Weather has been crappy and work has been busy. I am so ready for spring. Hope everyone has been staying warm and safe. You would think I would have more time to blog, but… busy, busy, busy (which is a good thing).
There is no kill switch on AWESOME! Truth 🙂
Top vBlog 2015 Voting is well under way. Be sure to stop by and vote for your favorite virtualization blogs and podcasts. Hopefully you will be kind enough to add vHersey.com to your ballot. I would appreciate it for sure. Hoping to break the top 100 this year but there are a lot of great blogs on there. Will be happy with just a vote or two.
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vCoffee Links is a regular feature on vHersey.com. vCoffee Links features news and links of interest from the past week or so. If you have something interesting to add please submit it in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @herseyc.
Decided not to include any vSphere 6.0 stuff in this vCoffee links. There is a ton of great stuff out there but going to wait for GA to see what actually makes it in the final. Especially since there has been a bit of confusion on what will and what will not be in the release.
I recently picked up a Wipebook and will be writing a review of it once I get to put it to real world use (just been doodling in it so far). @nfritsch did a review of his which can be found here – The Erasable Notebook.
There was a lot of discussion around Twitter a couple weeks ago about the new VCDX Directory and mentoring. There was a pretty much an uproar over the fact that VCDX panelist are not able to be mentors. Hey there are a lot of us out here that are more than willing to help, but it is up to the VCDX candidate to drive this. I am extremely thankful for those that helped me along the way, but at the end of the day creating a design and successfully defending the design rest solely on the abilities of the VCDX candidate. @ccolotti wrote a fantastic article Achieving Your VCDX is not a Team Sport in response.
BTW the new VCDX Directory is pretty awesome. If you have not had a chance to stop by and check it out, you should. Great work @ccolotti and team.
In case you missed it there is a 2 hour VCDX Online Workshop happening on Friday, March 13, 2015 7:00 am Pacific Daylight Time. If you are preparing to defend for you VCDX, these workshops are definitely worth checking out. These workshops provide a lot of good insight into what to expect during the defense.
VMware App Volumes is pretty slick and very easy to deploy. @jaslanger has a great series of articles covering App Volumes on his blog (with more to come soon, or so he tells me). Very cool stuff and a great way to simplify your master images by layer App Stacks on them. Looking forward to his posts on creating Writable Volumes.
