This weeks chinwaggie clearly needs no introduction as the No1 Independent Blogger on the vCommunity scene – Eric Sloof. This week I was fortunate to sit in on the VMware vCloud Design Best Practises course that Eric was running in London. Although this course is still based on the older 1.5 version of vCloud Director it was still a fantasic course – because despite the obivious improvements in vCloud Director 5.1 (some of which may intail changes to those very same best practises) the principles and design challenges remain largely the same. The course is one of those which is very dependent on having a very capable instructor (that’s sorted!) and very good students (that was sorted too). There was a good mix of folks on the course including a former student of mine who taught vSphere4, as well people who had done their fair share of implementations as well. For me it was an excellent opportunity to both learn from others, as well as putting forward my own concerns about whether I had “done it the right way”. So look forward to a “debrief” post of mine in the next week as I run through the manual and my copious notes about how the course changed my views on the design. As ever with these courses you partly looking to have your own tentive ideas confirmed, or having them questioned…
After the course was over I was able to do an impromptu chinwag from the back of class with the man and legend – talking about vCloud Director, the challenges of design and the stuff that Eric would like to see VMware do next with vCloud Director.
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