About

My name is Vladan SEGET. I’m working in the IT industry as an Idependant consultant and blogger.  I’m currently an Independant Consultant, based in the Bordeaux (Fr) Region.

I’m the owner of ESX Virtualization website which is one of the Top Virtualization oriented websites with daily updates. Over 1 000 000 visitors in 2011 with a 46% increase over last year.

Virtualization of Physical systems, disaster recovery scenarios with fast backups and easy recovery. Those are the daily challenges I’m working on… I’m directly in charge of the whole process. Starting by the design scenarios, implementation and survey after the deployment.

I’m highly interested in VMware ESX and related virtualization technologies since more than 10 years and I’m working in the IT since 1998. To get the the knowledge and transform the passion in virtualization into a real and valuable certification,  In November 2009 I went to South Africa’s Johannesburg to sit a VMware class – vSphere 4 Install and configure. While I was there I passed a VCP 4 Certification exam .

But to be able to successfully implement, deploy, manage and troubleshoot VMware vSphere installations, you can’t take VCP for granted. You must look further. With the VMware vSphere 5 announced earlier this year, this certification is updated now and I’m currently VCP 4 and VCP 5.  If you too want to became a professional cerfitied by VMware, you can have a look at my recent post – Resources to prepare VCP-510 Exam or my VCP page.

I was also honored becoming vExpert by receiving a VMware vExpert Award. And recently confirmed by John Troyer for the 4rd time in a row this year. Read my article - vExpert 2012

Becoming vExpert pushed me really forward in my professional career and also gave me a lot of motivation for the future.

This website – ESX Virtualization at vladan.fr has started as a simple bookmarking website. But with the quality of posts, videos and tutorials added daily, this website, in over 3 years of it’s existence has become a reference of VMware Virtualization Website and one of the Top Blogs on the Virtualization sphere.

I was recently talking to other bloggers and peers during the VMworld Copenhagen 2011 event this year. They were really impressed by the quality of the blog posts and their frequencies.  It’s because I put a real high effort in the frequency and consistency in those posts, which makes my page views grows every months.

I’m trying to present the articles on my website in ‘digestible’ format to my readers. Since I speak 3 languages It happens that there are articles re-translated from French or Czech…. but only to give the opportunity for people who do not speak French or Czech language.

There has been many blogs on the Internet concerning the Virtualization and IT, but not every blogger seems to keep posting regularly. There are many blogs appearing every day, but there are many dead blogs and websites too….

My website was also participating on a competition on Best Virtualization Blog organized by Eric Siebert . The readers awarded the blogger. This year my website finished on Third place in the Independent Blogs Category and Twentieth place over all. With all the EMC, VMware and HP bloggers… this is pretty amazing… -:) Read more about the event in my post here.

I accomplished a VCP 5 Exam earlier this year…. and I was awarded vExpert 2012 – fourth time in a row..

 

Stay tuned via RSS…. If you do not know what is RSS, don’t worry. Me to I did not used RSS, but then I found that it saves tons of time.

So you’ll be able to find videos about the VMware ESX and ESXi servers, I’m presenting also Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology, which is slowly closing the gap…

I have other websites. You can have a look at Voyage Reunion – (FR)- the island where I lived, before my move to the Bordeaux Region earlier this Year. Reunion Island is  French territory close to Mauritius.

You can follow me at Twitter or at Facebook. Tweetdeck is becoming a necessity these days…

If you are interested to some exposure for your company on ESX Virtualization, please visit the Advertise Section of this Website, where you’ll be able to find some guidelines on what is direct advertising and how your company can benefit of it.

If you want to became a Guest blogger, contact me at contact (at) vladan.fr.  If you’re experiencing problems with that e-mail address, you can try the secondary one which is vladan (at) free.fr

I have also launched YouTube Channel, where I present videos I’ve done. I’m using Camtasia Studio or, for the videos made with my new iPhone 4s.

Reunion Island, where I live, became a UNESCO recognized world heritage status recently. It’s a small vocanic island where lives almost 1 000 000 people. As you know, France has many departments on the continent and also Oversees.

Reunion Island is a French OverSeas Department and it’s a part of Europe, of course. You can locate it close the Madagascar and Mauritius Island.

 

You can find some informations in English language, together with Video here.