The Sound of Tech To Come... A Veeam Podcast

Episode 46 - Interviewing Tips for IT Pros

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts and Simone Bennett co-hosts Karalyn Brown. Karalyn writes the Interview IQ blog and is one of the best resources on all aspects of the career process. Karalyn is also an influencer in social media and all things HR. Based in Sydney, Australia she also is the co-author of “What do employers really want?”.

This is Karalyn’s first appearance on our podcast and we’ve catered the “Three Views from You” for her career experience.

Episode 45 – vSphere 5 Storage Potpourri

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts Christian Mohn. Christian is a podcaster, blogger and IT pro based in Norway. Christian is a co-host of the vSoup podcast as well as a blogger at vNinja.net. Christian and Rick talk about a number of the smaller features about vSphere 5’s storage capabilities. Of note in the podcast is a recent collection of tips that Christian has shared to monitor and administer remote VMware installations in a Veeam webinar and whitepaper.

This is Christian’s first appearance on the podcast and he is in the hotseat for “Three Views from You.”

Episode 44 - Hyper-V Lessons Learned

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again hosts Femi Adegoke. Femi is an IT Director for a California company in the health care industry. Rick and Femi talk about storage, virtual machine provisioning and other Hyper-V tips that go along with the journey; especially for someone who may be more familiar with other virtualization technologies. Mentioned in this podcast is a recent Veeam blog post on nesting Hyper-V VMs on ESXi or VMware Workstation 8.

Episode 43 – Let’s get organized!

In this episode, Rick Vanover once again welcomes Simone Bennett. Simone is an IT professional based in Brisbane, Australia. There she also contributes to the AUTechHeads community. Simone is known for being very organized, and that is the theme of this episode. Simone has five easy tips to make IT pros more organized and effective in their daily tasks.

Special Episode – VMTN Subscription

In this episode, we open the microphone to members of the virtualization community. Guests include Josh Atwell, Kelly Culwell, Justin Paul, Chris Wahl, Michael Poore and Jason Perlow. Both Josh and Michael have written blog posts on the topic, and this podcast allows each of these community members to explain their vision of a VMTN subscription in their own words.

Episode 42 - VCP5 and change controls

In this episode, Rick Vanover welcomes back Greg Stuart. Greg is based in Arizona and writes the vDestination blog. Greg also contributes to sites such as Petri, where he wrote an excellent blog post recently on the VCP5 exam. Rick and Greg talk about the VCP5 exam for vSphere professionals as well as the experience that goes with become a certified virtualization professional. Other topics include change control tips to navigate within a virtual world.

Episode 41 - Pratical tips to writing an internal SLA

In this episode, Rick Vanover hosts and Simone Bennett co-hosts Hayden McManus. Hayden has a leadership role for both the AU Techheads site and his professional responsibilities at CommIT. Topics discussed include how an internal Service Level Agreement (SLA) should be drafted, what to look out for and how to communicate this to your organization. This is Hayden's first time on the show, so he is on the hot seat for "Three Views from You."

Episode 40 - VMworld, vSphere 5 and other stuff

In this episode, Rick Vanover welcomes Douglas Carson. While Doug wasn't able to attend VMworld in Copenhagen, many things caught his interest last week. Rick and Doug talk about some of the news and events related to VMworld which focuses around vSphere 5, dubbed by Doug as the "storage release." Other topics of discussion include Distributed Power Management (DPM) and advanced nesting of hypervisors. Two good blog posts for nesting hypervisors comes from William Lam and Ricky El-Qasem were mentioned in this episode. Tune in!