Reiterating Why I Blog
This morning I got an email from Linked-In telling me about all the new groups I should join, and since I’m on vacation today and trying not to get too bored I decided to bite. One of those groups was…
Category: Personal
Blog’s Belated 2nd Birthday
JPaul.me Turns 2! I have to admit that this post is a bit embarrassing; I almost feel like I forgot my wife’s birthday in a way. Somehow I managed to completely forget about the 2-year mark of my first post,…
Surviving the Outage
Friday evening Ohio residents got hit by a pretty severe thunderstorm with 80+ mph winds. Needless to say everything was a mess, power was out, trees were down, anything not tied to the ground blew away. My wife called…
What I’m looking forward to at VMworld 2011
With exactly 29 days until I’m on a plane destined for Vegas, I thought I would share what I’m looking forward to the most at VMworld 2011. 2011 is my second year attending VMworld, last year was a great time…
Scale Up or Scale Out, Which do you do? 2 Socket or 4 Socket Servers?
I was talking with a customer today about an application we are talking about virtualizing. The vendor only recommends purchasing HP DL580 servers, loading them with lots of RAM and 4 CPU’s. I personally like the idea of DL380 servers…
vSphere 5 Free Hypervisor = Useless
UPDATE: VMware has revised the vRAM entitlements (it’s now 32GB instead of 8GB) for all of its products. Therefore this post is pretty much void, and you can get more details about the new vRAM entitlements by visiting VMware.com or…
Officially a VMware vExpert!
It looks like I can add one more credential to my about page today. This morning I checked my email and found the email I had been hoping for… confirmation on becoming part of the 2011 VMware vExpert group! I…
My latest non-IT project
Since it’s fathers day, I thought I would share one of the non-IT, family, related projects I’ve been working on. (Don’t worry… I didn’t actually spent time on fathers day to write this… it’s just the power of scheduled publishing)…
Year One … in the books!
Today is the one year anniversary of my first post on jpaul.me. When I made that first post I had no idea of the power and reach that blogging has. The first month my site was online I am pretty…
Introducing Tim Smith
Well the “new guy” at the office has decided to start blogging after some harassing. His name is Tim, and he works with the team at SMSproTech, he has a strong skill set which includes virtualization, Microsoft, and a “can…