VMware vSphere Design

Introduction

When we were first approached about contributing to this book it stood out as a particularly interesting project. A multitude of vSphere textbooks are available, explaining every facet of configuring ESX, ESXi, and vCenter. If you want to know how to do something in vSphere, you're literally spoiled for choice. However, in our minds, there are few resources properly encompassing the design process. They exist for very specific features, and some older pre-vSphere works are still available; but little cover the entire design of a vSphere implementation in sufficient depth.

vSphere is the leading industry standard for hypervisors. It's simply the best enterprise solution available today. It has become this popular largely because of ...