Fun Friday: Milestones & Goals

I will try to write more on Veeam, till date i wrote 12 articles.. will add more this year

This year is a little bit difficult with my personal development plans and goals. I have planned several certifications (Veeam, VMware and perhaps basic Nutanix and AWS certification).

More writing and blogging was on my schedule, too… 😏

Up to now I haven't managed to achieve any of them 🙁. I was very busy at work and we did some successful projects. So, work was ok for this year, all successful. But my personal goals were not. Perhaps in the rest of the year… 😂😂😂

But I will do a little vacation travelling with my wife sometime this year 😎 Very nice after two years without much travelling….

@MicoolPaul I just remembered that you had the DTM, but it's the same for DCV VCP certification. And as long as you hold a VCP,  you'll be able to write any other VCP without the training requirement. So you can also renew the DTM later if you decide to 🙂 But I'm with you; I also only want to certify on technologies I'm working with and have sufficient experience on.

Well the one thing I wanted to do, is getting better at my foreign languages, but that's something you can hardly measure or set a goal for. At least I was planing to speak some Italian in our vocation, which will be hard to achieve given that its already summer and I didn't do much for it 😅 Anyhow it's much better to be proud of what one did achieve, then be sad about what didn't work out 🤓

Thanks was thinking of my VCP-DCV 2020 🙂 the VCP-DTM I’ll be letting lapse, I don’t keep up with that technology anymore and I found myself wasting too much time trying to keep up with the theory but no practical application of it… shame when you’ve studied & invested time in something that you then end up dropping, but you can’t be a master of everything. Like my Skype for Business & Audiocodes certifications, held them all! But I don’t touch unified communications anymore!

Unfortunately I didn't get as far as I had planned. While I was able to hold my certifications and learn some new important topics, other stuff did fall behind. Like increasing my powershell skills or learning languages(English/Italian). The biggest mistake I'm doing is not setting a goal and therefore not scheduling time for a project. Having a certain date until you need to achieve something makes it much easier to work towards it.

I also renewed my VCP this year. While I thought I still had enough time, I surprisingly noticed that my current VCP was the oldest one supported for a renewal...probably the next VCP would have required me to also attend the ICM again 😬

I am now inspired from @MicoolPaul blogs :) 

You should, i would say ! 

Professionally one of my goals is to finish my VMCE certification….still not there yet but I need to do it very soon….should have it done by the end of September.  I’m also going to be vetting out some product offerings such as deploying Veeam Backup for Office 365 as a service provider but using Wasabi for the storage, as well as learning more about and probably deploying Veeam Disaster Recovery Orchestrator.  As for things I’ve actually completed, I had to do some major infrastructure refreshes at two of our locations and with that I finally have CDP replication running, and it seems to be running pretty well with a 15 second RPO.  Quite pleased about that, vs the 4 hour snapshot replication we had in place for the same machines.  And we have our backups now copied to Wasabi immutable object storage.  I do a lot of the immutable backups for clients, but it seems like our internal stuff always gets neglected so I’m happy to be able to put some focus on that amongst our mass of client projects I’m to wade through.

Personally, I’ve started running, mostly to lose weight and get my blood pressure down.  I needed a short-term goal so will be running a 5k next month, and in my training, I’ve been running 3 times a week for various distances.  Last night I planned on running 4.5k but was doing so well that I just kept running (think Forrest Gump) and ended up finally stopping at 10.63k…..but my legs are feeling it a bit this morning, and I’m betting this is just the start.  At least I have the next two days off.

@Chris.Childerhose @MicoolPaul  Well I am working on cert for Hyperconverged Networks ( Nutanix and Cisco) and also Virtualized networks (Vmware). And also putting more efforts on my blogs ( www.thenetworkdna.com ). 

Well done @DerekA on the promotion, and @Chris.Childerhose on the certifications!

@Inder I see you congratulating others but not talking about yourself? Time to brag it up it’s Friday!!!

Your blogs are doing good, Keep it up !

Congratulations