Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role. Part 2: Junior engineer

This is a Part 2 of  ‘Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role’ series of posts. In my previous post I covered some of the questions which I ask in the first part of the interviews I lead. Those questions are asked to evaluate if candidate has general IT knowledge, and if he… Continue reading

CEE RTE – Regional Technical Exchange 2015

Central and Eastern Europe Regional Technical Exchange 2015 (CEE RTE) Last week I did have an opportunity to join an IBM RTE conference held in Prague, hotel Ambassador (Zlata Husa). CEE RTE started in 2010 and it’s a yearly event, for me it was the first time to attend. Event was… Continue reading

Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role. Part 1: General IT awareness and interest in the technology

This is Part 1 of ‘Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role’ series of posts, which were described in my previous post here. In this post I will summarize the questions I ask when I want to understand if candidate has basic understanding of IT and if (s)he is motivated… Continue reading

Interviewing for VMware vSphere Support Engineer job role: Overview

It happened, that part of my job is to interview a lot of newcomers who are seeking opportunities at IBM Brno, CZ. When I was just starting with this activity, I was trying to search internet what questions were usually asked when interviewing VMware vSphere guys, what a common was etc. Unfortunately, although… Continue reading

Top vBlog 2015 results – we’re in TOP 5 for new blogs!

Thank you! TheVirtualist.org scored in the voting as follows: new blogs – 5th place, and overall – 62nd place (out of 411). Full results in here: http://vsphere-land.com/news/top-vblog-2015-full-results.html The result is very good considering the blog start date (July 2014) and the specific area of the virtualization business the contributors come from. Let… Continue reading

Another step of TheVirtualist: cooperation with virtualizationmatrix.com

I am very happy that some members of our community stepped into close cooperation with www.virtualizationmatrix.com. This site is well known by broad technical community and used by many technical specialists to find the best match for their designs, use and adjustments of virtualized environments. All of that with an… Continue reading

TheVirtualist hosted StorMagic in Brno, CZ

Last week, we had an opportunity to host Nathan and Mark from StorMagic, UK, who came to Brno, CZ, to give us more insight to their SvSAN solution. Roman Macek already wrote about the solution here.  But why am I writing about something that is quite common to happen? Well, first of all, it… Continue reading

vEXPERT 2015 – Congratulations For The Virtualist Team

Yesterday VMware announced the list 2015 vExperts. I would like to congratulate and thank to The Virtualist team for succeeding with 13 members to earn the vExpert 2015. While in the last year 6 of our The Virtualist team were announced in the list. The vExpert program is a non-technical certification where… Continue reading