To get the most out of this book

This book is intended for administrators with different levels of server, storage, and networking experience:

• All administrators can learn network design and storage scaling to manage and monitor hosts in the vSphere environment.
• Experienced VMware administrators can learn about private/hybrid cloud design and deployment in different scenarios. They can customize their designs as per customer requirements.

Download the color images

We also provide a PDF file that has color images of the screenshots/diagrams used in this book. You can download it here: http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/VMwareCrossCloudArchitecture_ColorImages.pdf.

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "Open Services.msc from the run command."

Bold: Indicates a new term, an important word, or words that you see onscreen. For example, words in menus or dialog boxes appear in the text like this. Here is an example: "The syslog service can be configured on ESXi using host profiles, the VMware vSphere command line interface, or the Advanced Configuration options in the vSphere Web Client"

Warnings or important notes appear like this.

Tips and tricks appear like this.