This posting is ~1 year years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.
Ausnahmsweise ein Blogpost in deutscher Sprache. Grund dafür ist, dass Claudia Kühn und ich seit Januar 2022 einen gemeinsamen Podcast rund um den Themenkomplex Datacenter, Cloud und IT ein. Eine lockere Kaminzimmerrunde in der wir entspannt über unseren Job, und alles was damit zu tun hat, plaudern.
Der Podcast erscheint alle zwei Wochen auf den üblichen Kanälen, oder ihr schaut auf der Homepage des Podcasts vorbei. Lasst gernen einen Kommentar/ Feedback da, und gebt uns eine Bewertung auf iTunes.
This posting is ~2 years years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.
Its been four month since my last blog post, and the blog frequency was quite low before that. This blog is, to be honest, a giant pile of stuff that has not worked as expected. Okay, some random thoughts or howto’s, but most blog posts are about stuff that failed in some way. That’s a bit “depressing”. I should write more about the fun things in my life
For a pretty long time my focus was on infrastructure. And my focus _is_ on infrastrucutre – Networks, lots of storage, virtualization with VMware. And always full stack: Networking, Storage, Servers, Operating System, always with a little focus here and there. Sure, products shifted over time, but in the bigger picture, my focus was always on infrastrucutre and datacenter stuff. No client devices, no end user support, no managed services/ admin tasks, no leadership. Technical stuff and projects. But my focus continued to shift. Microsoft Exchange for example. A product I really hate. Not really infrastructure. But I’m good at it and so I got projects and stuff to do. Or Office 365. Or Microsoft Azure. And since 2013 more leadership tasks. And since January 2020 I held some kind of a higher management position.
I’m doing much less VMware for the past 24 months than I like to do. Therefore much more Office 365 and Azure. And consulting for Microsoft stuff, transition to cloud, transition of IT services into managed services, or deployment of managed services. I lost my VCP/ VCAP through, IMHO, unnecessarily complicated recertification requirements. That was very frustrating for me. Of course, I learned other things in return.
Companions from the last 20 years are now mostly in management positions. Head of … whatever. Most of them are not doing technical stuff anymore. And they are happy with it. It looks like a typical career path, but it’s one that I don’t necessarily like right now. I’m still doing technical stuff, even if I’m in a management position. Actually quite good, but it also feels kind of weird.
I’m turning 40 this year. 23 years in IT behind me, 25 years to go until retirement. Not even half-time. :/ A wife, three nice kids, we just moved to our new house. Actually everything should be really great, but currently I can’t see a career path for me that makes me happy. And this sucks pretty hard.
So, to make a long story short, come back from time to time. Add this blog to your RSS reader. I hope to post nice content here again soon.
This posting is ~7 years years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.
The year 2016 is coming to an end (thank god…). 2016 was a difficult year. One of my goals for 2016 was to write more PowerShell code and to learn Python. I missed both goals. But hey, at least I cleaned up my Git account.I renewed my VCP by passing VCP6 in the first attempt, and I took the VCP7-DTM beta exam (no results yet). Since I am not the guy who attends conferences, I was not attending VMworld in Barcelona or HPE Discover in London. In fact: I was no at no conference or vendor roadshow, because I had an ass full of work.
My blog got round about 1/3 more page views than in 2015. That way my goal for 2016. I’m very happy about that. Thank you!
I definitely missed my goal to write more blog posts. As you can see, I have written a bit more than last year. But as long not as much as I wanted. I always have enough posts in my draft folder. But I’m constantly wondering if it is worth writing about this or that topic. I usually write about things that happen to me in the job. No product reviews, nothing about architecture or C-level things, less about development, design or how something works. Maybe that’s my problem. Let’s see if I can change this in 2017.
I constantly optimized vcloudnine.de in 2016. The result is quite good. Thanks to Eric Siebert for his input.
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These are some of my most popular blog posts (according to Google). Fun fact: Only one is related to VMware and today obsolete.
This is the seventh year that Eric has organized and conducted the annual Top vBlog contest. He put so much work into this contest and this should be be recognized. I also like to thank the sponsor Infinio for supporting this contest.
2015 was the second year in which I partaken the Top vBlog contest, but vcloudnine.de was on the voting list for the fist time. I started this blog in 2014 so I was on the “Newcomer” list of the contest. I’m always trying to create valuable content. This isn’t easy and often a draft is thrown to trash. I hope vcloudnine.de was chosen because of valuable content and not because voters like me. ;) This year’s Top vBlog poll brought us a lot changes. Eric has leaked some details in a blog post short before the announcement:
60% more votes than 2014
30% more blogs on the voting list
7 changes in the top 10
4 blogs in the top 25 that were not in there last year
2 blogs in the top 25 that were newcomers this year
1 blog new to the top 10
Congratulations to…
“Out of competition”: Duncan Epping (VCDX #007) and yellow-bricks.com for “defending” 1st place. Does anyone doubt it? Not really, right? ;) Congrats Duncan!
I am particularly happy for Derek Seaman (VCDX #125). His blog is a gold mine of content and he’s generating more and more (read his vSphere 6.0 series). Congrats Derek, #7 is totally deserved!
Congrats to Melissa Palmer for winning the “Best new blog” category. Keep on blogging, Melissa!
Congrats to Chris Wahl (VCDX #104) for winning the “Best indipendant blogger” category. Reading his blog is always a pleasure!
Also well deserved: Brian Madden has won the “Best VDI blog” category. His blog is an awesome resource if you deal with VDI!<in/p>
Honestly: That William Lam has won in the category “Best scriping blog” and Cormac Hogan in the “Best storage blog” category was no suprise for me. Totally deserved, guys!
