In this presentation given on April 7, 2015, at the Austin VMUG, I provide a view of what it means to be a "VMware professional," and how VMware professionals need to grow, evolve, & change in order to continue to add value to their organizations.
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What it Means to be a VMware Pro
1. What does it mean to be a
VMware pro?
A look at the evolution of the role of the VMware professional
Scott Lowe
http://blog.scottlowe.org
2. Before we begin
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9. VMware's technologies have
also evolved
☞ It's not just about VMs anymore
☞ Multiple forms of virtualization: not just compute, but storage
and network virtualization as well
☞ Products to help with management/operations, automation/
orchestration, and security
☞ It's about the software-defined data center
10. So what makes VMware
pros think we don't have to
change and evolve?
11. ❝If you dislike change, you're
going to dislike irrelevance even
more.❞
—Eric Shinseki
13. The data center architect is
the next step
☞ Just as VMware's value and technologies are evolving, so too do
VMware professionals need to evolve
☞ VMware professionals are well-suited to evolve into the data
center architects
☞ VMware sits at the center of the software-defined data center
and touches almost every other area
14. ❝The only true wisdom is in
knowing you know nothing.❞
—Socrates
15. We must constantly be
learning
☞ Business drivers and business value
☞ Storage
☞ Networking
☞ Security
☞ Automation/orchestration
16. Practical steps to getting
started
➀ Model some DevOps principles
➁ Expand your technical horizons
➂ Think systems, not components
➃ Talk to the business
18. Model some DevOps
principles
☞ Look beyond the hype (DevOps isn't just for Dev and Ops)
☞ A key tenet of DevOps is breaking down barriers between
groups to improve the business value of IT
☞ DevOps principles are valuable to any IT pro
☞ CAMS (Culture, Automation, Measurement/Metrics, Sharing)
19. Expand your technical
horizons
☞ Linux
☞ Automation/orchestration tools
☞ New storage architectures
☞ Network virtualization
☞ Don't get distracted by the new shiny!
20. Think systems, not
components
☞ Think at a systems level: your data center is a system, not a
bunch of individual technologies
☞ Compute affects storage which affects networking which
impacts security which has an effect on operations...
☞ Everything is interrelated and connected
21. Talk to the business!
☞ Understand the business of your business
☞ Think about how the work of IT (your work) affects the
business
☞ Talk in their language
☞ Focus on requirements, not solutions
☞ Say yes, not no
23. ❝No man steps in the same river
twice, for it's not the same river and
he's not the same man.❞
—Heraclitus
24. Thank you!
Be sure to provide feedback to the VMUG leaders regarding this
session.
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Twitter: @scott_lowe
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