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Wednesday, May 7th, 2014Andy’s “Career” @ExpertsExchange
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014One the day, that Experts Exchange enters a new era, with a re-brand and overhaul, and a change of logo! I thought it was fitting for a bit of self promotion and Giga-EGO Boost!
It’s also fitting, that in the last two days, I’ve now entered the Top 10 Overall Experts at Experts Exchange in the Hall of Frame,
I’ve been at the Number 11 spot, for many months, and finally jumped two positions to Number 9.
Experts Exchange Hall of Frame
The Hall of Fame, is a little false, because in the top 10, there are only two really active Experts, myself and Ray Paseur, so that makes Ray No.1 and me No.2, so I’m happy with that!
Also, I didn’t blog about it at the time, but last year, I won the following awards
In November I was nominated an MVE in the Gamma Class
The Tenth Annual Expert Awards
Expert of the Year 2013
Yes, I’m Expert of the Year 2013 – Again for the Third Year in a row!
2013 Expert of the Year
2013 Juggernaut
2013 The Ally
2013 The Scribe
2013 Author of the Year
The 10th Annual Expert Awards of 2013
I missed out on the Titan by 0.02%
| Andrew Hancock | VMware | 52.90 |
| Andrew Hancock | Virtualization | 43.19 |
I’ve now had 47 Articles Published at Experts Exchange
- How to Backup an ESXi installation on an USB Flash Drive or SD card, for security or redundancy(Link) May 8, 2011
- VMware ESX/ESXi Backup Guide(Link) May 9, 2011
- HOW TO: Improve the transfer rate of a Physical to Virtual (P2V), Virtual to Virtual Conversion (V2V) using VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0(Link) January 8, 2012
- HOW TO: Enable Jumbo Frames on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi 5.0) host server using the VMware vSphere Client(Link) January 8, 2012
- HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues and Warnings Alert displayed in Summary status for ESXi 4.1 U2 or ESXi 5.0 after enabling SSH or ESXi Shell(Link) January 9, 2012
- HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues and Warnings Alerts after enabling vSphere HA in a VMware vSphere Cluster(Link) January 10, 2012
- HOW TO: Add Local Storage (e.g. a SATA disk) as a Raw Disk Mapping (RDM) or Mapped RAW LUN to a virtual machine hosted on ESXi(Link) January 11, 2012
- HOW TO: Add an iSCSI Software Adaptor and Create an iSCSI Multipath Network in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 4.1(Link) January 14, 2012
- HOW TO: Add an iSCSI Software Adaptor and Create an iSCSI Multipath Network in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.0(Link) January 19, 2012
- HOW TO: Clone or Copy a virtual machine in VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX/ESXi 4.x or ESXi 5.0(Link) January 19, 2012
- HOW TO: Tutorial Video – Install VMware Tools for Linux on a VMware Linux virtual machine(Link) January 21, 2012
- HOW TO: Add and Connect a USB Device to a Virtual Machine, hosted on VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESX 4.1 ESXi 4.1, ESXi 5.0(Link) January 22, 2012
- HOW TO: VMware Snapshots :- Be Patient(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: Performance Monitor vSphere 4.x or 5.0(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: VCP 5(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: Resize a VMware (VMDK) Virtual Disk(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.0(Link) May 23, 2012
- HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues and Warnings Alerts after enabling vSphere HA in a VMware vSphere Cluster with only a single datastore(Link) June 1, 2012
- HOW TO: Use Dell OpenManage Server Administrator to Create and Manage a Virtual Disk (RAID Array) on a Dell PowerEdge Server with VMware vSphere 5.0, ESXi 5.0 installed.(Link) July 24, 2012
- HOW TO: Create a Bootable USB Flash Drive of Microsoft Windows Server 2012(Link) August 29, 2012
- HOW TO: “Live Migrate” VMware Virtual Machines between ESX/ESXi hosts and/or datastores for FREE without licenses for vMotion or Storage vMotion(Link) September 24, 2012
- HOW TO: Tag and Configure a storage device as a Solid State Disk (SSD) in VMware vSphere 5.0 or 5.1 (ESXi 5.0 or ESXi 5.1)(Link) November 29, 2012
- HOW TO: Configure Host Cache Configuration for your VMware vSphere 5.0 or 5.1 ESXi (5.0 or 5.1) Host Server(Link) December 9, 2012
- HOW TO: Install and Configure VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1)(Link) January 19, 2013
- HOW TO: Connect to the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) using the vSphere Client(Link) January 22, 2013
- HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1(Link) April 26, 2013
- HOW TO: Synchronize changes when completing a P2V or V2V with VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.1(Link) April 30, 2013
- HOW TO: Add a Dell EqualLogic PS Series Array (SAN) to System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 as a SMP Provider(Link) May 18, 2013
- HOW TO: Create an ISO CD-ROM/DVD-ROM image (*.iso), and MD5 checksum signature, for use with VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1)(Link) May 21, 2013
- HOW TO: Upload an ISO CD-ROM/DVD-ROM image to a VMware datastore for use with VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) using the vSphere Client, and checking its MD5 checksum signature is correct(Link) May 25, 2013
- HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1)(Link) May 25, 2013
- HOW TO: Create your first Linux Virtual Machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) June 15, 2013
- HOW TO: Create your first Windows Virtual Machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) June 18, 2013
- HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Windows on a VMware Windows virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) June 20, 2013
- HOW TO: Migrate a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Virtual Machine (VM) to a Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V host server(Link) September 10, 2013
- HOW TO: P2V, V2V for FREE – VMware vCenter Converter Standalone 5.5(Link) October 23, 2013
- HOW TO: Install VMware Tools for Linux on a VMware Linux virtual machine on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) October 30, 2013
- HOW TO: Backup (Export) and Restore (Import) virtual machines to VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 for FREE(Link) October 31, 2013
- HOW TO: Upgrade from VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.1 to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 5.5 for FREE(Link) November 2, 2013
- HOW TO: What’s New in VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.5 (ESXi 5.5)(Link)November 27, 2013
- HOW TO: Select the right answer to “I Moved It” or “I Copied It” in VMware vSphere (ESXi)(Link) November 27, 2013
- HOW TO: FAQ VMware P2V Troubleshooting(Link) December 13, 2013
- HOW TO: Suppress Configuration Issues System logs on host are stored on non-persistent storage(Link) December 18, 2013
- HOW TO: Configure and Replace the SSL Certificate on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 5.1 (ESXi 5.1) Host Server(Link) November 19, 2013
- HOW TO: Enhance the performance “speed up” the VMware vSphere Web Client in 15 minutes(Link) February 5, 2014
- HOW TO: Shrink a VMware Virtual Machine Disk (VMDK) in 15 minutes(Link) February 6, 2014
- HOW TO: Convert and Migrate virtual machines and disks to Hyper-V and Windows Azure(Link) April 11, 2014
The NEW Experts Exchange is almost here… @ExpertsExchange
Wednesday, May 7th, 2014The NEW Experts Exchange is almost here… New look. New direction. Same great tech … Experts Exchange (The Next Generation) is almost here.
Two Days at Lotus F1 Team courtesy of Microsoft & @lotus_f1team @1MikeyT @TechNetUK
Thursday, April 10th, 2014All work and no play, makes jack a dull boy so I was told when I was a little boy!, I had the opportunity to visit the Lotus F1 Team at Enstone, Oxfordshire for a Microsoft IT Camp on the 8th and 9th April 2014, the days were entitled
Day 1: – Managing the Data Center with Windows Server and Microsoft System Center
Day 2: : Journey to the Cloud with Windows Azure: Microsoft IT Camp
Here are a sample of some photographs I took, there are 141 more here hosted at Google.
Two days, I will remember of a long time, I had an excellent time, and learnt some golden Microsoft nuggets, to take back to the Office, so it was not all about the cars!
Thanks to Guys and Gals at UK Technet, and Michael Taylor @ Lotus F1 Team for two great days.
Andy on a Lotus F1 Racing Car!
Lotus F1 Team Formula 1 Racing Car
Lotus F1 Team Steering Wheel
Pokémon Challenge Google Maps: – I’m a Pokémon Master!
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014You’ll need to watch the Pokémon Challenge Google Maps, to understand, and collect all 185 Pokémon!
PS The Challenge has ended, it was for 1st April 2014 only!
Active Masaya volcano in Nicaragua emitting sulphur dioxide gas
Monday, March 31st, 2014We visited this Active Volcano in in Nicaragua emitting sulphur dioxide gas, a little bit smelly!
Just returned from our 25 day journey from Panama to Guatemala in Central America
Thursday, March 27th, 2014
It’s been a little quite on the blog, because we have just returned from our 25 day journey from Panama to Guatemala in Central America.
We visited
- Panama Canal – One of the modern wonders of the world
- Bocas De Toro – Beautiful Caribbean archipelago
- Monteverde – Cloudforest reserve, home of the Resplendent Quetzal
- Ometepe Island – Twin volcanic peaks rising from Lake Nicaragua
- Leon and Granada – Beautiful colonial cities, historically rivals for the title
- capital of Nicaragua
- Roatan Island – Spectacular reefs and stunning beaches
- Copan – Famous Maya ceremonial centre
- Antigua – One of the finest colonial cities in Central America
Here is a taster, before the photos are uploaded to the album, of lagoons and craters, punctuated with steaming vents and pools of boiling mud (Active Volcano) in Rincon de la Vieja, located close to the Nicaraguan border in the Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica.
Cheetah filmed in the Masai Mara – March 2013
Monday, February 24th, 2014Cheetah filmed in the Masai Mara last March 2013, whilst in Kenya!
Simien Mountains in Ethiopia – March 8th 2013 – Gelada baboo
Friday, February 21st, 2014Last years video footage – in the Simien Mountains in Ethiopia – March 8th 2013 – Gelada baboo
The Roundabout, for Andy “The Return to the Mandelbrot sets!”
Thursday, February 20th, 2014When I first started experimenting with computers in the early 80’s, I was fascinated with the Mandelbrot set, and spent many hours generating it on a BBC Micro, later I added a Second 6502 Processor, I then upgrade to a Master 128k with a Turbo Co-Processor, all in the aid of more compute power! (I search high and low for a Acornsoft GXR rom, to give me more colours, and finally got one from Plymouth Polytechnic Computer Science Department!).
BBC Micro Mandelbrot
This week, I find myself with the following configuration:-
- (2) nVidia Tesla K40 (currently the most powerful and most expensive graphics processing unit (gpu), used for compute (no video output!).
- 1 Terra Byte PCI-e Flash Card (SSD but plugs into the motherboard!).
This is a real time, video of calculating Mandelbrot set, using CUDA 5.5 on the 2 nVidia Tesla K40, a little faster than using a BBC Microcomputer!
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