Christopher Lewis

Twitter: @thecloudxpert

Role: Lead Solution Engineer - Cloud Management

Company: VMware

vExpert: 2016-2023, VSAN 2018-2019, Cloud, Cloud Management 2019-2023, NSX 2017-2019

Certifications: VCIX-CMA 2023, VCIX-DCV 2023, VCIX-NV 2020, MCSE, MCSA

Author Biography:

Christopher Lewis lives in the UK with his family and works as a Specialist Lead SE at VMware. Christopher has over 18 years industry experience supporting, delivering and designing enterprise scale IT systems based on VMware, Microsoft and Citrix technologies across multiple industry sectors. Christopher is a big supporter of the vCommunity and regularly attends VMUGs to both present and learn.

Community Speaking

2023

Multi-Cloud - What’s Aria Gotta Do With It? - London VMUG (May)

2022

vRealize Automation Cloud Templates - Decoded - VMware EMPOWER AMER/EMEA/APJ (May)

2021

Migrating from vRealize Automation 7 to vRealize Automation 8 - London VMUG (March)

2020

Everything You Wanted To Know About vRealize Automation 8 - But Was Afraid To Ask - London VMUG (January)
A vSphere Admins guide to Infrastructure Pipelines with VMware Code Stream - Dallas VMUG (August)

2019

vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager - Notes, Tips and Tricks from the field - North East VMUG
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager - Notes, Tips and Tricks from the field - South West VMUG
vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager - Notes, Tips and Tricks from the field (Updated) - London VMUG
VMware Cloud on AWS: Architecture and Design - UKVMUG
vRealize Automation 8: Like Lightning - UKVMUG

2018

VMware vSAN Design - Zero to Hero - London VMUG

2017

Delivering a VMware Cloud Management Platform - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly - (TechUG London)
A VMware Admins Guide to vRealize Orchestrator - North East VMUG

Podcast/Webinars

2023

What is VMware Aria and why should I care? Why multi-cloud management has never mattered more ]

2019

vSphere Optimization Assessment for Partners (internal)

2018

Don't Panic - VMware vSphere 5.5 End of General Support (Xtravirt/Bytes)

2017

Vra Vra Vroom (Xtravirt/CloudInsiders)
Cloud Data Management (CloudInsiders/Rubrik)
Cloud Hosting (CloudInsiders/iLand)

Certifications

Christopher’s most recent Certifications are detailed below. Christopher’s full list of Certifications can be viewed using Credly !

VMware

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Cloud Management

Datacenter Virtualisation

Network Virtualisation

Microsoft

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