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Christopher Lewis

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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.
Current Role: Lead Solution Engineer - Cloud Management @ VMware
vExpert Status: 2016-2023, VSAN 2018-2019, Cloud, Cloud Management 2019-2023, NSX 2017-2019

Community Speaking

2024

  • VCF Automation: What’s New? - UK VMUG UserCon (November)
  • Certification Update: VCF and VVF Exams are Go! - UK VMUG UserCon (November)

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

2019

  • vSphere Optimization Assessment for Partners (internal)

2018

2017

Certifications

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

VMware

Subject Matter Experts
Milestones
Skill(s)
Specialism(s)
Cloud Management
Datacenter Virtualisation
Network Virtualisation

Microsoft

Skills / Certifications
Legacy
Azure AI
Azure Infrastructure
Other Badges

Professional Memberships

Recent Posts:
  • Creating a Custom Resource Action - Part 1: Getting Started & API Discovery
  • Operating a Private Cloud - Part 3: Creating a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Automation
  • Operating a Private Cloud - Part 2: Creating a Pricing Card in VMware Aria Operations
  • Operating a Private Cloud - Part 1: Understanding Pricing Cards in VMware Aria
  • Zero2Hero - Using Aria Automation to Deploy Multiple Machines with Multiple Disks - Part 5

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