David Hill

VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit – vCAT Book released

By admin on August 21, 2013 in Cloud Computing

I am pleased to announce that my first book I co-authored has been released on Amazon. This is really exciting news, which I am extremely pleased about. The book is titled VMware vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT): Technical and Operational Guidance for Cloud Success. This has been quite a long journey for a lot of us, and we have spent many a long hour writing or editing for this book, and the paper version available on vmware.com. The vCAT book synopsis: The complete vCAT printed reference: knowledge, tools, and validated designs for building high-value vCloud® solutions The vCloud Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) brings together validated designs, tools, and knowledge for architecting, implementing, operating, and consuming modern vCloud infrastructure based on the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC). vCAT has already helped hundreds of VMware customers succeed with vCloud. Now, pioneering VMware architect John Arrasjid has integrated essential vCAT information into a definitive printed […]

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BMW E46 M3 vs C32 AMG Mercedes

By admin on August 20, 2013 in Randomness

BMW E46 M3 vs C32 AMG Mercedes, Lets start this by pointing out this is not a virtualization post. Its about my other favourite and passionate topic, CARS. I have been wondering about which is best, and which one would I buy, an E46 M3 or a C32 AMG. This post is mainly for me to understand the differences between the two cars, and hopefully get some responses from owner of both, or either. Lets start off this thought process, I have owned three BMW’s and one Mercedes in my lifetime so far. All of the BMW’s I have loved, (330 CI Clubsport, 325D M Sport Tourer, X3 SE), but my experience with the Mercedes was not good (a C220CDI Avantgarde). I think the experience of the Merc was more about me than the car. Nothing went wrong, but I went from a BMW 330CI Clubsport with 240+BHP to an […]

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Architecting the Enterprise

By admin on August 9, 2013 in Randomness

::::::::::: UPDATE ::::::::::: After writing this article, and exchanging a number of emails with Architecting the Enterprise, they have refunded the fee’s that were charged so I am no longer out of pocket. This is a nice outcome, and I appreciate the customer service that they have now provided. I will happily consider booking a course with them again ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I don’t normally write articles discussing companies and the policies they have, (thats more Colotti’s area of expertise), however I feel very strongly about this and wanted to share my bad experience with people so that they don’t fall into the same trap. Architecting the Enterprise – Beware I have wanted to complete the TOGAF certification for quite some time, and finally got the opportunity to do this in June through VMware’s Professional Development program. Basically you pay for the course yourself and once completed VMware reimburse you. Nice. After some […]

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VMworld 2013 – My schedule and sessions

By admin on July 30, 2013 in VMworld

::::::::::: UPDATE ::::::::::: I can now confirm that Aidan Dalgleish and Kamau Wanguhu will be presenting VSVC7371 – Architecting a Software-Defined-Data Center alongside me. This is awesome news and I am really excited about this. Two of the smartest architects I know, and also really easy to present with. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Its been a crazy couple of weeks getting prepared for VMworld 2013. I have had a session added, found out one of my sessions has been added to Barcelona, and received my booth duty schedule for US. Things are in top gear and motoring along nicely. I have two sessions listed for VMworld San Francisco. PHC4750 – How to build a Hybrid Cloud in Less than Day Wednesday 11:00 am David Hill and Chris Colotti VSVC7371 – Architecting a Software-Defined-Data Center Monday 2:00pm David Hill, Kamau Wanguhu, Aidan Dalgleish I am still working on some of the final details for session […]

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My VMware Home lab

By admin on July 22, 2013 in VMware Posts

I now have an updated VMware Home Lab, which you can read by clicking here. Here is my VMware Home Lab. People have been asking me to write about what I use in my VMware home lab that I use for a while. Finally one Saturday night, I have had the chance. Lets start off and talk about the physical hardware in my lab. 1 x HP ML115 G5 – Quad Core AMD Opteron 8GB RAM 2 x 256GB HD – RAID 1 2GB USB 2 x 1GB NIC 1 x 1GB On-board NIC 2 x HP Microserver N54L – 2.2Ghz 16GB RAM 4 x 256GB HD – RAID 5 2GB USB 2 x 1GB NIC 1 x 1GB On-board NIC 1 x Iomega PX4 2 x 1GB NIC 4 x 2TB HD – RAID 10 1 x Buffalo Linkstation Duo 2 x 500GB HD – Raid 1 2 x […]

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