Andy @ Hillhome.org » virtualization http://andy.hillhome.org/blog Andrew Hill's Blog. Politics, technology, all the usual stuff Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:49:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Goodbye Novell, Hello VMware http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/02/07/goodbye-novell-hello-vmware/ http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/02/07/goodbye-novell-hello-vmware/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:50:41 +0000 Andy http://andy.hillhome.org/blog/2008/02/07/goodbye-novell-hello-vmware/ I’ve been severely neglecting this site the past several months with everything going on.  Moving is about my least favorite thing on earth, and as if that wasn’t enough, I resigned from Novell at the end of December to take a job at fast-growing virtualization giant VMware.  Leaving Novell was something I agonized over for many months, but when the VMware opportunity came along, I just couldn’t turn it down.  Novell was a great place to work, and the company was very good to me over 8-plus years.  I will miss many of my former colleagues.

My job at VMware is similar – I’m a Senior Systems Engineer, but now focused exclusively on working with Chicago area customers, which is nice.  No more airline or hotel status after this year!

It’s been an interesting transition so far – down to the little things like switching from GroupWise to Outlook and Exchange, which I’ve never used in a company before.  After 3-4 years of running exclusively a Linux desktop, I’m now having to learn how much Windows sucks all over again.  I’m working on that part – I think I’ll either switch back to SLED, or take the Mac plunge.

You’ll probably see my posts focusing more on VMware and virtualization now, and less on Linux, although I’m proud to say I’m still running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 at home.  Of course, it’s now virtuallized by VMware ESX Server 3.5.  More on that later.

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