Maximum vSphere: Tips, How-Tos, and Best Practices for Working with VMware vSphere 4

Maximum vSphere™ is the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute, working reference for everyone who plans, implements, or administers VMware vSphere. It brings together proven best practices, tips, and solutions for achieving outstanding performance and reliability in your production environment.

This book provides crucial knowledge you won't find anywhere else, including information about powerful new vSphere 4 techniques drawn from experienced vSphere practitioners. You'll find sophisticated, expert coverage of virtual machines, vCenter Server, networking, storage, backups, VMotion, Fault Tolerance, vSphere management, installation, upgrades, security, and much more.

Author and vExpert Eric Siebert takes the same hands-on approach that made his VMware® V13 Implementation and Administration so popular with working professionals, Whether you're implementing or managing vSphere 4, upgrading from older virtualization technologies, or taking new responsibilities in any VMware environment, you'll find this book indispensable.

Eric Sieberi a VMware vExpert and a twenty-five-year IT industry veteran, has achieved elite Guru status and VMware's VMTN support forums, maintains the VMware information web site vsphere-land.com, and regularly blogs and contributes to many Tech Target web sites, including Searchvmware.com and Searchservervirtualization.com. He is the author of VMware® V13 Implementation and Administration [Prentice Hall, 2009], a past VMworld speaker, and a frequent Best of VMworld awards judge.
Simon Seagrave a VMware vExpert and VCP, has worked with VMware products since the early days of VMware GSX. He covers virtualization, servers, and storage related technologies on his popular blog. TechHead [techhead.co.uk].

Eric Siebert, a VMware vExpert and a twenty-five-year IT industry veteran, has achieved elite Guru status on VMware’s VMTN support forums, maintains the VMware information web site vsphere-land.com, and regularly blogs and contributes to many Tech Target web sites, including searchvmware.com and searchservervirtualization.com. He is the author of VMware® VI3 Implementation and Administration (Prentice Hall, 2009), a past VMworld speaker, and a frequent Best of VMworld awards judge.

Contributor Simon Seagrave, a VMware vExpert and VCP, has worked with VMware products since the early days of VMware GSX. He covers virtualization, servers, and storage related technologies on his popular blog, TechHead (techhead.co.uk).