Musings of a sysadmin
About Me
Well I’m a IT Manager & Network Administrator for a Investment Company (approx 100 staff) which involves not only looking after the pc estate but also all of the server infrastructure as well.
The server estate mainly consists of Windows boxes and a few linux machines. I Currently hold VCP3+5,MCSA,MCDST,MCP,A+,ITIL v3 Foundation certifications and am also Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS).
I am really addicted to studying (or at least keeping my skills up to date and learning new things) although as I am normally really busy outside of work I take abit longer to study than most other people.
I have also signed up to the OU (Open University) to study an academic course as well as the vendor specific ones that I am doing now. Not sure how I will get on with that but its worth a try.
There are quite a few certs I’d like to get under my belt including the MCSE (or maybe the 2008 equivilent) plus a Citrix qualification and a linux one too (not sure which linux exam to look at first).
Out of work stuff I like lots of loud heavy metal, I love watching Battlestar Galactica, The Unit, Ashes to Ashes (or anything with robots and lasers in). Apart from that I don’t watch TV that much. I play guitar a bit when I have the time, used to play a lot but now they are just glorified ornaments mostly.
Dale. Nice site. Very informative. Its clear that you know a lot!
That said, I was wondering if you could offer some advice regarding an appropriate client for the ESXi4 (x64) ? … I’ve downloaded it in my lab and configured it very basically using the Remote CLi with no problem. However, I am unable to find a standalone VI client app to use for configuring VM’s! 
…. ANy suggestions that you can offer would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Dale. Keep up the good work! ~ Michael
Thank you for your kind words Michael, unfortunately I have not have the chance to play with vsphere yet (too busy doing the citrix thing) so I dont really know the answer. I’m sure however that if you contact KIWI_SI over at techhead.co.uk then he would know the answer.
Regards
Dale
Hey Dale
How’s the VCP going? I’ve been cycling through ****** a few times recently, and have been keeping an eye out. Haven’t seeing any rough chicken/children though!
Neil
A brief note of thanks re your post on “The parent virtual disk has been modified since the child was created.”
More than a little helpful.