it_user174999

VMware NSX T/V Consulting Engineer /Solutions Architect at Onebox Solutions
Has 10+ Years Of Experience

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User Activity

Over 5 years ago

Contributed a review of VMware NSX: Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional

About 9 years ago

Contributed a review of VMware NSX: It has allowed our customers to scale/extend their existing IP subnets and spin up new subnets on-demand for new app/web/DB tiers.

Over 9 years ago

Answered a question: Cisco UCS or HP hardware for VMware SRM?

Major enterprise firms I am seeing use Netapp and EMC storage for SRM ...yes I agree to the effect that it takes a team effort to implement and manage SRM DraaS testing for large customers ..it's definitely a niche skill ...netapp Snapmirror and EMC Rpa. On a side note ..I…

Over 9 years ago

Commented on SRM - standard disaster recovery for VMware

Nice article - I recently have been looking at Vsan as a viable option for lab POC. Some DRaaS customers have a need to replicate/recover specific workloads outside of the SRM protected groups so they can control failover testing. In real world I do not see many customers…

About 10 years ago

Asked a question: Cisco UCS or HP hardware for VMware SRM?

About 10 years ago

Contributed a review of VMware ThinApp [EOL]: I found the capture & deploy features very valuable.

Over 10 years ago

Commented on It has done some rearranging of the recovery plans so that you can get better visibility into what is going on during a failure.

Eric - I really like this post. Right to the point. I already see the technical value in the new SRM features.

Over 10 years ago

Commented on It provides us with business continuity and disaster recovery, although it's not fully storage agnostic and there are versioning issues.

SRM is for more higher end customers that can afford to pay for DRaaS. I would think Zerto is much more affordable. For most part Netapp and EMC storage work well with replication. Failover when pre-planned out properly can be seamless recovering some customers entire…

Over 11 years ago

Contributed a review of VMware Live Recovery: The solution allows organizations to have a solid business continuity plan but some research needed for configuration

Projects

Over 10 years ago

SRM DR Testing for Fortune 100 customer

SRM DR Testing for Fortune 100 customer. Involved in high level SRM network architecture meetings to iron our requirements and challengesHeavily involved in SRM implementation for customer and SRM validation UATWorked directly with customer engineers to run actual SRM DR…

About 10 years ago

Assisted top firm in Virtualizing Siebel web app

Assisted top firm in virtualizing Siebel web app with IEProvided high level services surrounding a Vmware Thinapp virtualization project that needed immediate delivery to end client for production deployment within their business units. Virtualized Siebel web app on IE6 for…

Experience

Reviews

Over 5 years ago

VMware NSX

Allows for seamless micro-segmentation and the support is exceptional

About 9 years ago

VMware NSX

It has allowed our customers to scale/extend their existing IP subnets and spin up new subnets on-demand for new app/web/DB tiers.

About 10 years ago

VMware ThinApp [EOL]

I found the capture & deploy features very valuable.

Over 11 years ago

VMware Live Recovery

The solution allows organizations to have a solid business continuity plan but some research needed for configuration

Questions

Answers

Over 9 years ago

Disaster Recovery as a Service

Cisco UCS or HP hardware for VMware SRM?

Comments

Over 9 years ago

Disaster Recovery as a Service

SRM - standard disaster recovery for VMware

Over 10 years ago

Disaster Recovery as a Service

It has done some rearranging of the recovery plans so that you can get better visibility into what is going on during a failure.

Over 10 years ago

Disaster Recovery as a Service

It provides us with business continuity and disaster recovery, although it's not fully storage agnostic and there are versioning issues.

About me

Roger is a Technology Entrepreneur and proven sought after Vmware Subject Matter Expert within the fortune 500 companies. Discipline: Vmware SRM/ NSX/ SDDC

He brings 17+ years of professional technology consultancy focused in SDDC - network virtualization technology SaaS, IT-as-a-Service Virtual Data Center (VDC) migration, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Desktop as a Service (DaaS) & End User Computing (EUC).

vSME Vmware Infrastructure Architect Trainer, Designer and Managed Services Implementation, Management of Enterprise Level Virtualized Global Datacenter Environments

Specialties: NSX , SRM (Site Recovery manager) - Vsphere architecture Specialized Training and implmentations, Lab Manager , Vmware View , Vmware Converter, Vcloud director, VUM, Cloud, Microsoft Active Directory

Virtualization Optimism: Always looking to partner and connect with people and organizations in the virtualization and cloud realms "the movers and shakers in this business"

Certs:
VCP v6 , VCP v5, VCP v4 , VCP-NV , VTSP v5 (Vmware Technical Sales Prof.)
CCNA, NCDA, EMC ISv2 , MCP, Comptia A+

Certifications

Certs: VCP v6 VCP v4 VCP v5. VCP-NV CCNA
NCDA 7mode
EMC IS2 --VTSP v5
MCP
A+

Employers

Plan IT Virtual, LLC
Cisco
Datalink
VMware
Bank of America
VERIZON BUSINESS PRO SVCS
Vangent, Inc.
American Airlines
Eddie Bauer
SIEMENS IT SOLUTIONS INC
IBM
Wilen Media
TheMarkets.com
Johnson & Johnson
Bridgestone
BIC Graphic USA
Essilor
Caterpillar Inc.
TouchTunes Interactive Networks

Education

VCP Professional Training
Tech Skills -Tampa, FL
Dawson College

Interesting Projects and Accomplishments

Over 10 years ago

SRM DR Testing for Fortune 100 customer

About 10 years ago

Assisted top firm in Virtualizing Siebel web app