Managing and Optimizing VMware vSphere® Deployments

Preface

In our experience as consultants, VMware vSphere is the most robust virtualization solution on the market. The technology is proven and the user base is large.

Although the benefits of virtualization using vSphere are many, proper planning is required to gain these benefits from a vSphere infrastructure. This book is a guide to planning, designing, implementing, operating, and managing a robust vSphere infrastructure. The best practices and advice given in this book come from our own extensive field experience as datacenter architects and implementation engineers.

We wrote this book after noticing a need for the above mentioned areas. Many VMware books tell you how to set up and configure vSphere, but few talk about specific and real ...