I spent three hours this weekend, obtaining a new Certificate.
I now have a Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering – Safe Food Handling.
This is my certificate
Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering - Safe Food Handling
This maybe a requirement in the future, for the preparation and selling jars of honey, but also now beneficial to have if you deal with food preparation and supply, as a food handler for human consumption.
I noticed several weeks ago, AmazonLockers were being installed on Campus.
AmazonLocker on Campus
So I’ve been waiting for an excuse to order a gadget from Amazon.co.uk, to try out this new AmazonLocker Experience.
My Dad has been reviewing and raving about these new bluetooth headphones he purchased from Amazon.co.uk, for £15.
They are called Soundpeats Qy7 Mini Lightweight Wireless Stereo Sports/running & Gym/exercise Bluetooth Earbuds Headphones Headsets W/microphone for Iphone 5s 5c 4s 4, Ipad 2 3 4 New Ipad, Ipod, Android, Samsung Galaxy, Smart Phones Bluetooth Devices (QY7, black/green). I’ll get him to review them, or I’ll quickly do a blog on them later.
I was discussing with my colleague this morning, about what time would my Amazon Delivery arrive, and I received a SMS Text message from Amazon with a code for the locker.
I quickly legged it over to the Student Union on Campus, to retrieve my parcel.
Entered the code into the keypad
As if by magic, a locker door springs open, revealing my parcel..
Locker door opens
I quickly grabbed the parcel, closed the door, and returned to my office.
My Amazon Parcel
and it’s contents…
Soundpeats Qy7 Mini Lightweight Wireless Stereo Sports/running & Gym/exercise Bluetooth Earbuds Headphones Headsets W/microphone for Iphone 5s 5c 4s 4, Ipad 2 3 4 New Ipad, Ipod, Android, Samsung Galaxy, Smart Phones Bluetooth Devices (QY7, black/green)
You can grab a pair here from Amazon.co.uk – Soundpeats Qy7 Mini Lightweight Wireless Stereo Sports/running & Gym/exercise Bluetooth Earbuds Headphones Headsets W/microphone for Iphone 5s 5c 4s 4, Ipad 2 3 4 New Ipad, Ipod, Android, Samsung Galaxy, Smart Phones Bluetooth Devices (QY7, black/green), and they’ve just now been reduced to £14.99, I paid £15.23 (30/04/15)
I’ve spent the last two days, taking down a second hand greenhouse…this is a photograph I took, to remind me of how it looked…
Greenhouse with all glass removed
so I can re-assemble the hundreds of bits I have…later in my garden!
This quadcopter chassis was printed, on a 3D printer, an Ultimaker II, in our office, and electronics and motors were added, and this is Adam flying it, on it’s second flight! I’m running around, trying not to get hit, whilst I film it, for checking later.
This is the fun stuff, we get up to!
oh yes, it crashed, but no problems, we will just print new parts to fix it, and it will be back up and running!
Dzong in Punakha, Bhutan
We spent all day here, at the festival, and had a picnic, with fellow Bhutanese people, inside the temple, on the grass at the entrance, and we shared our food with the local people, and young children, and the food that we didn’t eat we gave to the temple dogs! (at the next incarnation, dogs become incarnated as people in the human realm!).
Good Karma!
Bhutan is a very special place, I’ll remember the people and place for ever, it also has Beautiful Scenery!
Just returned from a month in India and Bhutan, so here is a taster of photographs to come…
For being awarded Top Contributor 2014 at Experts Exchange, my prize, not only the usual T-shirts, and trophies, but also an all expensive paid trip to VMworld Europe 2015!
So it’s not all about T-Shirts!
This is the email from Melanie Spatola, Community Manager at Experts Exchange.
There’s an article here written by Brian Clausen, CEO, Experts Exchange – How to Get the Most Career Value From Social Networking, and here The Benefit of a Global, Online Peer Network, which are interesting reading!
So in 2015, I’ve been Awarded
VMware vExpert 2015 (again, fifth year this year, 2011-2015)
Experts Exchange Top Contribution Award 2014 (this is a new award, but it’s like a supercharged Expert of the Year 2014, or MEGA Expert of the Year 2014, so again four years in a row, 2014-2011)
Microsoft IT Pro New Year’s Honours List 2015
Now you are all probably thinking, oh no not more T-Shirts, my prize and award for being the Top Contributor 2014 at Experts Exchange, is an all expensive paid, sponsored trip to VMworld Europe 2015 in Barcelona.
Snow in the "Shire"!
Second time this year, that it’s snowed. so went down to the apiary, to check on the bees, and took some photos in the glorious sunshine.
