Who this book is for

This book is for VMware professionals. This can be a VMware administrator, architect, consultant, engineer, or technical support. You may be working for VMware customers, partners, or VMware itself. You may be an individual contributor or a technical leader.

This book is an intermediate-level book. It assumes you have hands-on experience of vSphere 5.5 and vRealize Operations 6.0, and you are capable of performing some level of performance troubleshooting. You also have good overall knowledge of vCloud Suite, Virtual SAN, Horizon View, and NSX. You should also have some level of knowledge of operating systems, storage, network, disaster recovery, and data center.

This book is also for IT professionals who deal with VMware professionals. As such, there is a wide range of roles, as virtualization and VMware covers many aspects of IT. Depending on your role, certain chapters will be more useful to you. The following is the list of roles and the chapters that are relevant to them:

• CIO, Head of Infrastructure, and other senior IT leader
  • Chapter 1, Virtual Data Center – It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized
  • Chapter 2, Capacity Management in SDDC (the two-tier concept)
• Capacity management team
  • Chapter 2, Capacity Management in SDDC
  • Chapter 8, Dashboard Examples and Ideas (capacity management portion)
• Network team
  • Chapter 1, Virtual Data Center – It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized
  • Chapter 2, Capacity Management in SDDC (network portion)
  • Chapter 3, Mastering the Key Counters in SDDC (network section)
  • Chapter 6, Network Counters
  • Chapter 8, Dashboard Examples and Ideas (network portion)
• Storage team
  • Chapter 1, Virtual Data Center – It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized
  • Chapter 2, Capacity Management in SDDC (storage portion)
  • Chapter 3, Mastering the Key Counters in SDDC (storage section)
  • Chapter 7, Storage Counters
  • Chapter 8, Dashboard Examples and Ideas (storage portion)
• Application architect or developer
  • Chapter 3, Mastering the Key Counters in SDDC
  • Chapters 4 to 7
• Enterprise architect
  • Chapter 1, Virtual Data Center – It's Not a Physical Data Center, Virtualized
  • Chapter 2, Capacity Management in SDDC
  • Chapter 3, Mastering the Key Counters in SDDC (first half)
• Help desk and operations
  • Chapter 8, Dashboard Examples and Ideas