Welcome to The SLOG! Its a technical Blog written by me,  Simon Long. Predominantly based around Virtualisation, but will include other technology related information and anything else I find interesting and feel the need to share with you. I also use this Blog as both a place to store useful information that I think that will come in handy to me at some point in the future, and also a place to help aid my learning. I find a great way to learn about something is to research about it and then write it up in my own words.

A little about me:  I'm Simon Long, 30 from England. As a qualified VCP4 I am currently working as a Senior Consultant at VMware . I have been working in IT for 12 years, In which I now focus more on Virtualisation. I also have extensive experience in Networking, SAN Technologies and Active Directory. I'm a regular Twitter user and you will often find me on the VMTN Community asking and answering questions. IT aside, I play many sports, enjoy keeping fit and I'm often quite partial to the odd drink or two with friends..But never on a school night!!

My Aims

2011

• Learn to Present (Follow my progress here: Operation #PinkShirt)
• Study hard towards my VCDX.
  • VCAP-DCA – PASSED (June '11)
  • VCAP-DCD - PASSED (July '11)
  • VCDX – Defense (Need to do the VCAP Exams first)
• Work hard to improve my technical knowledge and to become respected in my team at VMware
• Produce more technical material on The SLOG
• Get The SLOG into the Top10 Virtualisation Blogs

2010

• Study hard towards my VCDX. 
  • Enterprise Admin Exam (Waiting for VCAP-DCA)
  • Design Exam (Waiting for VCAP-DCD)
  • Defense Exam (Need to do the VCAP Exams first)
• Become a vExpert - AWARDED
• Get to VMWorld (USA or Europe) - ATTENDED Copenhagen (Oct '10)
• Improve my Powershell Skills - Slight improvement
• Give The SLOG a redesign (No time and probably not needed)

2009

• Learn Powershell – Currently at a Basic Level (Aug 09)
• Sit and pass my VCP vSphere 4 Exam – PASSED (July 09)
• Study hard for my Master VCP/ Enterprise Admin Exam (Waiting for v4)
• Become a vExpert (Voting opens Feb 2010)

Disclaimer

Views expressed here are my own. I am solely responsible for all content produced here. No information provided here was reviewed by or endorsed by VMware.