Evento VMUG IT – 5 ottobre 2011 – Save the date!
Posted: September 25th, 2011 | Author: Fabio Rapposelli | Filed under: Virtualization | Tags: vmug, VMUGIT, VMware | No Comments »Dopo l’incredibile successo del primo evento di Aprile l’evento VMUG IT torna per la seconda volta a Milano per presentare le novità di vSphere 5 e per rendervi partecipi ad un interessantissimo dibattito sul backup nell’era delle infrastrutture virtualizzate.
Come da prassi per gli eventi del VMUG IT non ci saranno vendor a mostrare le loro slide di prevendita, ma end-users ed esperti del settore che parleranno di scenari veri, implementazioni reali ed esperienze vissute in prima persona.
L’evento è completamente gratuito, pranzo e pause ricreative saranno offerte dagli sponsors.
Tenetevi liberi!!!
Quando:
5 Ottobre 2011, ore 8.00 – 17.30
Dove:
NH Milanofiori Strada 2a, Milanofiori – Loc. Assago 20090 Assago
Tematiche:
vSphere5 / Tavola rotonda sulle soluzioni di Backup per VMware
Come partecipare:
iscrivetevi tramite questo form: vmugit201102.eventbrite.com/
Programma della giornata:
- 09:00-09:30 Registrazione + Welcome Coffee
- 09:30-09:45 Benvenuto – Piergiorgio Spagnolatti
- 09:45-10:45 vSphere5: new feature e demo – Andrea Mauro e Fabio Rapposelli
- 10:45-11:15 vSphere5: Licensing – Massimiliano Moschini
- 11:15-11:45 Bla, Bla, Bla, Cloud – Massimo Re Ferrè
- 11:45-12:15 Anteprima Esclusiva: Splunk app per vSphere – Splunk
- 12:15-12:45 Il cuore dell’infrastruttura virtuale: lo storage – Andrea Goldoni
- 12:45-14:00 Lunch in area espositiva
- 14:00-14:10 Introduzione ai backup – Luca Dell’oca
- 14:15-16:30 Tavola rotonda sul backup: Acronis Backup and Recovery, EMC Avamar, Quest vRanger, Symantec Backup Exec, Veeam Backup & Replication
- 16:45 Aperitivo finale
Durante tutta la giornata, saranno presenti nella hall vari vendor presso i quali porre questioni commerciali e tecniche: Acronis, EMC, Quest, Splunk, Symantec, Veeam.
Tech Field Day Hometown gift exchange: a delegate experience.
Posted: August 20th, 2011 | Author: Fabio Rapposelli | Filed under: Storage, Travel, Virtualization | Tags: tech field day, techfieldday, tfd7 | 1 Comment »As you may guess, I was lucky enough to be selected as a Tech Field Day Delegate recently and being my first TFD I wasn’t sure what to expect from it, but let me tell you: it’s definitely the best way to hear and know about Enterprise IT products, there’s no Kool-Aid involved and you get to talk with top notch people.
A new thing for Tech Field Day was the hometown gift exchange that took place the night before starting the visits.
All the delegates were requested to bring something for each delegate from home that could represent their hometown and who they are, to better know each other and to break the ice with the other delegates, an awesome idea if you ask me!
Everybody brought something from their own homeland: we got candies, cards, bottle openers, books, shot glasses, coasters, everything has been awesome but not for the gift itself, but for the story behind it, and the story behind every delegate as everyone was brought up to talk about himself and distribute the gifts.
So if you’ve been selected as a Tech Field Day delegate and you’re reading this because you don’t know what to bring here’s a three-tip list for you:
- Bring something for every delegate (or make sure that everyone could share what you brought).
- Don’t spend too much on it (I spent approximately 9$/each).
- Bring something that represents where you’re coming from or that has a meaning to you.
I would like to thank again Stephen and Matt for letting me be part of this, it’s been an awesome experience.
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Italian VMUG Event: Call for Papers!
Posted: July 4th, 2011 | Author: Fabio Rapposelli | Filed under: Virtualization | Tags: call for papers, cfp, Virtualization, vmug, VMUGIT | No Comments »*Sorry, Italian post only, this is for our second VMUGIT event that will be held in September this year, but if you’re an English-speaking virtualization enthusiast and you’re willing to travel to Italy (which is great in September) to present your session at our event, please don’t refrain from submitting your paper.*
Dove:
In occasione del prossimo VMUG Italiano, previsto per settembre 2011 a Milano, invitiamo tutti i partecipanti, simpatizzanti, esperti di VMware che vogliano contribuire, a rispondere a questa Call For Papers. E’ invitato a partecipare chiunque abbia un’esperienza da illustrare relativa a VMware, e ritenga che il suo progetto possa essere interessante per altri utenti del VMUG.
Come:
inviate i vostri abstract all’indirizzo email cfp2011@vmug.it, usando come oggetto della mail CFP. Prevedete fin dall’inizio una presentazione che possa essere completata in 40-45 minuti massimi, corrispondenti agli slot che ogni presentazione avrà durante la giornata.
