Virtualization, Cloud, Infrastructure and all that stuff in-between

My ramblings on the stuff that holds it all together

About

I am Simon Gallagher, I work for Microsoft as a Technical Program Manager for the Azure Confidential Compute product

I am based in the UK (yes, near ye-olde Londinium) I have two small human children at present and I like fast cars and cycling although none of them are particularly compatible, I am a compulsive techie/geek and to prove it I am building a temple of geek in my garden where I can worship without disturbing my family* – read about it here.

This is my blog, it’s not a corporate outlet and all opinions expressed are entirely my own – if you want to contact me, feel free to leave a comment, email me at simon.gallagher@LanSolve.com or via my twitter account

During my career I have worked mainly with Microsoft & VMware technologies although I am conversant with other flavours of OS and tech, particularly Linux and Open Source projects.

My official biography says the following…

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Infrastructure Architect with pre and post-sales experience specialising in cloud, virtualization and server based computing.

Experience across a wide variety of industries and proven record of on-time and on-budget multi-million pound project delivery using both traditional and agile methodologies. Simon is calm under pressure and takes a pragmatic approach to complex problems or politics, he can successfully engage and build confidence with all levels of a business from operations staff to C-level.

* They don’t mind that much, really – but I need more space!

** Standard disclaimer applies not use internally, your mileage may vary etc. etc.

Standard “I’m a blogger who went to work for a vendor, but I’m not a number, I’m a free-man” disclaimer..

This is NOT an official Microsoft blog, it is my own space on the Internet and all opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not necessarily those of Microsoft or any of it’s partners, customers or subsidiaries.

I can’t discuss specifics of customer implementations without prior agreement nor can I discuss/divulge/hint/suggest upcoming products so please don’t ask me to as refusal often offends and your account manager is a much better target 🙂

10 responses to “About”

  1. Rene June 5, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Hi,

    I did see esx 4.0 can be run inside esx 4.0 I would like to ask is it possible to run 64-bit nested VM’s under this ESX 4.0 installation or only 32-bit nested VM’s ?

    Kind regards,
    Rene

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  4. Charlie Gautreaux June 12, 2010 at 3:40 am

    Simon –

    Thanks for coming out to the Carolina VMware User Summit! Shoot me an email some time. Maybe you want to speak next year? 🙂

    Charlie Gautreaux
    @chuckgman

    Reply

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  9. Julius (@juliuspiv) October 25, 2011 at 12:43 pm

    Hey there – I’m actually reaching out to you based on a comment you left here http://www.hypervizor.com/2009/07/vsphere-in-a-box-a-virtual-private-cloud-blueprint/ about the “Virtual machines in the same Fault Tolerance pair cannot be on the same host” error seen when enabling FT for a VM. I’ve run into the same issue but I’m not seeing where I may have mis-configured something. Care to expound on your response on the page above? Much appreciated!

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