So – time for that promised update on my new role in Cisco..
Datacenter Solution Engineer – I won’t give you the complete speil that’s in the job-spec but suffices to say this brings together my background in DC testing and my interests in virtualisation. The headline reads:
TS Data-Centre Solution Engineer – will be responsible for orchestrating the end-to-end solution support of Cisco’s Data Centre Solutions ( e.g. UCS & Nexus Architectures, Vblock/FlexPod, VDI/VXI, Cloud solutions – Private and Public, etc).
So basically – I help to deliver DC solutions which encompass the whole DC architecture. From the R&S side of things (Nexus), end-hosts (UCS), storage networking (MDS), and the virtualisation part (VMWare, Hyper-V, 1000v). There’s a flip side to this as well; I help work to bring the Partners, vendors and customers up to speed on new technologies and features. On the side, there’ll also be some escalation support to the APAC TAC team.
That’s the short version of what I’ll be doing. There’s still a long way before I feel confident in the role though. DC switching and routing technologies are fairly well known but anything that involves virtualisation appears to be moving at the speed of light in terms of development. On my list of things I already have to catch up on: VM-FEX, VXLAN, OpenFlow and Hadoop clusters. I’m putting Scott Lowe‘s Mastering VMWare vSphere 5 on my reading list for this month too.
Next update – some good virtualisation bloggers and tweeters.