Andy's Apiary
The colonies were treated by vaporising with oxalic acid crystals, one week ago, to reduce the levels of phoretic varroa destructor mites, which at this time of year are actually living on the honey bees (Apis mellifera), because my colonies are broodless at present.
The varroa destructor mite was introduced into the UK, in 1992, honey bees (Apis mellifera) have no natural defence to it, and we need to check regularly, as part of our integrated pest management, to ensure the levels are kept low, it cannot be completely eradicated (yet!), over populations of varroa destructor, can lead to colony collapse, it’s also a vector for disease and viruses in honey bees (Apis mellifera). Varroa destructor reproduce by female mite enters the brood cell, with bee larva, just before the cell is capped, and lays her eggs on the bee larva, when the cell is uncapped, out come the young mites. So, no brood, no larva, all the mites on on the bees, so an easy target to treat, hence why we treat in broodless periods, between November – February.
How do we know, they have mites, we use a sticky inspection board, inserted into the bottom of the hive, the mites drop off the bees, and stick on the board, and then we count them! (yes they can easily be seen with the naked eye!).
sticky inspection board to count varroa destructor mites, brownish spot = mite !
a close up of some varroa destructor mites
close up varroa destructor mites, you can see their legs or mouth parts
and I added 2.5kg of ambrosia fondant to each hive. (An insurance policy, to prevent them starving – to help feed them during the winter period), and they are securely lashed down, using hive straps.
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In my previous Experts Exchange Articles, most have featured Basic and Intermediate VMware and Virtualisation Topics.
If you would like to read my Basic VMware articles, they are listed at the end of this article for your convenience.
This article will show you HOW TO: Deploy and Install the VMWARE vCenter Server Appliance 6.0, also known as the vCenter Linux Appliance, or VCSA 6.0.
You cannot trial the VMWARE vCenter Server Appliance 6.0, you must have a license for VMware vSphere vCenter Server 6.0 to download the appliance from VMware. Previous versions of the VMWARE vCenter Server Appliance were supplied as a ready made OVF for download, this procedure has now changed in version 6.0, and a ISO (DVD image) now has to be downloaded.
Download the VMware-VCSA-all-x.y.z-abcdefg.iso (DVD image) from VMware. The filename used in this tutorial is called VMware-VCSA-all-6.0.0-2175370.iso, the build number and filename are likely to change when generally available.
Burn or Mount the VMware-VCSA-all-6.0.0-2175370.iso (DVD image) on your Administration workstation.
In the VCSA folder on the DVD, install the VMware-ClientIntegrationPlugin-6.0.0.exe before you begin. (You will need to close your browser).
Double click the VMware-ClientIntegrationPlugin-6.0.0.exe application.
Click Next to start the installation.
Accept the End User License Agreement, and Click Next to continue.
You can change the program location if required, click Next to continue.
Click Install to start the installation
Click Finish to complete the installation.
Double Click the index.html file in the root of the DVD.
Ensure pop up blockers to no block the Client Integration Plugin.
Select Allow, so the VMware Client Integration Plug-In can access the operating system.
Select and Click Install
Accept the End User License Agreement, and Click Next to continue.
Enter the FQDN or IP Address of an VMware vSphere ESXi Host Server.
Click OK, if a certificate warning is displayed. (this is likely if your certificate does not match your FQDN).
Enter the name for the VMWARE vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 or accept the defaults. Enter and remember the password for the appliance.
Select and use an Embedded Platform Services Controller. Click Next to continue.
Setup and Configure Single-Sign-On. (Remember the password!). Enter a password, for Single Sign-On, Domain Name, and Site Name, I would recommend, using vsphere.local for the domain name, and remembering the password! Click Next to continue.
Select the appliance size.
In this tutorial, we are going to deploy a tiny appliance, but make sure you have 2 vCPU and 8GB of memory in the ESXi host server.
Select a datastore to install the appliance, and select Next to continue.
It will check the datastore for storage space
Select and use an Embedded vPostgres database
Enter network settings for the appliance, we have specified a static IP Address, and a FQDN of vcsa6.cyrus-consultants.co.uk. We also selected an external NTP server for time synchronisation, and enabled SSH.
Review the settings, and click Finish to start the installation and deployment of VMWARE vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.
The appliance is deployed
Packages are deployed
the appliance is configured
Starting Services
Installation Completed. Click the link provided to connect to vCenter Server Appliance via your browser.
Enter your Administrator@vsphere.local username and password.
You are connected to vCenter Server
Congratulations you have successfully deployed and installed the VMWARE vCenter Server Appliance 6.0.
Basic VMware Articles Series:
During this series of articles VMware released VMware vSphere 5.5 and VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5. These articles are also applicable to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0 and 5.5. For consistency, I have used VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.1 throughout this series.
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