Contributors About the authors Martin Gavanda has more than 10 years of experience, mainly for service providers offering laaS solutions based on VMware vSphere products. He was responsible for the design and implementation of laaS solution in CE region, he has also worked for one of the worlds biggest service providers, supervising thousands of ESXi servers across the globe Currently, he is working as an independent cloud architect, focusing on large infrastructure projects and practicing as a VMware instructor For the past year, he has led more than a dozen on-site VMware workshops. He has created several virtual classes focusing on the VMware vSphere platform, with thousands of students subscribed, and he runs his own blog about virtualization and the cloud I want to thank all my friends and family, who supported me during the writing of the book, and I want to thank all the people around me woho support me in all the (crazy) things I do, with a special thanks to Martina Lupinkovd Andrea Mauro has more than 20 years of experience in IT, both in industry and the academic world. He works as a solutions architect and is responsible for infrastructure implementation, architecture design, upgrades, and migration processes. He is a virtualization and storage architect, specializing in VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Linux solutions. His first virtualized solution in production was built around ESX 2.x, several years ago. His professional certifications include not only several VMware certifications, but also other vendor-related certifications. He is also a VMware vExpert(2010-18), Nutanix NTC (2014-19), and Veeam vanguard (2016-19), and he was a Microsoft MVP(2014-16) I would like to thank my wife and my son for their patience(this book has taken a lot of my free time for three long months), my friends from VMuGIT for their suppo the co-authors Paolo and Karel for their support, without which this book would not have been possible (at least not with the proposed deadline), and Scott S. Lowe his words and suggestionsContributors About the authors Martin Gavanda has more than 10 years of experience, mainly for service providers offering IaaS solutions based on VMware vSphere products. He was responsible for the design and implementation of IaaS solution in CE region, he has also worked for one of the world's biggest service providers, supervising thousands of ESXi servers across the globe. Currently, he is working as an independent cloud architect, focusing on large infrastructure projects and practicing as a VMware instructor. For the past year, he has led more than a dozen on-site VMware workshops. He has created several virtual classes focusing on the VMware vSphere platform, with thousands of students subscribed, and he runs his own blog about virtualization and the cloud. I want to thank all my friends and family, who supported me during the writing of the book, and I want to thank all the people around me who support me in all the (crazy) things I do, with a special thanks to Martina Lupínková. Andrea Mauro has more than 20 years of experience in IT, both in industry and the academic world. He works as a solutions architect and is responsible for infrastructure implementation, architecture design, upgrades, and migration processes. He is a virtualization and storage architect, specializing in VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and Linux solutions. His first virtualized solution in production was built around ESX 2.x, several years ago. His professional certifications include not only several VMware certifications, but also other vendor-related certifications. He is also a VMware vExpert (2010-18), Nutanix NTC (2014-19), and Veeam Vanguard (2016-19), and he was a Microsoft MVP (2014-16). I would like to thank my wife and my son for their patience (this book has taken a lot of my free time for three long months), my friends from VMUG.IT for their support, the co-authors Paolo and Karel for their support, without which this book would not have been possible (at least not with the proposed deadline), and Scott S. Lowe for his words and suggestions. |||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||