closed 15 years working as IT this spring, with a further background as an intern in my college NOC in the early 90s.
been working with XenServer since 2011, maybe late 2010. Worked both in private sector academic isntitutuions usually in roles spanning IT and Bus.Admin for academic projects in CS.
Since 2012 head of the IT-dpt in a small newspaper, and as you can imagine, the combination lends itself to a shortage of resources. Not to mention we're in Greece and I;m guessing you've all have heard how our economy has gone down the drain over the last decade.
I'm generally satisfied with XS, it has covered our expanding needs adequately. Less so with XenApp, which we used and semi-abandoned eventually. We have too modest XS pools in production, and a 2-server one in OLD hardware for tests.
plus a small 2-server pool at my homeLab
Beyond that experience in Linux, some BSD, Windows AD, a lot of old school networking and firewalling. Ditto in EMC storage, less so in Netapp.