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		<title>Career Change &#8211; A Coalition That Actually Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very happy to announce that I will be joining VCE as a vArchitect. I am very exited to get on board with VCE and as I have been a huge fan of the concept from day one and have always made sure I kept a close eye on how things progressed and how the uptake of Vblock <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=906' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Nexus 1000v&#8211;Unable to active Port-Channel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When following the Cisco Cheat sheet for deploying the Nexus 1000v for deploying the Nexus 1000v in L3 mode, make sure one of the first commands you run (or when applying your config) is ‘feature LACP’ without it you cannot activate your LACP port channel. I set up something similar to the above, the port-channel <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=896' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VMware Workstation 8 Licence Give Away</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I’m just so kind and generous, I&#8217;ve decided to give away my VMware Workstation 8 Licence I got for passing my VCP 5. I already have a Workstation licence and although I&#8217;m sure I could find a use for it I thought that someone out there might have a greater need for it than <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=881' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>vEXPERT 2012&#8211;I&#8217;m in, JUST</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 11:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After allot of nail biting and bum shuffling I can announce I got into the 2012 vEXPERT program. It turns out that then the panel went to view my blog my hosting provider decided that it was a good idea to take it down. This resulted in an automatic deferral and with the volume of <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=864' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VCP-510 Success&#8211;Thoughts, Study Methods and Links</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy to say I passed the VCP-510 today. I have to say the VCP exam has become harder since the VI3 days. The VI3 was the last time I took the VCP as skipped the vSphere 4.x as it wasn’t something I needed at the time. The broadness of the technical content that the VCP <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=851' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtualisation Field Day &#8211; Round Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 13:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well after a mental few weeks I have finally got the time to sit in front of the laptop and write up my VFD round up. I had planned to do a daily write up like Rodney Haywood but, like many of the other delegates, by the end of the day I was excused. The <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=843' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VMware vExpert 2012 Applications</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well the vExpert 2011 is coming to an end and the 2012 application process is about to get under way. There was a delay in the award of the 2011 vExperts so I still feel fresh to the whole program so it seems a little odd that the applications have come around again so soon, <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=823' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>VCDX Mock Defence Session</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guys over at VSPECIALIST have come up with a great idea to help people that are planning on going down the VCDX path. They are putting together a mock VCDX defence panel to help prospective VCDX panel attendees to hone there defence and presentations skills. The aim of the Defence Practice Event is to <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=813' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cisco UCS &#8211; Replacing a Copper Twinax SFP+ Transceiver with an Optical SFP+ Transceiver</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 10:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across a customer that had limited space, power and cooling in there datacentre (very few who don&#8217;t right?) but wanted to put in a Vblock but to do so would need to split most of the UCS chassis across multiple racks and at opposing ends of the datahall. Traditionally, when I design <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=805' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Virtualization Field Day 2 &#8211; Silicon Valley</title>
		<link>http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=798</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Owen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m honoured to have been selected to attend the Gestalt IT Virtualisation Field Day of in Silicon Valley. This is my first time to this event, so even though I have followed the Tech Field Days before, I am looking forward to getting my stuck into what will be a long but rewarding few days. <a href='http://vmackem.co.uk/?p=798' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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