Introductions all around

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to take the time to introduce myself.  I’m a Network Administrator for a Public School District in RI.
When I first started my career in K12 I was lucky enough to take part in an Educational Collaborative Event.  The hosts of the event were our local Consortium, Equal Logic (pre Dell) and VMware.  I was blown away by the ideas, the theories, and the implementations of the ideas presented.  This was my first taste of VMware glory and the hardware to back it up.

After that one meeting, one presentation, and one moment I was hooked.  I worked very hard to take the time to understand how VMware could help my district out in the K12 sector.  I realized the biggest implementation for us at the time was Server Consolidation. One year later we had installed our first blade server (c3000) with three blades(bl465 g5) on a HP MSA (2012fc).

Things have exploded from here.  Our server sprawl grew and all the sudden K12 in my corner of the world has started keeping up with industry.  Things will only get better from here and grow. I have a motto that I hold true, “Keep Moving Forward.” That’s what I plan on doing and I’m hoping you’ll join me.

Next time around I’ll get into my justification for picking VMware in K12 for my district.  Why not Xen? Why not Virtual Iron (owned by Oracle now), Why not just use ESXi?

Cheers,

Jim P