Celebrating four years at VMware
Wow! What can I say? Its four years at VMware this month! I cant quite believe how quickly its gone by. I received the email saying that my VASA cubes will be delivered shortly! How awesome is that, a company that honours your four and eight years with some really nice glass art. To read more about the VASA Cubes and how Diane Green got the idea,click here. During my four years at VMware, my life has changed quite significantly. Both personally and professionally. From a personal perspective, I have got married, had a child, moved from the UK to California, then had another child (the first Hill to be born outside of the UK). Phew! What a crazy few years that has all been! I need a break from the family craziness now and lets escape into the tranquility of my daily work… (Tranquil? Yeah right lol) Highlights of […]
Bring your own licenses to the cloud
A little while ago Gabrie van Zanten (aka Gabes Virtual World) asked me a question about how you license Microsoft products in a cloud? Specifically he wanted to know how VMware states “You can bring your own licenses to the cloud”. Lets take a look at this. Currently VMware has two cloud offerings: VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) and Dedicated Cloud. The key differences here is that a Virtual Private Cloud is multi-tenant. You are logically separated from other consumers of the service. A dedicated cloud on the other hand is each customer is hosted on physically isolated servers, away from other customers. Its exactly that, its your dedicated cloud. This has an impact on how you license your apps and OS’s. So back to licensing, how does it differ across the two services: Operating Systems – Microsoft requires all customers on multi-tenant public cloud environments to purchase the Windows Server licenses […]
vExpert 2014 status announced
The people being awarded vExpert 2014 status have been released today. On April 1st of all days! I have now been awarded vExpert status for three years in a row, and every year I always feel very accomplished when I see my name on the list. People I have known well have dropped off, and it is with great pleasure and honour that I received this status. Anyway, thanks to the judges who decide. Awarding to 754 people must be a tough job to judge, so thanks for including me for another year. To view the full list of people who have been awarded the status, click here.
AWS Summit Review by a VMware guy – Part 2
Yesterday I attended the AWS Summit in San Francisco. I wrote part 1 of my AWS Summit Review series yesterday, and this can be read by clicking here. That article focused on the feel of the conference and gave some details on the keynote. What I want to talk around in Part 2 is the technical sessions I attended, and what I felt about those. Lets start with Session 1: Introduction to AWS I selected this session, as I hardly know anything about AWS EC2. I created an account in November and deployed a few things but never used it in anger. An interesting area I thought were that they provide different types of service that are optimised for the workload: Compute-Optimized General Purporse Micro INstances Memory Optimized Storage Optimized GPU Instances They are updating the hardware revisions, and have multiple hardware revisions, for example, compute1 (c1) cluster compute 1 […]