Duncan Epping

I'm the Datacenter Practice Lead for EMEA and a Senior consultant at VMware.

I'm the main author and owner of the leading VMware/Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com and co-author of the "vSphere Quick Start Guide" and "Deploying Virtual Infrastructure with VMware" which will soon be published by Usenixe/Sage.

I'm a VMware Certified Design Expert(Number 7 worldwide and the first in Europe), MCSE on Windows 2003(Security), MCTS Windows Server 2008, Citrix CCA PS4 and a VMware VCP VI3. My main interest is consolidation and virtualization of Servers, Applications and/or Services. Mainly implementing VMware VI3 / vSphere / VCB / SRM, troubleshooting VMware problems, VMware health checks, Designs and Design Reviews.

Duncan Epping’s Specialties:

Virtualization architecture. Increasing service and server availability through consolidation and virtualization.

Duncan Epping’s Experience

Datacenter Practice Lead EMEA and Senior Consultant

VMware

(Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

I'm the Datacenter Practice Lead for EMEA and a Senior Consultant working for VMware Professional Services.

My main focus is designing enterprise level solutions. Specialized in VMware vSphere, VI3, BCDR(SRM), VCB and virtualization in general.
Moderator

VMware Community Forums(VMTN)

(Public Company; Computer Software industry)

2008 — Present (2 years )
Blogger

Yellow-Bricks.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

Yellow-Bricks.com is my personal blog which mainly deals about virtualization and is mostly VMware related.

Technical troubleshooting articles, news facts, patch announcements, random thought / tips and tricks is what you can expect. Yellow-Bricks.com has been recognized as one of the top 3 virtualization blogs by multiple authors.
Editor and founder

AsIce.net

(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

1997 — December 2008 (11 years )

Started MOW-Zine.com in 1997. Merged with Back To Back and OppositeZine around 2003 into AsIce.net, which is Europe's largest Hardcore/Punk e-zine(8000+ members). Main responsibilities writing interviews and reviews, taking care of contacts in the music industry, managing an e-zine and message board.
Senior Consultant Virtualization

Ictivity

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Senior Consultant VMware / Xensource / Virtual Iron...
System Engineer

IAK Verzekeringen

(Insurance industry)

September 2003 — March 2007 (3 years 7 months)

System management Windows 2000 / 2003 servers on VMWare ESX 2.5.X and ESX 3.0.1. (50+ Servers virtualized on 8 Dell Blade servers with a EMC/Dell branded CX300 SAN), Citrix Presentation Server 4, Active Directory, Tivoli Storage Manager and more...
Consultant

PerfectView BV

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 6 months)

Lotus Notes/Domino, Windows and Security consultancy for IT&M which recently merged with Perfect View
System Engineer Nordic/Benelux

Broadvision

(Public Company; BVSN; Computer Software industry)

January 2001 — February 2002 (1 year 2 months)

Windows system management for the Benelux and Nordic region. (Active Directory / Exchange / Backup etc.)
System Engineer

Oracle Nederland

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ORCL; Computer Software industry)

September 1994 — January 2001 (6 years 5 months)

System Engineer(IT Department), main responsibility Windows Servers/Windows Domain, Sun Solaris and Desktop Imaging.
System Manager

Centric

(Computer & Network Security industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

Network and System(desktop, servers and networking) engineer.
Allround Engineer

Net-Consult ICT Groep

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1992 (2 years )

Worked for ViewData which was kind of the precursor of Net-Consult ICT Groep. Sales, consultancy and installation of hard- and software were my main tasks.

Duncan Epping’s Education

VCDX

virtualization 2009 — 2009

VMware Certified Design Expert
ITIL V3

2008 — 2008
MCTS on Windows 2008

Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist 2008 — 2008
VCDX Enterprise Exam

Deploy, Secure and Analyze 2008 — 2008
VMware Certified Professional VI3

VCP VI3 2007 — 2007
Citrix Certified Administrator

Presentation Server 4 2006 — 2006

Citrix Certified Administrator Presentation Server 4
MCSE Security 2003

2006 — 2006

Additional Information

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Duncan Epping’s Interests:

Work related: VMware, ESX, vSphere, vCenter, Site Recovery Manager, High Availability and BC-DR in general... Non Work related: Soccer, Working out, Running, Music(Hardcore-Punk), My family http://www.yellow-bricks.com