What an employer is looking for in a Technical Role

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So after an interesting North West VMUG event on 12th November, I’ve decided to write my own comments on the state of employment within IT. This is prompted by Neil Mills Talk at the above VMUG event, where he gave tips on super charging your CV, and the industry as he see’s it.

Most of my recruiting experience from the last year comes from a reseller/solutions provider point of view.

From Neil’s talk I gleaned the following;

  • The Market is awash with jobs and not enough quality candidates
  • Cloud is taking off, but not at the rate it was first thought of
    • This may be down to issues surrounding the adoption of cloud, i.e compliance.
  • Certifications such asVCP,MCSA/E, have become the commodity, and expected
    • Advanced/Higher certifications such as VCAP is what makes the differentiator
  • If you are using a recruiter, work them, don’t leave them too it!

So what have I personally noticed;

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Looking back at a VMware VDI Deployment

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My good friend Nathan Bryne wrote a good post about “Do I really need to do a Desktop Assessment?“, which got me thinking.

I worked at a college for around 3 years where we had a 1000 seat VMware View VDI deployment. I started working there just after the college had decided to go all-in on VDI and purchased the equipment, as most of their student machines were getting to 5 years old, and in some areas 7 years old.

The highlights of this were;

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HP-AMS Driver causes ESXi memory leak

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So basically I had a customer hit by a known HP-AMS driver issue (KB2085618), the symptons were as follows;

  • Unable to vMotion a VM to another host, gives “operation timed out error”

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  • If power off VM, vMotion a machine to another host, and then power on, you get the following error “Could not start VMX: msg.vmk.status.VMK_NO_MEMORY”

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ESXi memory leak

This issue is caused by a memory leak in the driver which fills the SWAP memory of the ESXi host, making it unable to response to any requests at all,

For example, trying to enable SSH;

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The Fix

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Veeam upgrade to v8 – Enterprise Manager fails with Access Control List error

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So the other day I blogged about the Veeam v8 upgrade, and as mentioned my Enterprise Manager didn’t work, giving the error;

The Access Control List is not in canonical form and therefore cannot be modified.

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So I logged a call with Veeam to get it fixed.

Error Logs

Basically giving logs such as the below.

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Embracing Social Media in the IT world

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So this domain name was purchased in April 2014, and the blog created at the same time.

I used to teach CompTIA courses, and therefore my main idea, which I haven’t forgotten about, is to create materials (E-books) which are affordable and accessible for those who are getting into the world of IT.

Until I can part ways with my some of my work schedule and other commitments, I have decided to write more technical posts, based around the issues I hit during my working days, and anything else interesting I find.

I think engaging in Social Media is one of the key things to keep up to date with the ever-changing world of IT. And fantastically, you usually get answers quicker on twitter than emailing a support/sales desk!!! Making the engagement from companies who have been embracing social media, using this platform as defacto component that sets them apart from the competition.

Engaging in Social Media

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