, by the machines, that my reser­va­tion was non-existent. Of course, this was kind of trou­bling, but thanks to the very nice and ser­vice minded KLM employ­ees at Schipol, that issue was quickly resolved and I was on my merry way. At least as merry as one can be when trav­el­ing transatlantic.

The flight from Schipol to Logan was incred­i­bly bor­ing though.Normally I have no prob­lems sleep­ing while fly­ing, but this time around I got the grand total of zero min­utes of sleep on the entire trip. Add in the 6 hour time dif­fer­ence, and you’ve got one tired trav­el­ing vNinja on your hands.

Stephen and I met up with Chris Wells at the hotel, and went out search­ing for din­ner. Stephen, who seems to know every­thing there is to know, and then some, about Boston and the sur­round­ing areas, guided us to a local Indian restau­rant where we got some great Thali.

After that we ended up at the Horse­shoe Pub & Restau­rant for some vTFD­beers! How many beers do they have on tap? Who knows, all I know is that it’s a lot!. I haven’t seen that many beer taps since I was at The Gin­ger­bread­man in New York many moons ago.

As you can clearly see, the world has indeed sur­vived the first ever meetup between the vSamu­rai and the vNinja. Meet­ing up with both Chris and Stephen was a real treat, and I can’t wait for the rest of the del­e­gates arrive dur­ing the day, Tech Field Day 6: You look awesome.

vNinja enables HA

April 13, 11 //
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I’m happy to announce that my fel­low vSoup Pod­cast co-host Ed Czer­win is on board as blog­ger here on vNinja.net! This means that from now on you won’t just have to put up with the con­tent of one vir­tu­al­iza­tion admin, but two!

As all good vAd­mins know, two is bet­ter than one, and it’ so much eas­ier to build HA solu­tions around!

Wel­come aboard Ed, glad to have you on!

vNinja.net available also on vNinja.com

March 21, 11 //
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Thanks to the gen­eros­ity of Todd Wright vNinja.net is now also avail­able via vNinja.com. Todd came out of nowhere and offered to redi­rect his vNinja.com domain to vNinja.net, since he didn’t have time to do any­thing with it himself.

I’m very grate­ful that Todd wanted to do this, and thanks to some quick Apache trick­ery .com now redi­rects to .net to make sure Google doesn’t find and penal­ize any dou­ble content.

Thanks again Todd, it’s much appreciated!