Virtualization: One Guy's Journey

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The first full, official day of VMware Explore. I managed to attend a few sessions, as well as the traditional Welcome Reception and a couple after-hours events. In between I met folks both familiar and new. That's what a conference like this is abou...
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Welcome to the VMware Explore US 2022 General Session live blog! General Session Only one general session this year, let's see what's up! Note: To view the live blog you need to read this post on https://teebeedee.org. If you read it some other way, ...
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"See you next year San Francisco!" That's how my last post on this blog ended. It was August 2019. Simpler times. Needless to say I didn't see San Francisco in 2020. Or 2021. Two Gather(ings), Apart VMworld was held completely online those years. It ...
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The bittersweet last day of VMworld. This year I'm doing something a little different and attending VMware's Future:NET. Future:NET is a sister conference to VMworld that focuses on networking. The day was broken down into sessions that alternated be...

Wednesday at VMworld. Full out sessions, last day of the Solutions Exchange. Let's check in. Swing and a Miss I had a breakout session booked early in the morning this morning. Early enough that I had to skip breakfast to get to it. No problem, I tho...

A while back, last October in fact, I presented at the Edmonton VMUG. Being my first public presentation I wanted to keep things simple and familiar. I decided my topic should be the virtualization journey I've been on these many years. A big picture view of how and when I've met virtualization, leading to the environment I help design and manage today.
The presentation covers the evolution of the virtualization infrastructure at my places of work, beginning with client-side virtualization and leading to the enterprise. We'll meet GSX in the wild, and a migration to the popular VI3. There will be the addition of virtual desktops, but not VDI. We'll endure the great "status quo", a split-personality migration (vCenter 5 & ESX4? Oh my!) and finally the implementation of vCloud Suite in a multi-datacenter environment.
You can find the presentation below, however to read the descriptive text you'll need to visit its Haiku Deck page. Enjoy!
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