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, 28 from England. As a qualified VCP4 i am currently working as a VMware Engineer for a great Web Hosting company in London. I have been working in IT for 9 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, enjoykeeping fit and I'm often quite partial to the odd drink or two with friends..But never on a school night!!

My Aims

I had 4 aims for 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) (Voting opens Feb 2010)
• Become a vExpert (Voting opens Feb 2010)

As you can see, 2 Completed, 2 Postponed, 0 Failed. I'm pretty please with that. Now time to set some targets for 2010:

• Study hard towards my VCDX.
  • Enterprise Admin Exam (Waiting for v4)
  • Design Exam (Waiting for v4)
  • Defense Exam
• Become a vExpert
• Get to VMWorld (USA or Europe)
• Improve my Powershell Skills
• Give The SLOG a redesign