What you need for this book
As this book is technical in nature, you need to have a basic understanding of the following concepts:
- VMware vSphere
- Hypervisor basics
- vMotion
- Cluster capabilities such as HA, DRS, and DPM
- Active Directory
- Types of authentication
- Encryption with certificates
- Group policy objects
- Folder redirection
- Roaming profiles
- DNS
- Virtual machine basics
- VMX and VMDK files
- Snapshots
- VMware tools
- Networking
- VLANs
- DHCP
- Port types
- Routing
- LAN and WAN basics