On 14/10/2007, John Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am sorry if this has already been covered, but I have been away from the
> net for ten days and the quick skimming of the emails don´t seem to point
> that it has.
>
> There seems to be little reference to virtualisation as a whole (VMWare is
> mentionned as an item on a topic after the survey) but the use of virtual
> servers is just exploding - OpenVZ, Xen, VMWare Server, etc all run on
> GNU/Linux and is deployed in just about every datacentre now. Even VPS are
> becoming very common on the web.
>
> Could we not address the principles of virtualisation - how it works, why
> it is beneficial, etc and how the market is currently (major players and
> their limitations etc) on the silver certification and then how to leverage
> it usefully and troubleshoot during the gold.
>
> I like the idea of using VMWare appliances for the course - I am the
> resident VMWare "guru" at my work (IT infrastructure team of 10) and am
> finding more and more requests for boxes (we are now well well north of 100
> VMs).
>
> I dont want this to be seen as a pushing of a hobby horse (so to speak)
> but when vendors want to demonstrate their product they often just leave us
> with a VM now and quite a few applications we use are offering us VMWare
> appliances in future versions.
>
> Just my two pennies (or until Monday Icelandic Kronas) worth.....
>
> John
>
>
> On 10/12/07, Richard Rothwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Friday 12 October 2007 19:20, Geoff wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > I have added a few comments onto the PostSurveySuggestions page.
> > > I feel some of the more fundamental topics should be discussed on the
> > > Bronze & Silver levels as these never seem to be discussed anywhere.
> > As
> >
> > Sounds like a good idea - I'm hoping that next week we can flesh out the
> > "I
> > can... " list of skills for each of the topics - we should be able to
> > include
> > your additions - either in the topics we have or in new ones.
> >
> > R
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Thats a very valid idea, i think that would be a good segment.
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