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 [...]

I updated the diagram (v1.2) to fix a small typo and adjust also a couple of shapes. Thanks to Joshua Liebster & Bert Bouwhuis for driving my attention to this.
I know everybody skips to the diagram so I'll save you the introduction, just make sure to quickly go through the notes that follow it:

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I'm a big believer in the saying "A picture is worth a thousand words". If you don't believe in that, then this blog will never be the right place for you. I think there is a fair amount of my blog readers who had actually visited me in my office, and they've seen how I [...]