About
About me : I am Abbed Sedkaoui, worked on VMware virtualization, since GSX and ESX 3, and before that on Virtual Server and VirtualPC from Connectix who also first made Virtual Game Station (VGS a PSX that holded in a floppy disk 1.41MB) back in 1998, all the way up to today latest VCF VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure VMware Cloud SDDC is based on.
In my views "it" (the Cloud) all started since 2008 with the advent of AMD "Nested Pages" and then 2009 Intel "Extended Pages Tables" in their processor became the trends for alot of networking devices: for Router i think VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding), for Firewall (Context), for Switch (VSI Virtual Switching Instance).
And Hopefully for us labbers we get since then the ability to deploy End2End all virtualized infrastructure :) Following William Lam since around that times. Fast forward 2023 successfully deploying VCF, i am certified VCP-VMC VCP-VCF Administrator. As of May 6, 2024 Good News, All VMware by Broadcom Certification Exams are Requirement FREE (wich means no paid course only the exams fee of 250$).
As of 2025 50% off VCP exam with VMUG Advantage Membership and also free as vExpert we get free VMUG Advantage Membership so all in place if you want dive into VMware starting blogging right now and apply for vExpert from 15th December to 15th January every Year, an appeal is possible and a second half Year vExpert application will again give you the chance to be part of this wonderful community.
Starting 2026 with exciting VCF 9 Betas or AI vExpert Subprogram scheduled.
Proudly part of VMware vExpert community since 2023 for my "significant contributions to the VMware virtualization and cloud community" as stated by the former CEO in the certificate.
About this site : i'll share what worked for me when facing issues and "the problem solving critical thinking mindset" (i know.. its a mouthful :) used to document root cause analysis.Please don't mind the rusticness of this site as i literally created this from scratch on AWS in a few hours.
Transitioned from a One-Page single index.HTML file on AWS S3 with Route53,
(recently i added ACM HTTPS certificate and Cloudfront CDN), to Hugo: an open source static site generator with theme "hugo-clarity" based on VMware by Broadcom Clarity Design System and theme "hugo-photoswipe5-gallery" to swipe easily pictures.
Feel free to flip back and forth the Night color theme switch in the top right corner whenever you like, and make use of the search bar, and the categories or tags or series, and the to-top button, all of which may ease your browsing experience. There's an RSS feeds if you want to subscribe in the top right corner. And you'll find my Github - Twitter - Linkedin contacts as well. (Note at the attention of HR in France,Toulouse i'm still unemployed, feel free to get in touch.) Clicking on top center STRIVEVIRTUALLY will bring you to home. For the logo i used this site to generate it.
Cheers,