Announcement:
Effective March 1st 2010, I am joining the PSO team at VMware as the first Senior Consultant covering the Middle-east region.

Now that the word is out, I guess everyone reading these lines will say something like: “Here we go again, another blogger joining another vendor. The trend continues.”
Well, you might be right at some level. [...]

Motivation

I was having a discussion with one of the large enterprises here in Qatar lately, and I was quite surprised to know from them that they are hesitated to migrate their VI3.5 environment to vSphere because of the associated downtime. What surprised me was not the fact that they can't afford a downtime, I've spent [...]

I was going to just tweet this news, but I thought it is too exciting for 140 characters to handle!
I'm a big believer in everything visual as you know, and I think that this kind of video based training is the way to go for anyone learning about something new for the first time. The [...]

Okay, so I'm probably the last person who wrote his VCP-410 exam on the planet, but at least I've done it with an awesome score! 481 out of 500!
I've been rescheduling this exam since November 2009 due to many factors, but mainly because of the lack of time! Today I had to sit the exam [...]

This is the first diagram of more ESX blueprints to come. Previously I was focused more onto the vSphere architectures as a whole, but there will be more granular diagrams on ESX itself as a hypervisor very soon.
The colors play a major role in this diagram. I thought I should stick with the original colors [...]