VMware vSphere Essentials

This book is intended for virtualization administrators who want to learn VMware vSphere quickly. It is assumed that you have a basic knowledge of virtualization and the vSphere environment.

Kunal Kumar is an author, researcher, digital forensics expert, and a cyber crime investigator. He has a keen interest in virtualization, information security, cyber forensics, application development, and reverse engineering. Since 2008, he has been working on various projects that deal with invention and/or structuring of security models starting from small workshops to working with Corporations, NGOs and Government agencies. He has completed his MCA, which was preceded by an MS degree in Cyber law and security and is now looking at a PhD in cloud security. He has worked with many leading IT-as a Technical advisor for Dell, as a Cloud Operations Specialist for Orange Business Services, as a Technical specialist for HCL, and as a project manager in British Telecom (BT). He has acquired some international certifications namely Certified Ethical Hacker, Computer Hacking Forensics Investigator, VMware certified Professional, and CCNA, among others. He has trained more than 1,500 students on various technologies across the Indian subcontinent. He is also the founder and acting president of the non-profit cyber welfare organization Ethical Hackers League and is rigorously involved in various social welfare causes. Currently, he heads and runs Something Cool (http://somethingcool.in), where along with his team, he works on new products with just innovation as the key element. He can be reached at http://kunalkumar.in

Christian Stankowic Christian Stankowic has been working as a certified IT engineer for 5 years. His interest in Linux and virtualization technology started in 2006 when he gained his first experiences with openSUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, CRUX Linux, and VMware Server. Since his apprenticeship as an IT specialist for system integration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Red Hat Satellite/Spacewalk, Nagios/Icinga and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server became his key qualifications. Recent VMware technologies, such as vSphere and the vCenter family, are part of his daily work as virtual infrastructure's responsible. In his free time, he works on his personal IT blog and develops web applications using recent techniques such as jQuery and PHP. You can check out his personal blog about various IT topics at http://www.stankowic-development.net.