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Twitter Handle: @Texiwill

Blog URL: http://www.virtualizationpractice.com

Current Employer: AstroArch Consulting, Inc. 

How did you get into IT in   the first place

Naturally, I have always been interested in programming and one day a friend offered me the chance to play and program a commodore 64. Viola I was hooked. Been developing code and learning more about it every day since then. I was first involved in computational fluid dynamics where I was visualizing complex fluid flows and moved from there to writing low level graphics libraries and eventually high performance technical computing 

How did you get into working with VMware and becoming a 2011 vExpert?

It all started many years ago when the beta of VMware workstation v0.9 was released with the try it and tell us what breaks approach.  I tried it and it broke but it was a start. Later, I was asked by a manager, "Do you know this VMware stuff?". After saying yes, I found myself discussing server virtualization using ESX 1.5.2 and everything snowballed from there. I have written three books on virtualization and have a few more planned. I am now an independent consultant in the virtualization and cloud computing space, trying to find time to get all my little projects completed.  I consider part of my job, to give back to the community that spawned my career where every day the technology landscape changes with something new and interesting.

What would you tell someone who wanted to get a job like yours to do?

Learn what you can, keep an open mind, and when presented the opportunity leap. I find the key to being a virtualization and cloud architect is knowledge. Not only what is learned, but what you can bring to the table from current and past work. You have to be a self-starter to be an independent and always aware of your brand, namely yourself. I believe giving back to the community is crucial to this brand.

Twitter Handle: @sixfootdad

Blog URL: http://damiankarlson.com

How did you get into IT in  the first place

I've been working in and around IT for over 10 years now. I started in technical sales but got my first experiences in "hands-on" IT about seven years ago. I'd gone back to school as an adult to get an Associates in Computer Networking, and that opened up an opportunity to start working as a software tester for a 3rd party QA & testing company in Austin, TX. From there, I moved into hardware testing of various servers & storage subsystems, and eventually led a team of hardware and software testers that was responsible for testing minor and major hardware & firmware revisions on a major manufacturer's blade servers.

How did you get into working with VMware and becoming a 2011 vExpert?

I first started working with VMware about 3 years ago. I'd inherited a small VMware server/isolated ESXi environment (on old Compaq whiteboxes, no less), and had the opportunity to lead a major VMware implementation. My team built a number of large VMware clusters and adopted a "virtualization first" policy. Anything new that needed to be deployed went on VMware (where applicable, of course), and anything existing was converted to VM.

I started blogging about a year ago, and focused on how to automate a large scale VMware implementation. I fell in love with PowerCLI, and wrote all that I could about leveraging it for things like standardized ESXi deployments, automating host remediation in clusters without DRS, automating VMware licensing assignments, etc. It was due to my blogging efforts that I was recognized as a vExpert in 2011.

What would you tell someone who wanted to get a job like yours to do? 

I think the most important thing is a true love of technology, and also a clear understanding of how appropriate applications of technology can benefit the business side "of the house". Technology is great, but in a vacuum, it serves no purpose. Its purpose is to enable, improve, and serve as the vehicle for a company's ability to be successful.

Secondly, I'm a strong believer in social media. Get involved, talk to people that are doing what you want to do, help out other folks who may have questions or issues that you may know how to solve. Most of all, get a true understanding of how your unique talents and abilities can be a benefit to you, your family, and those around you.

Twitter Handle: @Andrea_Mauro

Blog URL: http://virtual-infrastructure.it/

Current Employer: Assyrus Srl

How did you get into IT in  the first place?

I've started (a lot of years ago) with a Commodore 64, but only with my first experience on a PC (with MS-DOS) I understand that this passion would also be my possible work area. During University, I also played with Linux distributions and this gave me a better understanding of Operating Systems and networking. Things are really change. Now start in IT is simpler and cheaper (I remember how expensive my first PC was and how difficult it was to find good books or good documentations).

How did you get into working with VMware and becoming a 2011 vExpert?

As most people I've started of course with VMware Workstation and honestly not with the ESX 1.0 (I remember that was not possible, at least in my

Country) to have an evaluation or trial version.

My first virtualization project (for academic purposes) was building a virtual honeynet with Linux UML (it was the end of 2001). My first virtualization project based for a production system virtualization solution was instead with VMware ESX 2.5.

After that I've follow a lot of virtualization projects and recently (around three ago) I've started also to give some contribution to the VMTN Community. This probably has open new perspectives, outside the limits of my Country and my native language (that isn't English). For example, I've tried to applied with success to the VCDX3 path and also to vExpert 2010 and 2011.

What would you tell someone who wanted to get a job like yours to do?

In the IT field and especially in the virtualization area there is a lot to do. The required knowledge is quite huge, but worst (or better. it depends) there are a lot of changes so you cannot stand still. You have always to learn new things.

For those reasons I also think that in this kind of job the collaborations is really important. You can be great, but you can greater in a group of good people.

Client systems check the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) on the SSL server certificate, so that if the load balancer uses a certificate with a different name