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Who’s Chris Wahl?

VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX) #104

Data Center and Network Virtualization

Writer – WahlNetwork.com

Videos – YouTube.com/WahlNetwork

Host – DatanautsPodcast.com

Author – Pluralsight.com

Networking for VMware Administrators

It’s a pretty good book

100% of royalties are being donated to the Alzheimer’s Association

It all startedout of frustration

I’m also forgetful

Takeaway #1Having a brain vault is awesome

Negative comments can be soul crushingly horrible

Positive comments are worth more than Schrute Bucks

Inherited a large vSphere environment

Inherited a large vSphere environment

And it used NFS storage … everywhere

In a word: challenging

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Takeaway #2Exploring new territory is both fascinating and terrifying

Collaboration on a blog post is humbling

Driving towards fear has resulted in the greatest learning

Oh, also …… I had an interesting conversation with a VCDX defense candidate who

referred to my NFS content

Takeaway #3Putting yourself out there is a critical first step to greater things

Thoughts, not word counts, are what matter

Independence is a rare and valuable property

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Over 30 hours of my video training content is on Pluralsight.com

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