I am very happy to see that some bloggers that I have on my reading list, ranked up in the list. You can find the results of the Top vBlog 2015 contest here. Congrats to all participant and thanks again to Eric Siebert!
To make the long story short…
I’m happy and disappointed at the same time. vcloudnine.de landed on place 133. Not the worst placement for a new blog. But I have missed my personal goal to be placed under the top 100. I’d like to thank all, that have voted for vcloudnine.de. This is a great motivation to work harder and to create more valuable content. Thank you all!
This posting is ~9 years years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.
If you are a frequent reader of virtualization blogs, then you may have heard about the vLaunchPad. It lists hundreds of VMware & virtualization blogs, as well as links to resources and other material. The vLaunchPad is managed by Eric Siebert (@ericsiebert, vsphere-land.com) and he organizes year for year the annual Top vBlog voting contest. This year the Top vBlog contest is sponsored by Infinio.
In the 2014 voting my “old” blog was voted on place 292 of 320. I should mention that blazilla.de had only german-language content. In a community, where english is the predominating content language, this result may not surprise. If you are interested in last year’s results, you can find them here. In 2014 I have started vcloudnine.de, but I didn’t nominated it for the 2014 voting. Instead, I nominated blazilla.de for the Top vBlog 2014 contest. This year the tables turned and I have nominated vcloudnine.de for the categories:
Best new blog (Blog started in 2014), and
Best independent blogger (Can’t work for VMware or a hardware/software vendor)
As always all blogs that are listed on the vLaunchPad are included in the general voting. I don’t have a goal for the voting, but a place between #49 and #100 would be nice. ;)
Some short sentences about vcloudnine.de:
vcloudnine.de is the personal blog of Patrick Terlisten. The site has a strong focus on virtualization, storage, networking and IT infrastructure in general. The main driver of this blog is to share knowledge and write about topics, that I think is worth mentioning. The views expressed anywhere on this site are mine and not the opinions and views of my employer or a vendor.
The predominating topics on vcloudnine.de are VMware, HP Storage, HP Data Protector, networking in general and Microsoft Exchange.
Andreas Lesslhumer (@lessi001, running-system.com) has created a nice statistic for 2014: Virtualization blogs 2014 by numbers. The statistic is based on the blogs, that are listed on the vLaunchPad. vcloudnine.de was one of the 28 blogs, that published more than 100 blog posts in 2014. In 2015 I published 13 blog posts so far. But to be honest: It’s not about the number of posts you publish – the content matters! So if you vote for a blog, vote for the content, not the number of published posts or the author.
Check out the Top vBlog 2015 landing page and don’t forget to vote for your favorite blogs! The voting will start soon!
This posting is ~9 years years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.
The days at the year’s end are usually the time to look back and to draw a resume.
I blogged on blazilla.de for nearly 7 years, but in December 2013 I decided that it was time for a new beginning: New blog platform, new content, another language, but the same topics. In January 2014 I started vcloudnine.de.
Some statistics
Until today, I wrote about 100 blog posts. According to Google Analytics, these are my Top 10 most visited blog posts for 2014:
Since January vcloudnine.de was visited about 90.000 times. I think this isn’t a bad score for a new blog and I hope that it will be much more in 2015. Most visitors came from the US. These are the Top 5 countries:
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
France
Netherlands
Most of them used Google Chrome to access vcloudnine.de (this has really suprised me…). And someone regulary visited vcloudnine.de with a BlackBerry. These are the Top 5 used browser to access vcloudnine.de:
Chrome
Firefox
Internet Explorer
Safari (including in-app)
Opera
I’m curious how vcloudnine.de will develop in the future.
Final words for 2014
This blog deals with my work. Because of this, the final words for 2014 are mainly written from the job perspective. 2014 was also the first full year back in the office, after working for more than four years mainly for a enterprise customer as an Infrastructure Architect. 2013 was a transitional year, but 2014 has surprised and disappointed me in different ways. From the career perspective, I can’t say much good about 2014. I hope 2015 will be better.
On the other hand, 2014 was a successful year: I finished my a degree at the FernUniversität Hagen. I’m a bit proud of this. The majority doesn’t finish the study at the FernUniversität Hagen. Many give up because of the double burden of study, job and family. 2014 was also the year of recertification. Between September and October I passed five exams and recertified my HP Master ASE, my DataCore DCIE, VMware VCP and I also achieved my first Juniper certification. Since April 2014 I’m a vExpert. This award has made me incredibly proud. I got so many positive feedback because of this and it has motivated me in many ways.
I look forward to your feedback. Drop me an email or a comment. I wish you and your family all the best. Enjoy the holidays and we will see us again in 2015.
This posting is ~10 years years old. You should keep this in mind. IT is a short living business. This information might be outdated.
… about virtualization, storage, networking and IT infrastructure in general. Is that really necessary? Yes! To be honest, this is my second attempt. I’m blogging for nearly seven years on blazilla.de. It’s a well-frequented german blog with a strong focus on HP, Storage, DataCore, VMware and other technical topics. Blogging about technology you’re working with is a good way to share, recap and internalize knowledge. Sharing knowledge is a main driver of the scientific and IT community. If you’re writing about something and you share it, you can give something back to the community. So why the hell do I start a second blog? Because I can. ;) blazilla.de is a blog that is mainly focused on the german IT community. This blog is my attempt to get more visible to the international community and give something back to it. I’m not a native English speaker. But I will try my best. I hope you enjoy this blog. :)
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