{"id":4029,"date":"2012-04-16T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vmdamentals.com\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2012-04-16T10:27:37","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T09:27:37","slug":"made-it-into-the-vexpert-realms-for-the-2nd-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/?p=4029","title":{"rendered":"Made it into the vExpert realms for the 2nd year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official word is out: The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/vmtn\/2012\/04\/announcing-vexpert-2012-title-holders.html\" title=\"Announcing vExpert 2012 title holders\" target=\"_blank\">vExperts of 2012<\/a> are being announced. Having been a vExpert for 2011, I know what great people make up the vExpert group. When I found my name on the vExpert 2012 list, I felt honored to be part of this group once again! I will continue to evangelize VMware like I have been doing the past years.<\/p>\n<p>Since I became a vSpecialist working for EMC I have had less time and less access to cool hardware to perform the technical deep dives I love to do so much. I will work hard to put up more of these in the near future! I think I should raid Chad&#8217;s garage or basement to see if I can dig up some cool hardware to use this year. For example, the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/vmdamentals.com\/?p=332\" title=\"Performance impact when using VMware snapshots\" target=\"_blank\">Performance impact when using VMware snapshots<\/a>&#8221; is something way overdue for a revisit under vSphere 5.0 or 5.1 .<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vmdamentals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/vExpert.png\" alt=\"vExpert 2012! Thanks to all for your support!\" \/><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n<strong><font size = 5>Thanks all for your support!<\/font><\/strong><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official word is out: The vExperts of 2012 are being announced. Having been a vExpert for 2011, I know what great people make up the vExpert group. When I found my name on the vExpert 2012 list, I felt honored to be part of this group once again! I will continue to evangelize VMware [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[446,447,449,448],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","category-vmware-news","tag-vexpert","tag-vexpert-2012","tag-vexperts-2012-announced","tag-vmware-vexpert"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4049,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vmdamentals.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}