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 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:

This is [...]

A Boring Introduction:

It's been a crazy week! A lot of stuff is happening right now at my work, personal life, and my career. For example, I'm building our much-awaited "Private Cloud" at work, using both the ultimate vSphere Cloud OS and the rock-solid IBM hardware that was finally delivered this week. But wait, this is [...]

This is a response to the new vSphere Blogging contest that was announced in the middle of this month. I truly think that it's a cool idea, and I believe that regardless of winning or losing, the excitement and fun a blogger would have during his/her participation is something awesome by itself.
The rules say that [...]

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 [...]