Eric Sloof

VMware is thanking me for my contributions to the community of VMware users and my willingness to share my expertise with others.  They have presented me the VMware vExpert Award for 2011.

The vExpert program is a way for VMware to acknowledge and help those who 'go the extra mile' and give back to the VMware user community by sharing their expertise and time. vExperts are bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, event organizers, speakers, tool builders, forum leaders, and others who share their virtualization expertise.

I think you can imagine how proud I am with receiving this award. :-)
 

We all know that Viktor van den Berg was this year’s real professional photographer at the Dutch VMUG Event 2010 but nevertheless here is my small contribution.

My virtualization friend Remon Lam who works as a VMware Consultant  in the Netherlands and is running VirtualClouds.info has recorded my complete VMUG 2010 session on video. Besides that he converted it and did an upload to vimeo last night. Kudos and many thanks go out to Remon. For the attendees who want to see it again because I was talking pretty fast or people that were not able to attend it’s available online, the full 45 minutes. If you want to run through the slides while I’m presenting, you can get your copy here. I hope you will enjoy it and don’t fall asleep. :-)

iPad: http://player.vimeo.com/video/17711772?color=24ff95

This year’s Dutch VMUG Event 2010 video contains a lot of awesome impressions I’ve captured during the day. I want to thank all the 750 attendees for visiting this great event. The video is a compilation of the start-up, some sessions I attended, the workshops, the food and drinks and at the end of the day all the lucky prize winners.

Here's the link to the Dutch VMUG Event 2010 Video for iPad users http://bit.ly/gHV0Ej

This year’s Dutch VMUG event 2010 is massive! The number of attendees is over 750 and there are loads of great sessions and workshops. Right before lunch, I had the honour to present my session which deals with virtual machine advanced troubleshooting in a vSphere environment. When you are interested in  the metrics you can find in esxtop and prepared to go beyond the point where you’re just looking at CPU ready times then this slide deck will give you a better insight. You can also get a grip on things like memory limits and reservation, storage bottlenecks and finding the reason for dropped network packets.

This presentation has cost me a lot of time to prepare but it was a joy to build it. I’ve been working on it for two months. Besides delivering training on a daily basis, I’ve spent every free minute on doing research, gathering screenshots and creating awesome graphics. Two valued virtualization colleagues have reviewed the presentation so I want to thank Rawlinson Rivera and Harold Schoofs for their great feedback. vSphere  Advanced Troubleshooting has been presented during my VMware training courses for five times, so from this place many thanks to all my students for their great feedback in the past weeks. I’ve uploaded the presentation to SlideShare but you can also get a copy here: AdvancedTroubleshooting.pdf - 50 slides of awesomeness from start to end, I hope you enjoy it.

Next week Veeam's Ricky El-Qasem is going back into trainer mode. Some of you may know that he used to be a VMware instructor and so it was a logical move for him when invited by Veeam to develop an education services program. On 10th December He will be delivering a workshop where he will be teaching some lucky attendees of the Dutch VMUG how to use Veeam Backup’s Instant VM recovery and Exchange Item level restore features which is part of vPower engine. In some way this is Veeam’s first official classroom training course and to mark this special occasion they have a great raffle prize. So some lucky attendee of Ricky's workshop gets yes that’s right a brand new xBox 360 with kinect. Only people attending the Veeam workshop are eligible for the raffle, so register today.

http://read.virtualizeplanet.com/?p=331

While I was prepping my upcoming “vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting” presentation for the Dutch VMUG event 2010, I stumbled upon a great presentation by Mark Monce. It’s called “Transitioning to ESXi with vSphere 4.1” and contains a lot of information like:

• Overview of ESXi
  
• Hardware Monitoring and Systems Management
  
• Infrastructure Services
  
• Command Line Interfaces
  
• Diagnostics and Troubleshooting

One thing I didn’t know was, that you can use your web browser to retrieve some essential ESXi diagnostic information.

Browser-based Access of Config Files
https://<hostname>/host
Browser-based Access of Log Files
https://<hostname>/host/messages
Browser-based Access of DatastoreFiles
https://<hostname>/folder

Yes, we’re on our way to VMware’s VMworld event. I’m travelling with Viktor van den Berg and we flew from Amsterdam to Copenhagen with a KLM Boeing 737-400. Just before boarding I did a little interview with Viktor who’s the head of the Dutch VMUG and also a board member of the global VMware User Group (VMUG). His daily job is Product manager / Technical  Trainer at XTG.  I asked him about his expectations.

The Dutch VMUG event attracts a lot of attention. In September 2005, the first time this event was held the number of attendees was around 50. This number has risen over the years. The next event will take place on the 10th of December at the NBC in Nieuwegein and is open for registration. The Dutch VMUG expects around 700 attendees. It looks like this event has become some sort of mini VMworld.

The preliminary agenda with 4 parallel tracks is online and yes :-) I'll be presenting again.

vSphere Advanced Troubleshooting - Eric Sloof (ntpro.nl)

Tijdens deze presentatie zal Eric Sloof laten zien wat de 10 meest voorkomende problemen binnen een vSphere omgeving kunnen zijn. Er wordt onder meer gekeken naar zaken als HA, DRS, Resource Pools en Virtual Machine settings. Veel belangrijker is natuurlijk dat u deze problemen binnen uw eigen omgeving kunt opsporen en oplossen. Daarvoor zijn diverse handige tooltjes en methodieken beschikbaar die ook de revue zullen passeren.

VMware is thanking me for my contributions to the community of VMware users and my willingness to share my expertise with others.  They have presented me the VMware vExpert Award for 2010.

The vExpert program is a way for VMware to acknowledge and help those who 'go the extra mile' and give back to the VMware user community by sharing their expertise and time. vExperts are bloggers, book authors, VMUG leaders, event organizers, speakers, tool builders, forum leaders, and others who share their virtualization expertise.

I think you can imagine how proud I am with receiving this award. :-)

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