A bit of history:
When I began using VMware ESX 1.5 in the second half of 2003 finding other administrators to discuss ESX with was not easy. I recall being really excited about the technology and after a few demos I convinced the city that I worked for to allow me to test it with non-production servers. Before long we had purchased the software and were virtualizing servers left and right, including a couple of our larger production servers. ESX was very good, even back then, but like with any other software I occasionally had to figure out an issue and would have liked to have someone to bounce some ideas off of. A benefit of figuring things out myself is that I was able to get a pretty good idea of how the product did what what it did. The flip side though is that I sometimes felt that I had spent a lot of time trying to figure out an issue that someone else had surely solved before. Blogging was nowhere near as popular as it is today, and finding VMware-specific information was difficult. I would sometimes find the occasional interesting article, but not as often as I liked.
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