Articles by Doug Baer
Doug Baer is a Principal Consultant and leader of the Virtualization Practice at IT Partners in Phoenix, AZ. He has held technical positions in the software development, education, government, financial, and consulting fields where his job responsibilities have included training, lab management and architecture of directory services, network and storage infrastructure solutions. In his current role, Doug works with customers to architect, upgrade, and expand their virtual infrastructures which frequently includes the implementation of multisite storage networks and array replication for disaster recovery. Doug has been involved with VMworld since 2005 as a session presenter (2005-2007) and a contributor to the Perl and Powershell scripting labs (2008-2009). Doug holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Arizona in Tucson, is a regular contributor on the VMTN forums in between customer engagements and is VCDX # 19.
VMware throws a good party, but maybe I’m getting old. A week of late nights ‘networking’ and catching up with old friends takes its toll. Couple that with hours of PowerPoint slides each day, and you’ve got a bunch of…
Doug Baer outlines VMworld Day 3 sessions, including: How to get from a VMware cluster to cloud? Infrastructure Technologies to Long Distance VMotion – What Is “VM Teleportation”?, Next Generation VM Storage Solutions with vStorage API for Array Integration…and more
I hope people are starting to see VMware’s grand vision: this is more than driving utilization of the hardware above 5-10%. Now that we have a standardized platform for the guests to run on, we …
Doug Baer shares his notes of interest from todays sessions: VMware keynote, Session MA7140: vCloud Architecture Design Strategies and Design Considerations, Session: MA8649: VMware vCenter Configuration Manager: Our Foundation for Compliance in the Private Cloud……and more
Getting started today and I’ve noticed a distinct lack of seats…
This year VMware has opted to forgo registering for sessions and instead initiate a fun game of musical chairs. No registering means…
Doug Baer shares pictures and notes from VMworld 2010:
VMworld 2010 Registration was pretty painless. Since I arrived before the official 2pm opening of registration, I got to stand in line. However, the process of hitting a…
