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VCP6-NV Official Cert Guide (Exam #2V0-641)

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I am dedicating this book to my father, who told me when I was still in high school to
learn as much about computers as I could. He convinced me to take a Lotus 1-2-3 class
and later an A+ class! Thanks, Dad!

Elver Sena Sosa, CCIE 7321 Emeritus (R&S), VCDX-NV (#154), CCSI, VCI. Elver has been working in IT since the late 1990s. Elver started his IT career as an intern network engineer in Appleton, Wisconsin, later moving to Columbus, Ohio, to work with AT&T Solutions. Over the years Elver continued to learn more about different technologies and how these technologies could help solve business problems. Feeling constrained and limited working in a siloed environment, Elver decided to become an independent contractor so that he could help provide technical solutions for as many different clients as possible. Elver currently is the data center infrastructure architect at Hydra 1303, Inc. You can follow Elver on Twitter @ElverS_Opinion, or his blog, http://blog.senasosa.com.

I have a lot of people to thank for making this first book a reality. The biggest and most important are my wife, Katy, and son, Danilo. Katy served as my non-technical English editor, reading chapters while having no idea about what she was reading and somehow translating and fixing what she read from Elver to English. They both endured my physical and emotional absence throughout this process, at times encouraging me to keep going when I wanted to quit (did I allude to how hard it is to write a book?). Although at times it looked as if they were more pleased than not that I was locked in my office, their support is what made this project possible.