vCoreDump is the personal blog of Syed Faisal Akber.  Faisal is a Sr. Escalation Engineer at VMware, Inc.  He has over 7+ years experience in Virtualization and 14+ years experience in IT.  He has a B. Sc. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Toronto.  Faisal also has the following IT certifications:

• VCP 2
• VCP 3
• VCP 4
• VCP 5
• VCAP4-DCD

Faisal likes to keep up-to-date on as many aspects of Virtualization and Cloud Computing as possible.  However, his specialty is understanding faults.  That is, server crashes and hangs.  This blog will cover many topics but you may find that a lot of the articles will be related to planning for and handling faults.

You may find Faisal delivering presentations at various venues on a number of topics.  He has presented at VMworld 2006, VMworld 2007 and VMworld 2008, among other venues.

If you would like to contact Faisal, the best way is to contact him via Twitter @vCoreDump.