Although, the specific implementation we're going to discuss was done at my last position, with a large school district in Alaska. I'm responsible for the infrastructure around our video, print, and web production efforts. I work for our Global IT group, but I primarily support a subset of our Marketing department. My current role is as a Principal Systems Technologist at Oracle.

The community is awesome and ridiculously supportive.

My interest in Unix was piqued by my exposure to Solaris in the military, and since then I've tried to focus my career around all the various flavors out there, it just so happens that I like Macs, and it's been a good niche to be in. I switched to Mac at the OSX transition because I was really interested in the Unix (BSD) foundation. My name is Pete Wann, I've been a sysadmin for over 15 years, mostly in education. Can you start off by quickly introducing yourself and what your role is currently?

Hi Pete, thanks for reaching out on Twitter and offering to share your experiences in managing VMware and Apple OS X in an academic environment.

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