Quando:
la data ultima di invio degli abstract è il 31 luglio 2011. In seguito a selezione dei migliori abstract da parte del board del VMUG, i selezionati dovranno inviare la presentazione ultimata entro il 31 Agosto 2011.
Il Board del VMUG, composto da ben 2 VCDX e svariati VCP, vi garantisce fin d’ora il massimo supporto nella stesura di abstract e presentazioni.
Cosa:
Potete parlare di qualsiasi argomento relativo a VMware, progetti di virtualizzazione, sistemi di disaster recovery, view, software particolari, storage. Preferibilmente non legato specificatamente a un prodotto software o hardware (oltre ovviamente a VMware stesso…) e che sia più tecnico che commerciale.
Abbiamo già in programma almeno una sessione per presentare vSphere 5, che sarà sicuramente uscito al momento dell’evento, quindi se non avete sessioni interessanti in merito, non preoccupatevi.
Perché:
Per accrescere la “cultura” sulla virtualizzazione, per confrontarsi con altri tecnici del settore, per ricevere critiche costruttive e per dare spunto coi propri progetti ad altri che si accingono a realizzarli.
Forse (dobbiamo ancora avere un ok definitivo) per ricevere un gadget da uno degli sponsor 
Attendiamo quindi le vostre sottomissioni, non fate i timidi!
I’m a vExpert!
Posted: July 2nd, 2011 | Author: Fabio Rapposelli | Filed under: Virtualization | Tags: vexpert, Virtualization, VMware | 4 Comments »
Is great honor and pleasure for me to announce that I’ve been selected for the vExpert 2011 award.
This is the first time that I participate in the program and I’m humbled to figure amongst the best names in the Virtualization industry, it’s truly a great honor for me.
In 2010 the Italian virtualization community has come to great lengths, everything started with the first Italian vBeers in Copenhagen at the Bryggeriet Apollo where we’ve laid down the first brick, and now, 9 months after, we established the first official Italian VMUG, we already had our first event with more than 100 attendees and we’re already planning the second one for September.
This effort has been recognized by the team at VMware and we can proudly announce that four (!) out of seven people sitting in the VMUGIT steering committee have been designated recipient for the vExpert 2011 award.
By the end of the year I hope to resume working on my CCIE certification and also resume the technical posts on this blog (which has been a bit “slow” lately) that will start to cover more the network side of everything virtualization.
My VCAP-DCD experience
Posted: March 1st, 2011 | Author: Fabio Rapposelli | Filed under: VCDX, Virtualization | Tags: vcap, vcap-dcd, VCDX, vcdx4, VMware | 3 Comments »It’s been a long time since my last post here, as you’re probably already aware I’m involved in another blog called Juku, but that’s another story
In the middle of my tight schedule I decided to book the VCAP-DCD exam to upgrade my VCDX up to version 4 and, as is usual for me, I didn’t had the time to study until the day before the exam.
By the way, on Thursday February 17th I set my alarm clock at 4.30am, drove to Bologna and picked up a semi-empty flight to London Gatwick, my exam was scheduled at 10.45am but as usual I arrived early and stopped by the local Starbucks to get my coffee fix (a quad shot americano, just to warm up my brain a little bit) and to review a couple of VMware documents that I was less sure about, at 10.30 I showed up at the Holborn Pearson center, filled the paperwork and started the exam.
Obviously there are countless NDAs on the exam itself, so I’m not going to disclose anything, I will try to explain my feelings toward the exam that in my opinion is a big step in the right direction.
Let’s start with a quick PROs vs. CONs list:
PROs:
- The Visio-like design portion is actually doable, a quantum leap for those who experienced the infamous VCD310.
- Questions span on every design aspect, this is definitely an Exam that you can pass only if you have a real experience in the field, braindumps are worth nothing here.
- The balance between traditional multiple choice, drag&drop and design questions is great, much better when compared to the old Design Exam.
- Scoring is immediate (this is a GREAT plus to me ).
CONs:
- Exam is waaaay too long: sitting for 4 hours straight in an exam room answering questions is alienating in my opinion.
- Some questions are either too simple or too complex, a better balance would be appreciated.
- There’s no calculator available (neither in physical form or on-screen) and there are many questions that require some math skills.
So, besides the cons listed above, this exam is definitely a big step forward in the right direction, and on top of that I had a feeling that the VCAP-DCD blueprint was covered at almost 100%, instead of the older Design Exam blueprint that, in my opinion, was less focused on the VMware side of things (this also means that you need to study everything listed on the blueprint .
Another pain point for many could be the so-called “VMware terminology” in the design questions, like: constraint, assumptions, upstream and downstream dependencies. They’re clearly meaningful words and if you can wrap your head around these concepts it’s fairly easy to understand and answer the questions, but if you’re not accustomed to design using this terminology you should probably attend the VMware Design course that gives a great overview of the “VMware way” of doing designs.
In the end I passed the exam with a decent 413 (out of 500), upgraded my VCDX certification to VCDX4 and got back home at 11.30pm the same day (with a nice bag of macaroons bought at Laduree), not a bad day after all
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