Preface

This book provides the framework and methodologies that need to be applied during the initial, planning, analysis, and design phase of the VMware vSphere implementation in data centers.

This book will provide readers with the design fundamentals essential for a VMware engineer and architect, even before they implement VMware vSphere in their data centers.

After reading this book from cover to cover, readers will achieve the following:

• The essentials of VMware vSphere
• The essential skills required to design VMware vSphere management layer
• The essential skills required to design VMware vSphere network and storage
• The essential skills required to design vCloud

Readers will gain a great deal of advantage from this book. They will learn how to design a virtual data center with the given requirement and the key components that will yield great success to business and IT. They will also learn how to convert the industry standards to customer-specific by following the golden principle of the best practices recommended by VMware.

Upon finishing this book, readers will have the skills required to design, build, deploy, and manage VMs in a VMware vSphere data center with VMware ESXi and VMware vCenter Server.